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VMware Releases VMware Server

VMware has announced the general availability of VMware Server after a five month beta program with more than 700,000 downloads. Customers deploying the free hosted virtualization product for Linux and Windows servers can now purchase enterprise-class support from VMware. In addition, they can now use VMware VirtualCenter to centrally provision, monitor and manage VMware Server deployments.

VMware Server, the successor to VMware GSX Server first introduced in 2001, enables users to realise the benefits of virtualisation. With VMware Server, users can quickly create and provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual machines, bringing the powerful benefits of virtualisation to every server.

"VMware Server is a rock-solid product and the best way to begin experiencing the benefits of virtualisation," said Joseph Foran, director of IT for FSW, a nonprofit human services agency based in Connecticut.

Features of VMware Server are:

Runs on standard x86 hardware
Support for 64-bit guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, NetWare and Solaris
Support for VMware VirtualCenter to efficiently provision, monitor and manage infrastructure from a central management console
Experimental support for 2-Way Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors
Runs on a wider variety of Linux and Windows host and guest operating systems than any server virtualisation product on the market
Ability to capture entire state of a virtual machine and roll back at any time with the click of a single button
Installs like an application with quick and easy, wizard-driven installation
Quick and easy, wizard-driven virtual machine creation
Support for VMware or Microsoft virtual machine format and Symantec LiveState Recovery images with VM Importer
Experimental support for Intel Virtualization Technology
Investment protection with an easy upgrade path to VMware Infrastructure

VMware Server is available at no charge for immediate download at www.vmware.com/products/server/. Enterprise-class support list price is USD 350 for a one-year subscription per two processors for Gold level and USD 450 for Platinum level. VMware VirtualCenter for VMware Server list price is USD 600 per two processors.


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