Greetings,
An email I got for invitation for VMWare came. I'll paste the details below. Just tell me what you all think of VMWare?
IBM Xseries Server & vmware esx help customers win in the market place by simplifying their IT infrastructure through server consolidation. The combination of the two solutions is designed for server consolidation, rapid deployment of new servers, availability, and simplified management - - helping to improve hardware utilization, save space, IT staffing and hardware costs.
Through self-managing technologies, a scalable server architecture, and end-to-end solutions, IBM & vmware esx can help you "do more with less," freeing up resources, reducing costs and complexities, and managing multiple workload requirements.
Real Cost Savings to customers by allowing them to reduce the number of physical hardware units and thereby, save floor space, rack space, and power consumption; simplify the administration work of maintaining dissimilar operating systems and applications that require their own OS instance.
Highly Scalable & Flexible with VMware ESX Server*, you can enable dynamic, logical partitioning on your IBM xSeries™ systems. Instead of deploying multiple servers scattered around your company and running a single application on each, you can consolidate the physical servers into one or two big servers that are configured for high availability. This enhances system availability and flexibility at the same time because big servers are designed for scalability and expansion.
Centralized IT Management VMware allows one point of administrative control over multiple operating systems and applications.
High Availability These virtual machines are completely isolated from one another, if one virtual machine were to crash (e.g. for software reasons), the other virtual machines are not affected. In particular, when a new application is being introduced that is running older applications, housing the new application within a virtual machine insulates its behavior from disturbing the other applications.
Safe & Convenient Migration Migrating an application from one virtual machine running an older OS into another virtual machine running the upgraded OS does not require any physical interruption of operations. Physical network connections are not affected. The migration act is controlled from the console.
Tell me your opinion. Thanks to all.