Start creating a self-optimising IT infrastructure today with the most widely deployed software suite for optimising and managing industry-standard IT environments through virtualisation. VMware Infrastructure 3 is the next generation of industry-leading infrastructure virtualisation software that virtualises servers, storage and networking. The suite delivers comprehensive virtualisation, management, resource optimisation, application availability and operational automation capabilities.
VMware Infrastructure 3 is a feature-rich suite that delivers the production-proven efficiency, availability, and dynamic management needed to create a responsive data center. The suite is shown in the diagram below, with further product information below this:
Platform for virtualising servers, storage and networking.
VMware ESX Server is the foundation for the dynamic, selfoptimising proven virtualisation layer that abstracts processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines. ESX Server increases hardware utilisation and dramatically decreases capital and operating cost by sharing hardware resources across a large number of virtual machines. With advanced resource management, high availability and security features; ESX Server improves service levels even to the most resource-intensive applications.
VMware VirtualCenter
Centralised management, automation and optimisation for IT infrastructure.
VMware VirtualCenter delivers centralised management, operational automation, resource optimisation and high availability to IT environments. These capabilities equip IT environments with unprecedented levels of serviceability, efficiency and reliability. VMware VirtualCenter exposes a rich set of programmatic Web service interfaces that enable integration with third-party system management products, as well as customized development. VMware VirtualCenter provides a central point of control for managing, monitoring, provisioning and migrating virtual machines.
VMware DRS
Dynamic balancing and allocation of resources for virtual machines.
VMware DRS aligns available resources with pre-defined business priorities while streamlining labor and resource intensive operations. VMware DRS now also includes Distributed Power Management (DPM), which balances workloads to reduce power consumption in the datacenter.
VMware VMotion
VMware VMotion technology allows the live migration of virtual machines from one physical server to another for non-disruptive maintenance of IT environments.
VMware Storage VMotion
VMware Storage VMotion allows the live migration of virtual machine disks from one shared storage location to another with no disruption or downtime to application users.
VMware HA
Cost effective high availability for virtual machines
VMware HA enables cost-effective application availability, independent of hardware and operating systems.
VMware Update Manager
VMware Update Manager manages patches/updates for physical ESX Servers as well as guest operating systems, enforcing compliance and securing IT infrastructure.
VMware Consolidation Backup
Centralised backup software for virtual machines
VMware Consolidated Backup provides an easy-to-use, centralised backup facility for virtual machines. It enables virtual machine contents to be backed up from a centralised Microsoft Windows 2003 proxy server, rather than directly from ESX Server.
