Transam appointed VMware Enterprise VIP Reseller as VMware Unveils Next
Generation of Industry-Leading Data Centre Products:
ESX Server 3 and VirtualCenter 2
Powerful Enterprise Virtualization
Platform Provides the Foundation for the Industry's Next Wave of Innovative
Data Centre Management Technologies
London (UK),
October 17, 2005 – VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual
infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today unveiled major
new releases of its data centre products: VMware ESX Server 3, virtual
infrastructure software for partitioning hardware and consolidating
application workloads in mission-critical environments, and VMware
VirtualCenter 2, software for managing virtual infrastructure.
With the next generation releases of
VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter, VMware offers a powerful
enterprise virtualization platform that is providing the foundation for the
industry's next wave of innovative data centre management technologies.
VMware and its partner community are now delivering a comprehensive set of
management technologies based on virtual infrastructure designed to
substantially reduce the cost and complexity of data centre environments.
"In the last several years since we
first introduced virtual infrastructure with our ESX Server and
VirtualCenter products and enabled the vast selection of partner solutions
built on that platform which have followed, thousands of customers have been
able to substantially improve how they build and manage their distributed
systems through virtualization," said Karthik Rau, director of product
management at VMware. "With the introduction of ESX Server 3 and
VirtualCenter 2, VMware continues to raise the bar by providing customers
with the ability to drive even higher availability and better flexibility
and to apply the benefits of virtualization throughout the enterprise."
Building on the success of VMotion
technology for live migration of running virtual machines with
zero-downtime, VMware is now introducing new transformative virtual
infrastructure management technologies:
Distributed Availability Services:
Infrastructure-wide high availability services for critical applications
without the cost and complexity of clustering. Distributed availability
services detect failed virtual machines and automatically restart them on
alternate ESX Server hosts. Distributed availability services select a
failover host that can honor the virtual machine's resource allocations so
that service level guarantees remain intact.
Distributed Resource Scheduling:
Infrastructure-wide resource optimization enabling a self-managing, highly
efficient compute cluster with built-in resource and load balancing. Built
on top of VMotion technology and VirtualCenter, distributed resource
scheduling intelligently and continuously balances virtual machine workloads
across ESX Server hosts so users can safely operate at 80% utilization or
higher. Distributed availability services detect when increasing virtual
machine activity saturates an ESX Server host and triggers automated VMotion
live migrations to move running virtual machines to other ESX Server nodes
so that all resource commitments are met.
VMware ESX Server 3 and VMware
VirtualCenter 2 provide customers with the option to deploy virtualization
in any environment - from the smallest branch office to the largest data
center. ESX Server 3 has broader x86 support that unlocks the power of newer
dual-core processor hardware and added NAS and iSCSI networked storage
compatibility. Expanded virtual machine memory limits and new 4-way Virtual
SMP further enable the most memory and processor-intensive server
applications to run in virtual machines.
VirtualCenter 2 scales up to control
the biggest infrastructures with hundreds of hosts and thousands of virtual
machines and it provides enhanced usage reporting and security auditing
features to meet enterprise requirements. In addition, VirtualCenter 2
simplifies management with a richer unified client and centralized host
configuration tools.
About VMware ESX
Server
Adopted by more than 10,000
enterprises worldwide over the last four years, VMware ESX Server is the
industry-leading virtual infrastructure platform for x86-based systems used
for partitioning hardware and consolidating application workloads in
mission-critical environments. The ESX Server bare-metal hypervisor
architecture delivers a highly scalable virtual machine platform with
advanced resource management capabilities that are used to guarantee service
levels to enterprise workloads. ESX Server supports, in virtual machines, a
wide range of off-the-shelf Windows, Linux and NetWare operating systems and
the application software for those operating systems, without any
modifications required.
About VMware VirtualCenter
VMware VirtualCenter is virtual
infrastructure management software that provides a central and secure point
of control for virtual computing resources. VirtualCenter creates a more
responsive data center, enabling faster reconfiguration and reallocation of
applications and services. VirtualCenter allows for instant provisioning of
servers and decreases user-downtime while optimizing the data centre.
