VMware Server equips you with a stable, easy to use, hosted virtualization platform. This newest version offers the capabilities from before, plus an array of new features, increased performance and stability.
Start Achieving the Benefits of Virtualization. The free VMware Server is based upon VMware’s proven virtualization technology.

With this robust yet easy to use software 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 configuration
• 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 feature
• Re-host legacy operating systems such as Windows 2000, Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2003 in a virtual machine running on new hardware and operating system
• Leverage pre-built, ready-to-run virtual appliances that include virtual hardware, operating system and application environments from the Virtual Appliance Marketplace

Install and run VMware Server as an application on top of a host Windows or Linux operating system. A thin virtualization layer partitions the physical server so you can run multiple virtual machines simultaneously on a single server. Computing resources of the physical server are treated as a uniform pool of resources that can be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner.

VMware Server isolates each virtual machine from its host and other virtual machines, leaving it unaffected if another virtual machine crashes. Your data does not leak across virtual machines and your applications can only communicate over configured network connections. VMware Server encapsulates a virtual machine environment as a set of files, which are easy to back-up, move and copy.

Key Features:
• Installs like an application, with simple, wizard-driven installation and virtual machine creation process
• Includes a web based management interface with a simple, flexible, secure, intuitive and productive management experience
• Runs on any standard x86 hardware, including Intel and AMD hardware virtualization assisted systems
• Runs on a wider variety of Linux and Windows host and guest operating systems than any server virtualization product on the market
• Supports two-processor Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors
• Captures entire state of a virtual machine and rolls back at any time with the click of a single button
• Protects investment with an easy virtual machine migration path to VMware Infrastructure

New Features in VMware Server 2:
• New operating system support: The broadest operating system support of any host-based virtualization platform currently available, including support for Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista Business Edition and Ultimate Edition (guest only), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Ubuntu 8.04.
• 64-bit operating system support: Use 64-bit guest operating systems on 64-bit hardware to enable more scalable and higher performing computing solutions. In addition, Server 2 will run natively on 64-bit Linux host operating systems.
• VMware Infrastructure (VI) Web Access management interface: VI Web Access management interface provides a simple, flexible, secure, intuitive and productive management experience. Plus, access thousands of pre-built, pre-configured, ready-to-run enterprise applications packaged with an operating system inside a virtual machine at the Virtual Appliance Marketplace.
• Independent virtual machine console: With the new VMware Remote Console, you can access your virtual machine consoles independent of the VI Web Access management interface.
• More scalable virtual machines: Support for up to 8 GB of RAM and up to10 virtual network interface cards per virtual machine, transfer data at faster data rates from USB 2.0 devices plus add new SCSI hard disks and controllers to a running virtual machine.
• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS): Properly backup the state of the Windows virtual machines when using the snapshot feature to maintain data integrity of the applications running inside the virtual machine.
• Support for Virtual Machine Interface (VMI): This feature enables transparent paravirtualization, in which a single binary version of the operating system can run either on native hardware or in paravirtualized mode to improve performance in specific Linux environments.
• Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI): Support for fast and efficient communication between a virtual machine and the host operating system and between two or more virtual machines on the same host.
• Support for VIX API 1.6: This feature provides a programming interface for automating virtual machine and guest operations.

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