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What Is a Virtual Machine?

A virtual machine is a tightly isolated sotware container that

can run its own operating systems and applications as i it were

a physical computer. A virtual machine behaves exactly like a

physical computer and contains its own virtual (i.e., sotware-based)

CPU, RAM hard disk and network interace card (NIC).

How Can I Use VMware Server?With VMware Server you can:

Accelerate server provisioning by building a virtual machine once

and deploying it multiple times.

Easily evaluate software in ready-to-run virtual machines, without

installation and conguration.

Simplify IT testing of patches, new applications and operating

systems by allowing systems administrators to test in a secure

virtual machine environment and be able to roll back to a clean

state by using the snapshot eature.

Re-host legacy operating systems such as Windows NT Server 4.0

and Windows 2000 Server in a virtual machine running on newhardware and operating system.

Leverage pre-built, ready-to-run virtual appliances that include

virtual hardware, operating system and application environments

rom the Virtual Appliance Marketplace.

How Does VMware Server Work?

VMware Server installs and runs as an application on top o a host

Windows or Linux operating system. A thin virtualization layer

partitions the physical server so that multiple virtual machines can

be run simultaneously on a single server. Computing resources

o the physical server are treated as a uniorm pool o resourcesthat can be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner.

VMware Server isolates each virtual machine rom its host and

other virtual machines, leaving it unaected i another virtual

machine crashes. Data does not leak across virtual machines and

applications can only communicate over congured network

connections. VMware Server encapsulates a virtual machine

environment as a set o les, which are easy to back-up, move

and copy.

a t a g l a n c e

VMware Server provides a superior introductory experi-

ence to virtualization with a stable, easy-to-use hosted

virtualization platorm that supports a broad range o

operating systems and hardware. This next-generation

version introduces a new intuitive Web-based manage-

ment interace to provide a consistent management

experience or Windows and Linux users. VMware Serverallows quick provisioning o virtual machines by support-

ing over 30 avors o guest operating systems, includ-

ing Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and various

Linux distributions. Using proven and stable technology,

VMware Server leverages the built-in virtualization capa-

bilities in the latest generation server hardware to deliver

higher perormance.

b e n e f i t s

Provision additional servers in minutes without invest-

ing in new hardware.

Run Windows, Linux, Solaris and Netware operating

systems and applications on the same physical server.

Increase the CPU utilization of a physical server.

Move virtual machines from one physical server to

another without re-confguration.

Capture the entire state of a virtual machine and roll

back to that confguration with the click o a button.

Choose to access enterprise-class product support.

Easily move virtual machines to VMware Infrastructure.

VMware Server partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines.

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V M W A R E S E R V E R P R O D U C T D A TA S H

New Features in VMware Server 2

Expanded operating system support: VMware Server

now supports Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista

Business Edition and Ultimate Edition (guest only), Red

Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Ubuntu 8.04; including para-virtualized mode support on certain Linux distributions.

64-bit operating system support: Use 64-bit guest operating

systems on 64-bit server hardware to enable more scalable

and higher perorming computing solutions. In addition,

VMware Server 2 will run natively on 64-bit Linux host

operating systems.

Web-based management interace: A new Web-based user

interace provides a simple, exible, intuitive and productive

way or you to manage your virtual machines. With the

new VMware Remote Console, access your virtual machine

consoles independent o the Web-based management

interace.Greater scalability and exibility: Use up to 8GB of RAM per

virtual machine, up to 10 virtual network interface cards per

virtual machine, transer data at aster data rates rom USB

2.0 devices plus add new SCSI hard disks and controllers to a

running virtual machine.

Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Support: Properly

back up the state o Windows virtual machines when using

the snapshot eature to maintain data integrity o the

applications running inside the virtual machine.

Get VMware Server TodayVMware Server is available or immediate download at

http://www.vmware.com/products/server

Ready or More?

Explore VMware Infrastructure, the industry-leading

production-ready virtualization software suite used by

customers of all sizes to optimize and manage industry

standard IT environments from the desktop to the

data center. Delivering built-in management, resource

optimization, application availability and operational

automation capabilities, VMware Inrastructure dramatically

reduces costs and increases efciency, exibility and

IT service levels. Users of VMware Server can protect

their investment i they choose to migrate to VMware

Inrastructure as VMware virtual machines are ully

compatible across the product line.

Product Specifcations and System Requirements

For detailed product specications and system

requirements, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/

pubs/server_pubs.html.