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VMware Infrastructure

Transform IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization

Create a self-optimizing IT infrastructure today with the most widely deployed virtual infrastructure suite. VMware Infrastructure 3, a virtual datacenter operating system, unifies discrete hardware resources to create a shared dynamic platform, while delivering built-in availability, security and scalability to applications.

• Reduce IT costs and improve flexibility with server consolidation
• Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and disaster recovery
• Run fewer servers and dynamically power down unused servers - create a green data center

Build a Dynamic Self-Optimizing Datacenter

Build your virtual datacenterwith the product suite that delivers the greatest cost savings by maximizing infrastructure efficiency, reducing operational costs and providing cost effective business continuity. Find out why VMware is the leader in virtualization technology.

Minimize Your Total Cost of Infrastructure Ownership

Reduce hardware requirements, increase hardware utilization, and increase energy efficiency with the highest server consolidation ratios commonly exceeding ten virtual machines per physical processor. Reduce required datacenter square footage, rack space, power, cooling, cabling, storage and network components by reducing the sheer number of physical machines. Increase your consolidation ratio even more by leveraging VMware's unique memory management capabilities and load-balancing features included in VMware ESX and VMware ESXi. Reduce complexity of hardware management through comprehensive virtualization of server, storage and networking hardware.

Improve Application Availability, Security, and Scalability

Eliminate planned downtime for server and storage maintenance with live migration of virtual machines across physical servers and storage arrays. Choose VMware ESXi with the smallest hypervisor footprint and OS-independence for the most secure way to virtualize. Allow applications to dynamically shrink and grow based on priorities with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS). Once you've built your virtual datacenter, create, automate, and test your entire disaster recovery process with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

Streamline IT Infrastructure Management

Streamline the execution of IT management processes with live migration, provisioning, capacity management, and automated patching. Perform management and administration tasks from a single console with VMware vCenter Server. Automate your virtual datacenter for predictable, responsive IT service management with comprehensive VMware vCenter infrastructure and application management services for VMware Infrastructure.

Find the Edition that Fits your Needs Whatever Your Size and Budget

• For a reliable consolidation solution with centralized management and backup capabilities use VMware Infrastructure Foundation.
• Get the benefits of Foundation plus cost-effective high availability for any application running in a virtual machine with VMware Infrastructure Standard.
• Build an automated datacenter creating unprecedented levels of availability and centralized management across your IT environment with VMware Infrastructure Enterprise.

Get centralized management for all VMware Infrastructure editions with VMware vCenter Server, which lets you manage and administer your entire virtual environment from a single console. Analyze physical servers to identify good virtualization candidates, convert physical servers to virtual machines, and monitor the performance and resources utilization of your virtualized environment.

Key Features

VMware Infrastructure 3, the most widely deployed virtual datacenter operating system, offers a number of services that transform x86 datacenters into a shared dynamic utility platform through infrastructure, application, and management services. For a comprehensive list of features download the key features summary.

Infrastructure vServices

Infrastructure vServices virtualize industry standard servers, storage and networks to create a unified resource that can be precisely allocated to applications.

• vCompute services comprehensively and efficiently virtualize compute resources (CPU and memory) and aggregate them across many servers.
• vStorage services abstract away the complexity of heterogenous storage and ensure the most efficient utilization of storage in virtual environments
• vNetwork services optimally align physical and virtual networking

Application vServices

Application vServices are built in services that provide availability, scalability and security (future) to all applications.

• Availability. Lower planned and unplanned downtime for all applications through built in capabilities of VMware's virtual datacenter operating system.
• Scalability. Align resource allocation to applications with business priorities.
• Security. Secure virtual infrastructure from vulnerabilities.

Management vServices

Management vServices (provided by the vCenter family of solutions) provide end to end automation of day to day management tasks in the virtual datacenter.

• Automate end to end IT processes with the VMware vCenter suite of solutions.