VMware Infrastructure

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VMware Infrastructure
Developer(s) VMware, Inc.
Stable release 3.5 Update 4 / March 30, 2009
Platform x86-compatible
Type Virtual machine suite
License Proprietary
Website VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI) was a software suite of computer hardware virtualization products from VMware (a division of EMC Corporation).

Components

The suite included:

  • VMware ESX Server version 3
  • VMware ESXi version 3.x
  • VMware vCenter version 2 (formally VMware VirtualCenter)
  • Virtual SMP (which allows a guest operating system to "see" up to four CPUs in the virtual machine).

Users can supplement this software bundle by purchasing optional products, such as VMotion, as well as distributed services such as high availability (HA), distributed resource scheduler (DRS), or consolidated backup.

VMware Inc. released VMware Infrastructure 3 in June 2006. The suite came in three "editions": Starter, Standard and Enterprise.

Limitations

Known limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 may constrain the design of data centers:[1]

As of June 2008 limitations in VMware Infrastructure version 3.5 included the following:

  • Guest system maximum RAM: 64 GB
  • Number of guest CPUs: 4
  • Number of hosts in an HA cluster: 32
  • Number of hosts in a DRS cluster: 32
  • Size of RAM per server: 256 GB
  • Number of hosts managed by Virtual Center Server: 200
  • Number of virtual machines managed by Virtual Center Server: 2000

Other limitations were, for example, volume size of 64 TB with no more than 6 SCSI controllers per virtual machine; maximum number of remote consoles to a virtual machine is 10. It is also not possible to connect Fibre Channel tape-drives, which hinders the ability to do backups using these drives.

VMware renamed their product VMware vSphere for release 4, and marketed it for cloud computing.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Configuration Maximums for VMware Infrastructure 3". VMware, Inc. 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2008-09-05. 

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