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What Is VMware Workstation?
VMware Workstation is powerful desktop
virtualization software for software developers/testers and IT professionals who
want to streamline software development, testing and deployment in their
enterprise. VMware Workstation allows users to run multiple x86-based operating
systems, including Windows, Linux, and NetWare, and their applications
simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines —
no hard drive partitioning or rebooting required.
Shipping for more than six years and winner of more than a dozen major product awards, VMware Workstation improves productivity and flexibility, and reduces costs so dramatically that it has become an indispensable tool for software development and IT professionals worldwide.
How Is VMware Workstation
Used?
The powerful and flexible virtualization properties and features of
VMware Workstation enable a wide range of solutions for a diverse set of users.
Individuals and organizations use VMware Workstation to:
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Workstation streamlines our work in QA so we can release more quickly
new, higher quality products. We cut our costs by buying fewer,
higher-end PCs, and we can do more on one computer than we could with
separate boxes. We can also isolate issues without having to worry about
degradation of hardware or needing to rebuild systems."
-- Cliff Thornton, Manager, Cognos Solution and Interoperability Quality Control, Cognos |
- Streamline software development and testing operations. Create multiple development and testing environments as virtual machines on a single PC and use them to test "real world" multi-tier configurations, complex networks, and multiple operating systems and applications all on a single machine.
- Improve team collaboration. The portability and hardware-independent properties of virtual machines, coupled with new features in VMware Workstation, lets users easily share development environments and pre-packaged testing configurations without risk, and also facilitates collaboration between development and QA.
- Enhance the productivity of IT professionals. Allows system administrators and other enterprise IT professionals to test software, including new applications, application updates, and operating system patches, in virtual machines prior to deployment on physical PCs or servers in a production environment. IT help desk departments can create and reference a virtual library of end-user configurations to help them resolve problems more quickly.
- Introduce virtual infrastructure to your enterprise. Virtual machines created in Workstation can be deployed to the other desktop and server virtualization platforms offered by VMware. Introducing VMware Workstation virtualization to the desktop is an ideal first step to transforming your physical IT infrastructure into virtual infrastructure.
VMware
Workstation works by creating fully isolated, secure virtual machines that
encapsulate an operating system and its applications. The VMware virtualization
layer maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machine's resources,
so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, and I/O devices, and is
the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine. VMware Workstation installs onto
the host operating system and provides broad hardware support by inheriting
device support from the host.
With VMware Workstation:
- Build complex networks - and develop, test, and deploy new applications - all on a single computer.
- Leverage the portability of virtual machines to easily share development environments and pre-packaged operating system/application testing configurations without risk.
- Add or change operating systems without repartitioning disks or rebooting.
- Run new operating systems and legacy applications on one computer.
Since its launch in 1999, VMware Workstation has revolutionized the way software and IT infrastructure is developed and has become the de facto standard for IT professionals and developers worldwide. If your business is looking to simplify and accelerate development and testing of software and IT infrastructure, VMware Workstation is essential. When you deploy VMware Workstation in your environment you will:
- Shorten development cycles.
- Increase hardware utilization.
- Reduce problem resolution time.
- Increase productivity.
- Accelerate time-to-market.
- Improve project quality.
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