VMware Infrastructure
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| Developer(s) | VMware, Inc. |
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| Stable release | 3.5 Update 4 / March 30, 2009 |
| Platform | x86-compatible |
| Type | Virtual machine suite |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | VMware Infrastructure |
VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI) is a suite of computer hardware virtualization products from VMware, Inc. (a division of EMC Corporation). The suite includes:
- VMware ESX Server version 3
- VMware ESXi version 3.x
- VMware vCenter version 2 (formally VMware VirtualCenter)
- Virtual SMP (which allows a guest operating system to "see" up to four CPUs in the virtual machine).
Users can supplement this software bundle by purchasing optional products, such as VMotion, as well as distributed services such as:
- VMware High Availability (HA)
- VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- VMware Consolidated Backup
VMware Inc. released VMware Infrastructure 3 in June 2006. The suite comes in three "editions": Starter, Standard and Enterprise.
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[edit] Known limitations
Known limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 may constrain the design of data centers:[1]
As of June 2008[update] limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 version 3.5 include the following:
- Guest system maximum RAM: 64 GB
- Number of guest CPUs: 4
- Number of hosts in an HA cluster: 32
- Number of hosts in a DRS cluster: 32
- Size of RAM per server: 256 GB
- Number of hosts managed by Virtual Center Server: 200
- Number of virtual machines managed by Virtual Center Server: 2000
Other limitations exist, for example, volume size is limited to 64 TB with no more than 6 SCSI controllers per virtual machine; maximum number of remote consoles to a virtual machine is 10. It is also not possible to connect fibre-channel driven tape-drives, which hinders the ability to do backups using these drives.
[edit] Future
VMware is now moving towards a cloud computing model with their VMware vSphere 4 release.
[edit] See also
- Comparison of platform virtual machines: a list of related virtualization software products
- List of VMware software
- Virtual appliance
- VMware VMFS, the VMware SAN file system
- x86 virtualization
[edit] References
- ^ "Configuration Maximums for VMware Infrastructure 3". VMware, Inc.. 2008-06-18. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_config_max.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
[edit] External links
- VMware Infrastructure product page - VMware, Inc.
- VMware Infrastructure 3 documentation
- VMware Infrastructure 3 demo - YouTube
