VMware Server is a free virtualization software for Windows servers and Linux servers with enterprise-level support and Virtual Center management. VMware Server enables companies to partition a physical server (physical server) into more than one virtual machine, and get the benefits of virtualization methods. With Virtual Center add-on, users can configure, monitor and manage their information technology infrastructure efficiently.
Then, how VMware Server works? Install and run VMware Server as an application on the host operating system Windows or Linux. A thin layer virtualization to partition a physical server so that you can run multiple virtual machines simultaneously on a single server. Computer resources (computing resource) on the physical server are treated as a uniform resource, which can be allocated to the virtual machine in a controlled manner.
VMware Server isolates each virtual machine from the host computer and virtual machine from another, so there will be an impact if other virtual machine crashes. The data will not "leak" to other virtual machines and applications can only communicate over configured network connections. VMware Server encapsulates a virtual machine environment as a set of files, which can easily be backed up, moved and copied.
Simply put, using VMware Server, you will be able to do some things like the following: Speed up the server settings to build a virtual machine once and pass it several times in accordance with the desires; can easily evaluate the software on a virtual machine is easy to administer without the need installation and configuration;
Still others, such as: Simplify patch testing, applications and new operating systems by allowing system administrators to do the testing on a virtual machine environment that is safe and can do a roll back to a previous state (clean state) using the snapshot feature; to re-use operating system old school such as Windows 2000, Windows NT or Windows 2003 Server on a virtual machine on a virtual machine that uses new hardware and operating system.
VMware Server available for free, so you ought to try his abilities.
Download VMware Server 2.0.2
