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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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