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What is VMware GSX Server?
VMware GSX Server is enterprise-class virtual machine software for business-critical environments. It provides a secure, uniform platform for consolidating and partitioning servers to increase server resource utilization and management efficiencies, which reduces costs. Enterprise customers rely on this third-generation solution to deliver server scalability, reliability, and high availability and to maximize their existing IT investments. The product's robust architecture and ability to integrate easily into Microsoft Windows and Linux hosts environments make VMware GSX Server easy to deploy and manage.
What can I do with VMware GSX Server?
VMware GSX Server is ideal for:
Implementing server consolidation. Deployed in software development and test environments and in corporate IT operations, VMware GSX Server consolidates applications and infrastructure services running on diverse operating systems onto fewer highly scalable, reliable enterprise-class physical systems, which reduces costs and improves management efficiency. VMware GSX Server provides software developers and testers with an array of easily managed server environments without the need for additional hardware. Multi-server applications and services can be deployed on a single machine.
Delivering high availability of server resources. VMware GSX Server makes high availability affordable and scalable by protecting critical applications and data in up to 64 secure, isolated virtual machines on a single hardware system. It supports standard network load balancing, standby, replication, and clustering of virtual machines. Virtual server management tasks like system monitoring and failover handling are can be easily automated with the powerful VMware GSX Server scripting API and scripting features.
Rapid provisioning of server resources. VMware GSX Server makes provisioning a new server as easy as copying a file. Pre-configured virtual machine servers can be built once quickly and deployed everywhere immediately. VMware GSX Server helps keep up with demand for new servers while controlling costs.
Streamlining operations at training and demo centers. VMware GSX Server simplifies training lab setup and management with encapsulated virtual machines for each student hosted on a single server.
Improving effectiveness of software help desk and technical support operations. VMware GSX Server accelerates problem resolution by providing analysts with a selection of virtual machines that exactly match customer configurations.
What types of applications can I run in VMware GSX Server?
As the most stable and widely deployed server virtualization product on the market, VMware GSX Server offers the offers the broadest selection of supported host and guest operating systems of any virtualization technology. As a result, almost any application will run in VMware GSX Server. Furthermore, VMware GSX Server is designed to host multiple instances of common services such as:
Web Services: IIS, Apache, ColdFusion
Departmental Services: MS Exchange, SendMail, File Servers
Others: Databases, Proxy Server, NNTP, Name Servers, Citrix
Custom Applications: Delphi, Visual Basic, etc.
Who should buy VMware GSX Server?
A wide variety of professionals need VMware GSX Server, including:
Software development and test groups. Development teams and quality assurance labs use VMware GSX Server to set up server farms for building and testing.
Corporate IT operations. IT managers and system administrators use VMware GSX Server to run corporate networks and intranets.
Computer training operations. Training centers use VMware GSX Server to change between multiple student machine setups rapidly and efficiently.
Corporate software demo centers. Sales and marketing staff use VMware GSX Server to present complex product demos from a centralized location or over the Internet.
Software help desk operations. Help desk and customer support groups use VMware GSX Server to provide support for a wide variety of system environments.
How does VMware GSX Server work?
VMware GSX Server works by transforming physical computers into as many as 64 virtual machines. VMware GSX Server runs as an application on a host operating system to provide a secure, uniform platform for easily deploying, managing, and remotely controlling more servers running in virtual machines. Operating systems and applications are isolated in multiple virtual machines that reside on a single piece of hardware. This means that completely independent installations of Microsoft Windows or Linux server operating systems can run side by side on a single IA-32 machine. System resources are allocated to any virtual machine based on need, delivering maximum capacity utilization and control over computing infrastructure.
You begin by installing VMware GSX Server on a system running a Windows or Linux server operating system. You then configure virtual machines in software exactly as a physical server would be -- with processor, memory, disks, etc. Virtual machines can be loaded with standard Windows and Linux operating systems and applications, and they have full networking capabilities. Because VMware GSX Server gives the virtual machines direct access to the host processor, rather than emulating the hardware, virtual machines deliver near-native performance.
How is VMware GSX Server different from VMware Workstation?
VMware Workstation is virtual machine software for the desktop. It is intended for technical users that need to work with multiple machine environments. VMware GSX Server is designed for server deployments and server applications. Its unique features include:
Server-class performance
Headless operation
Web-based management interface
Remote display client
API and scripting for automating management tasks
Supports servers with up to 32 processors
Supports up to 64GB of memory on the host system
Virtual disks up to 256GB in capacity
How is VMware GSX Server different from VMware ESX Server?
VMware GSX Server and VMware ESX Server are both enterprise-class virtual machine software for partitioning and consolidating servers. VMware GSX Server runs as an application on top of Windows or Linux server operating systems. VMware GSX Server is intended for users who are looking for product that can be easily installed on any server running either Windows or Linux server operating systems. Because it supports the widest selection of supported host and guest operating systems of any virtualization technology, VMware GSX Server is deployed in dynamic environments that feature widely heterogeneous platforms.
VMware ESX Server is designed for the most demanding, large-scale production server environments. Its mainframe-class architecture provides unprecedented scalability and performance. By running directly on the hardware, VMware ESX Server provides fine-grained resource controls that adapt to the needs of mission-critical applications. The resource management capabilities of VMware ESX Server are like having a dial to control the levels and limits of CPU, networking, memory, and disk I/O allocated to and used by each virtual machine.
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