VMware ESX Server

ESX Server abstracts processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Production-proven at thousands of customers of all sizes, ESX Server delivers the highest levels of performance, scalability and flexibility.

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Start Achieving the Benefits of Virtualization

• ESX Server installs on the “bare metal” and allows multiple unmodified operating systems and their applications to run in virtual machines that share physical resources.
• Each virtual machine represents a complete system, with processors, memory, networking, storage and BIOS.
• Advanced resource allocation policies for virtual machines allow you to guarantee resources to even your most resource-intensive applications.

Leverage the Most Advanced Server, Storage and Networking Virtualization Platform

• Virtualize any environment, from the corporate data center to the branch office, with a compatibility list that includes more than 200 server and storage systems. Run unmodified Windows, Linux, Solaris, and NetWare operating systems in virtual machines.
• Leverage high performance shared storage for greater manageability, flexibility and availability with VMware VMFS.
• Run even the most resource intensive enterprise applications in virtual machines with expanded processor, memory and storage limits. Enable a single virtual machine to use up to four physical processors with VMware Virtual SMP.
• Optimize virtual machine resource allocation with minimum, maximum and proportional resource sharing for CPU, memory, disk and network bandwidth.
• Achieve data center-class high availability with shared storage, SAN transparency, built-in storage access multipathing and support for Microsoft Clustering Services.
• Enhance IT infrastructure security with LUN zoning and masking, VLAN traffic tagging and filtering, and enforcing security at the Ethernet layer.

VMware ESX Server is included in all VMware Infrastructure editions.