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The Responsive Data Center.Dynamic. Ecient. Available.

VMware Inrastructure is the most widely deployed

sotware suite or optimizing and managing industry

standard IT environments through virtualization rom

the desktop to the data center. The only production-ready

virtualization sotware suite, VMware Inrastructure is proven

to deliver results or more than 20,000 customers o all sizesand used in a wide variety o environments and applications.

The suite is ully optimized, rigorously tested and certied

or the widest range o hardware, operating systems and

sotware applications. VMware Inrastructure provides

built-in centralized management, resource optimization,

application availability and operational automation

capabilities that deliver transormative cost savings as well

as increased operational eciency, exibility and IT service

levels.

How is VMware Inrastructure Used

VMware Inrastructure delivers responsive ITdynamic,

ecient and available. Eliminating many o the constraintso traditional hardware, VMware Inrastructure allows

companies to:

Implement prductin server cnslidatin and

cntainment. Contain server sprawl by running sotware

applications in virtual machines on ewer, highly scalable,

reliable enterprise-class servers. Customers o VMware

Inrastructure have been able to consolidate 10 or more

virtual machines per physical processor, drastically

increasing server utilization and containing server sprawl.

Prvide advanced business cntinuity prtectin at

lwer cst. Deliver high availability or critical applications

with cost-efective virtualization-based solutions. WithVMware Inrastructure, customers can implement a

standardized platorm that allows many production virtual

machines to be recovered in the event o hardware ailure,

without investing in costly redundant hardware.

Streamline sftware test and develpment. Consolidate

disparate development, testing and staging environments

involving multiple operating systems and multi-tiered

applications.

VMware Infrastructure

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Enterprise Servers

Enterprise Network

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VMware Inrastructure virtualizes and aggregates industry standard servers and their attached network andstorage.

Secure and manage enterprise desktps. Secure enterprise

desktops o geographically dispersed workorce by providing a

standard corporate desktop image in a virtual machine. At the

same time, provide standardized enterprise desktop environments

hosted in virtual machines accessed through thin clients or PCs.

Simplify infrastructure prvisining. Reduce the time or

provisioning new inrastructure to minutes with sophisticated

automation capabilities. Virtual appliances combine simple

deployment o sotware with the benets o pre-congured

devices. Centralize control and responsibility or hardware

resources while giving business units and application owners

complete control over how resources are utilized.

Re-hst legacy applicatins. Migrate legacy operating systems

and sotware applications to virtual machines running on new

hardware or better reliability.

VMware Infrastructure 3

Data center management and optimization suite

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B R O C H U R EV M W A R E I N F R A S T R U C T U R E 3

Operating System

ApplicationApplication

Operating System

VMware ESX

Hardware

C PU Memory NI C Disk

With VMware Infrastructure, STM was able to cut costs by 30 percent. Managem

sleeps well at night knowing that customers will be able to get transportat

information, even in the event of a disaster in our data center.

Mike Stean

Concepteur Principale/Systems Administrator, Socit de transport de Mon

VMware ESX virtualizes server storage and networking, allowing multiple applications to run in virtualmachines on the same physical server.

What are the Benefts o VMware Inrastructure?

VMware Inrastructure uses virtualization technology to deliver

transormative capital and operating cost savings as well as

increased operational eciency, exibility and IT service levels.

VMwareInfrastructuredeliversmeasurablesavingsinbothcapitaland operating costs:

Increases hardware utilization and reduces hardware

requirements with server consolidation ratios commonly

exceeding ten virtual machines per physical processor.

Reduces the cost o rack space and power proportionate to the

consolidation ratio achieved.

Decreases labor cost by simpliying and automating labor and

resource intensive IT operations across disparate hardware,

operating system and sotware application environments.

VMwareInfrastructureimprovesresponsiveness,serviceability,

availability and exibility o IT inrastructure:

Enables broad-based, cost-efective application availability and

business continuity, independent o hardware and operating

systems.

Enables continuous uptime and non-disruptive maintenance o IT

environments with live migration o entire running systems.

Eliminates the need or cumbersome sotware installation and

conguration with virtual appliances.

Accelerates application development and deployment liecycles.

Improves responsiveness to business needs with instant

provisioning and dynamic optimization o application

environments.

Allows legacy systems to co-exist with new environments.

How Does VMware Inrastructure Work?

VMware Inrastructure virtualizes and aggregates industry standard

servers and their attached network and storage into unied

resource pools. Complete environments, including operating

systems and applications, are encapsulated in virtual machines

that are independent rom the hardware. A set o virtualization-

based distributed inrastructure services or virtual machines bring

breakthrough levels o exibility, serviceability and eciency to IT

environments:

Centralmanagementandmonitoringofvirtualmachines

automate and simpliy provisioning.

Distributedresourceoptimizationdynamicallyandintelligently

allocates the available resources among virtual machines, resulting

in signicantly higher hardware utilization and better alignment o

IT resources with business priorities.

Easy-to-usehigh-availabilityprovidesbetterservicelevelsto

applications at lower cost than static, physical inrastructure.

Livemigrationcapabilitiesallowmaintenanceofunderlyingserv

and storage hardware without disruption to application users.

Centralizedpatchmanagementforphysicalhostserversandgue

operating systems keeps the inrastructure secure and complian

VMware Inrastructure is not tied to any operating system,giving customers a bias-ree choice o operating system and

sotware applications. VMware Inrastructure scales to support IT

environments o any size.

Whats Included in VMware Inrastructure?

VMware ESX

VMware ESX is the oundation or the dynamic, sel-optimizing

IT inrastructure. VMware ESX is a robust, production proven

virtualization layer that abstracts processor, memory, storage and

networking resources into multiple virtual machines. VMware ESX

increases hardware utilization and dramatically decreases capital

and operating cost by sharing hardware resources across a large

number o virtual machines. With advanced resource managemen

high availability and security eatures; VMware ESX improves

service levels even to the most resource-intensive applications.

VMware ESX is now also available as VMware ESXi, ofering all the

same unctionality but with a thin 32 MB ootprint that provides

unparalleled security and reliability. Additionally, integration as

server rmware makes deployment ast and easy. VMware ESXvirtualizes server storage and networking, allowing multiple

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Physical Servers

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VMware VirtualCenter provides a central point o control or managing, monitoring, provisioning andmigrating virtual machines

VMware VMFS

VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) is a high-perormance

cluster le system that allows multiple installations o VMware ESX

to access the same virtual machine storage concurrently. VMFS

enables the virtualization-based distributed inrastructure services

delivered by VMware VirtualCenter, VMware VMotion technology,

VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware High

Availability (HA).

VMware Virtual SMP technlgy

VMware Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) technology

enhances virtual machine perormance by enabling a single virtual

machine to use multiple physical processors simultaneously. Virtual

SMP allows or virtualization o the most processor and resource-

intensive enterprise applications and databases.

VMware VirtualCenter

VMware VirtualCenter delivers centralized management, operational

automation, resource optimization and high availability to IT

environments. These capabilities equip IT environments with

unprecedented levels o serviceability, eciency and reliability.

VMware VirtualCenter exposes a rich set o programmatic Web

service interaces that enable integration with third-party system

management products, as well as customized development.

VMware VirtualCenter provides a central point o control or

managing, monitoring, provisioning and migrating virtual machines.

VMware DRS

VMware DRS aligns available resources with pre-dened business

priorities while streamlining labor and resource intensive operatio

VMware DRS now also includes Distributed Power Management

(DPM), which balances workloads to reduce power consumption i

the datacenter.

VMware VMtin

VMware VMotion technology allows the live migration o virtual

machines rom one physical server to another or non-disruptive

maintenance o IT environments.

VMware Strage VMtin

VMware Storage VMotion allows the live migration o virtual

machine disks rom one shared storage location to another with n

disruption or downtime to application users.

VMware HA

VMware HA enables cost-efective application availability,independent o hardware and operating systems.

VMware Update Manager

VMware Update Manager manages patches/updates or physical

VMware ESX as well as guest operating systems, enorcing

compliance and securing IT inrastructure.

VMware Cnslidated Backup

VMware Consolidated Backup provides an easy-to-use, centralized

backup acility or virtual machines. It enables virtual machine

contents to be backed up rom a centralized Microsot Windows

2003 proxy server, rather than directly rom VMware ESX.


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VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Ave Palo Alto CA 94304 USA Tel 877-486-9273 Fax 650-427-5001 www.vmware.comCopyright 2008 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Protected by one or more o U.S. Patent Nos. 6,961,806, 6,961,941, 6,880,022, 6,397,242, 6,496,847, 6,704,925, 6,496,847, 6,711,672, 6,725,289, 6,735,601,

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7,278,030, 7,281,102, 7,290,253; patents pending. VMware, the VMware boxeslogo and design, Virtual SMP and VMotion are registered trademarks or trademarks o VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or

other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks o their respective companies. Item No: 08Q1_VM_INFRASTRUCTURE_BRO_EN_R3

V M W A R E I N F R A S T R U C T U R E 3 B R O C H U R E

VirtualCenter Server is licensed and sold separately.

The ollowing products are also available as separately

licensed products:

VMwareVMotionandStorageVMotion

VMwareDRS(includingDPM)

PRoDUCTS VMWARE ESXI 2 VMWARE

INFRASTRUC TUREFoUNDATIoN

VMWARE

INFRASTRUC TURESTANDARD

VMWARE

INFRASTRUC TUREENTERPRISE

Single server partitioning (Previously Starter)

Virtualization or Small

Business or Branch ofce

High Availability Inrastructure

Virtualization Suite or Any

Workload

Enterprise-class Inrastructu

Virtualization Suite or the

Dynamic Data Center

VMware ESX or VMware ESXi

VMFS

Virtual SMP

VirtualCenter Agent

Consolidated Backup1

Update Manager1

VMware HA1

VMotion1

Storage VMotion1

VMware DRS1

VirtualCenter Server Available as a separately licensed product.

Licensed on per-server basis separate rom VMware Inrastructure 3 editions.

How Can I Purchase VMware Inrastructure?

VMware Inrastructure is available in the ollowing editions:

1These products require VirtualCenter Server (previously VirtualCenter Management Server).

2 VMware ESXi cannot be managed with VirtualCenter Server when purchased as a stand-alone product. Managing VMware ESXi with VirtualCenter Server requires purchase oVMware Inrastructure 3 Foundation, Standard, or Enterprise.

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