The Full Form of VMWARE is Virtual machine software.
VMware, Inc. is an American publicly traded software company from California, USA. It provides cloud computing and virtualization software and services. It was one of the first commercially successful companies to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware is a virtualization and cloud computing software provider based in Palo Alto, Calif. Founded in 1998, VMware is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies. EMC Corporation originally acquired VMware in 2004; EMC was later acquired by Dell Technologies in 2016. VMware bases its virtualization technologies on its bare-metal hypervisor ESX/ESXi in x86 architecture.
With VMware server virtualization, a hypervisor is installed on the physical server to allow for multiple virtual machines (VMs) to run on the same physical server. Each VM can run its own operating system (OS), which means multiple OSes can run on one physical server. All the VMs on the same physical server share resources, such as networking and RAM. In 2019, VMware added support to its hypervisor to run containerized workloads in a Kubernetes cluster in a similar way. These types of workloads can be managed by the infrastructure team in the same way as virtual machines and the DevOps teams can deploy containers as they were used to.
Diane Greene, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion founded VMware, which launched its first product — VMware Workstation — in 1999. The company released its second product, VMware ESX in 2001.
VMware’s current CEO is Patrick Gelsinger, appointed in 2012.
VMware products include virtualization, networking and security management tools, software-defined data center software and storage software.
VMware vSphere is VMware’s suite of virtualization products. VMware vSphere, known as VMware Infrastructure prior to 2009, includes the following:
As of April 2018, the most current version is vSphere 6.7, which is available in three editions: Standard, Enterprise Plus and Platinum. There are also two three-server kits targeted toward small and medium-sized businesses named vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus.
With VMware Cloud on AWS, customers can run a cluster of vSphere hosts with vSAN and NSX in an Amazon data center and run their workloads there while in the meantime manage them with their well-known VMware tools and skills.
VMWARE
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Virtual machine software
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