Create a self-optimizing IT infrastructure today with the most widely deployed virtual infrastructure suite. VMware Infrastructure 3, a virtual datacenter operating system, unifies discrete hardware resources to create a shared dynamic platform, while delivering built-in availability, security and scalability to applications.

• Reduce IT costs and improve flexibility with server consolidation
• Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and disaster recovery
• Increase energy efficiency by running fewer servers and dynamically powering down unused servers with our green IT solutions

VMware Infrastructure 3, the most widely deployed virtual datacenter operating system, offers a number of services that transform x86 datacenters into a shared dynamic utility platform through infrastructure, application, and management services

• Infrastructure vServices virtualize industry standard servers, storage and networks to create a unified resource that can be precisely allocated to applications.

vCompute services comprehensively and efficiently virtualize compute resources (CPU and memory) and aggregate them across many servers. VMware Infrastructure vCompute capabilities comprise

Bare metal, efficient and reliable hypervisor VMware ESX runs directly on server hardware for near native virtual machine performance, reliability and scalability.

• Dynamic load balancing. VMware DRS aggregates CPU and memory across many physical servers into unified pools of resources that are made intelligently available to virtual machines based on business priority, enabling even higher levels of hardware utilization and no impact to service levels

High energy efficiency levels. VMware DPM reduces your power consumption even more by automatically turning servers on and off in the datacenter to respond to changing resource requirements of applications

• Application vServices are built in services that provide availability, scalability and security (future) to all applications

Availability Lower planned and unplanned downtime for all applications through built in capabilities of VMware's virtual datacenter operating system.

Minimize service disruptions due to planned hardware downtime with:

• VMware VMotion. Live migrate running virtual machines from one server to another with no disruption or downtime.
• VMware Storage VMotion. Live migrate running virtual machine disks from one storage array to another with no disruption or downtime.

Minimize service disruptions due to unplanned hardware downtime with:

• VMware HA. Protect against physical machine failures as well as operating system failures.
• VMware Consolidated Backup. Provides centralized, agentless backup capabilities with a one-step restore of virtual machine images provided by VMware vCenter Server

Scalability. Align resource allocation to applications with business priorities.

• Enable a single virtual machine to use upto four physical processors simultaneously with 4-way virtual symmetric multi processing and up to 64 GB of RAM.
• Enable virtual machines to dynamically shrink and grow their resource usage based on business priorities with VMware DRS.

• Security. Secure virtual infrastructure from vulnerabilities.

• VMware vCenter Update Manager. Automate patch management with VMware vCenter Update Manager enforcing compliance to patch standards for VMware ESX hosts as well as Microsoft or Linux virtual machines. Secure patching of offline virtual machines as well as automated snapshots and rollback capabilities reduce risk in the environment. Integration with DRS allows for non-disruptive VMware ESX patching with little to no administrative overhead.
• Management vServices (provided by the vCenter family of solutions) provide end to end automation of day to day management tasks in the virtual datacenter

• Automate end to end IT processes with the VMware vCenter suite of solutions.

• VMware vCenter Server is the central point of control for administration and management VMware Infrastructure environments. vCenter Server features:
  • Consolidation management. Analyze physical servers in smaller environments, plan for consolidation of good virtualization candidates and convert physical machines to virtual machines with VMware VirtualCenter Guided Consolidation.
  • Provisioning management. Copy, clone or make templates from virtual machines. Deploy virtual machines instantly from templates.
  • Configuration management. Establish and ensure compliance with corporate configuration standards through virtual machine templates
  • Operations Management
    • Manage operations efficiently through task scheduling and alertin
    • Comprehensively map the inventory and topology of your datacenter with topology maps in.
    • Control access to virtual assets and functionality through fine grained access controls, custom roles & permissions and integration with existing Microsoft Active Directory authentication mechanisms.
    • Convert physical machines, other virtual machines as well as backup images of virtual machines to running virtual machines through VMware vCenter Converter.
• Complementing vCenter Server, the VMware vCenter family of solutions provide control and automation for a wide ranging set of datacenter requirements.
• VMware vCenter solutions span both infrastructure and applications management in the virtual datacenter. They include an extensibility framework that allows seamless integration of VMware vCenter products with the products of VMware systems management partners, to deliver "single pane of glass" management of the datacenter.

VMware Infrastructure 3, the most widely deployed virtual datacenter operating system, offers a number of services that transform x86 datacenters into a shared dynamic utility platform through infrastructure, application, and management services