VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system. VMware software virtualizes the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters. The host provides pass-through drivers for guest USB, serial, and parallel devices. In this way, VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers, because every host looks nearly identical to the guest. In practice, a systems administrator can pause operations on a virtual machine guest, move or copy that guest to another physical computer, and there resume execution exactly at the point of suspension. Alternately, for enterprise servers, a feature called VMotion allows the migration of operational guest virtual machines between similar but separate hardware hosts.
VMware offers the following Server virtualization products:
In addition, VMware offers the following Desktop virtualization products:
VMware also offers the following automation and management products to help set up and manage virtual machines and a virtual infrastructure:
VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operat...
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