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VMware ESX ServerVMware ESX Server is virtual infrastructure software for partitioning, consolidating and managing systems in mission-critical environments. ESX Server and VMware Virtual Infrastructure Nodes provide a highly scalable virtual machine platform with advanced resource management capabilities, which can be managed by VMware VirtualCenter.
How Is VMware ESX Server Used in the Enterprise? Ideally suited for enterprise datacenters, ESX Server minimizes the total cost of ownership (TCO) of computing infrastructure by increasing resource utilization, expanding computing capacity and maximizing server manageability.
VMware ESX Server allows enterprises to: - Implement server consolidation. ESX Server consolidates branch office and datacenter mission-critical applications and infrastructure services such as Exchange, SQL Server, Notes and Oracle, running on diverse operating systems onto fewer highly scalable, reliable enterprise-class servers, including blade servers.
- Lower IT costs and respond faster with virtual infrastructure. VMware Virtual Infrastructure Nodes (comprised of ESX Server, Virtual SMP, VMotion and a VirtualCenter Agent) can be deployed and managed with VMware VirtualCenter to transform your IT infrastructure into virtual infrastructure. Virtual infrastructure allows IT organizations respond faster to business demands by providing lower cost IT solutions that are more flexible and consistent.
- Deliver high availability and guarantee service levels. ESX Server allows clustering of virtual machines between physical systems for high availability. ESX Server with Virtual SMP allows enterprises to run all of their mission-critical applications and guarantee server resources.
- Dramatically improve and lower the cost of Disaster Recovery capability. Deploying ESX Server and VirtualCenter creates a unified disaster recovery (DR) platform that allows many production servers to be recovered on a single DR server, eliminating the need for costly 1-to-1 mapping of production and DR servers.
How Does VMware ESX Server Work? ESX Server transforms physical systems into a pool of logical computing resources. Operating systems and applications are isolated in multiple virtual machines that reside on a single piece of hardware. System resources are dynamically allocated to any operating system based on need, providing mainframe-class capacity utilization and control of server resources.
ESX Server simplifies server infrastructure by partitioning and isolating server resources in secure and portable virtual machines. ESX Server enables these server resources to be remotely managed, automatically provisioned, and standardized on a uniform platform. Advanced resource management controls allow IT administrators to guarantee service levels across the enterprise. ESX Server runs directly on the system hardware to provide a secure, uniform platform for deploying, managing, and remotely controlling multiple virtual machines.
With VMware ESX Server virtual infrastructure: - Manage servers remotely from any location, simplifying server maintenance.
- Perform zero-downtime maintenance on live systems without interrupting service.
- Dynamically re-map resources to software to improve efficiency and respond better to business demands.
- Deploy new virtual machines using standardized templates and increase capacity without adding hardware.
- Guarantee service levels with advanced resource management controls.
- Script common monitoring and management tasks.
Key Features- Datacenter-class dynamic logical partitioning for server consolidation
- ESX Server Virtual Infrastructure Nodes run directly on hardware for optimum performance levels and high scalability
- Advanced resource management controls for guaranteed service levels
- Support for a broad range of enterprise-class operating systems and applications
- Support for large storage configurations up to 64TB
- Support for VMware Virtual SMP add-on module to run multi-processor workloads
- Support for industry-leading blade servers
- Management User Interface to simplify administrative tasks
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