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vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is the centralized management utility for VMware, and is used to manage virtual machines, multiple ESXi hosts, and all dependent components from a single centralized location. VMware vMotion and svMotion require the use of vCenter and ESXi hosts.
November 10, 2003 Microsoft releases Microsoft Virtual PC, which is a machine-level virtualization technology. 2005. HP releases Integrity Virtual Machines 1.0 and 1.2 which ran only HP-UX. October 24, 2005 VMware releases VMware Player, a free player for virtual machines. Sun releases Solaris 10, including Solaris Zones, for both x86/x64 and ...
VMware vSphere (formerly VMware Infrastructure 4) is VMware's cloud computing virtualization platform. [ 2 ] It includes vCenter Configuration Manager, as well as vCenter Application Discovery Manager, and the ability of vMotion to move more than one virtual machine at a time from one host server to another.
Namely, virtual infrastructure is designed to manage VMs while storage was designed to manage LUNs and volumes, which have no direct relationship with VMs. Independently of VMware, several startups also began to provide VM-aware storage products using existing virtual infrastructure management interfaces.
In this way, VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers, because every host looks nearly identical to the guest. In practice, a system administrator can pause operations on a virtual machine guest, move or copy that guest to another physical computer, and there resume execution exactly at the point of suspension.
In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized hardware, software, or a combination of the two.
Many ready-made virtual machines (VMs) which run on VMware Workstation Player, VMware Workstation Pro, and other virtualization software are available [126] with software for specific purposes ready-installed, either for purchase or free of charge.
VMware ESXi (formerly ESX) is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware, a subsidiary of Broadcom, for deploying and serving virtual computers.As a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi is not a software application that is installed on an operating system (OS); instead, it includes and integrates vital OS components, such as a kernel.