Cloud Computing and Virtualization Software Products of VMware™

Last updated on February 6th, 2023 at 01:53 pm.

 Products of VMware

VMware is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, VMware, Inc is one of the most commercially successful company today, to virtualize within the x86 architecture. It provides services such as cloud computing, platform virtualization software and other related services.

Founded by Diane Greene (a former member of Google board of directors) in 1998, who was also its CEO from 1998 until 2008. Due to the company’s financial problems she was then replaced by Paul Maritz (a retired 14-year Microsoft veteran who headed cloud computing business unit of Dell EMC) in the mid of 2008.

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The following is a summary of the categories of various virtualization and cloud solutions from VMware.

Desktop Virtualization Solutions

These are for when you are running one OS on your local computer and you would like to run a different OS. For instance you have a Windows computer and you want to run Mac OS or Linux in a virtual Environment.

Some of the solutions they have are:

Data Center Virtualization

These enable you to use Virtualization in your data center rather than having to buy more hardware.  They enable you to reduce hardware costs and enhance availability.

The products in this category are :

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Education products

Entails VMware Training and courses. These will enable you  attain mastery in VMware virtualization and cloud solutions.

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VMware Products:

The VMware product line runs different operating systems. It introduced  desktop software that runs on:

• Microsoft Windows
• Linux
• And macOS

VMware has also produced an enterprise software hypervisor (A platform that allows multiple operating systems to run on a host computer at the same time).For servers. VMware ESXi, is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on server hardware, without requiring an additional underlying operating system. It made the company to the success of today.

VMware also released an open source platform-as-a-service system called Cloud Foundry, along with a hosted version of the service in April 2011.

The following are some of the products of VMware.

VMware vSphere:

VMware vSphere uses the virtualization power to convert data centers to a simple cloud.

It can provide flexible and reliable IT services. As a cloud operating system, Vmware vSphere adds and combines physical hardware that underlies multiple systems, by managing a large collections of infrastructure (such as CPUs, storage, and networking) as a seamless and dynamic operating environment. Thus providing a virtual resource pool for data centers. It also manages the complexity of a data center.

VMware vSphere is made up of the following component layers:

Infrastructure Services:

A set of services provided to aggregate, abstract, and allocate infrastructure or hardware resources. Infrastructure Services can be categorized into:

VMware vCompute: vCompute services aggregate underlying disparate server resources across many discrete servers and assign them to applications.

VMware vStorage: The most efficient use and management of storage in virtual environments is enabled by this set of technologies.

VMware vNetwork: vNetwork is a set of technologies that simplify and enhance networking in virtual environments.

Application Services:

Application Services are the set of services provided to ensure security, scalability and availability for applications. Examples include Fault Tolerance and HA.

VMware vCenter Server:

It provides a single point of control of the datacenter or more technically it provides centralized management for datacenters. VMware vCenter Server provides essential datacenter services such as:

• Control
• Access
• Configuration
• And performance monitoring

Physical resources from multiple ESX/ESXi hosts are aggregated by vCenter Server. And are presented as a collection of simple and flexible resources for the system administrator, to provision to virtual machines in the virtual environment.

vCenter Server components are:

• User access control
• Core services
• Distributed services
• Plugins
• And various interfaces

Clients (VMTN Global Forums):

The VMware vSphere datacenter can be accessed by users through clients such as the vSphere Client or Web Access through a Web browser.

Today, the VMwear has software for the following layers & categories.

SDDC Platform:

The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) platform supports any device, any app and any cloud. It brings together VMware’s compute, storage and network virtualization into a natively integrated stack, delivering enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure capabilities that are common to both private and public clouds.

Cloud Foundation:

An easy way to deploy and run a hybrid cloud is provided by the VMware Cloud Foundation. VMware Cloud Foundation provides integrated cloud infrastructure which includes:

• Compute
• Storage
• Networking
• And security

Along cloud management services to run enterprise applications in both private and public environments.

Data Center & Cloud Infrastructure:

Begin the cloud journey with server virtualization. Progress toward a completely virtualized software-defined data center architecture: virtualize storage, networking, and security to create virtual data centers.

Simplify the provisioning of IT resources and applications and make them available for consumption in minutes. Round off a private cloud by automating management for optimum capacity utilization, compliance and performance with the following supporting VMware.

vSphere with Operations Management:

vSphere with Operations Management takes vSphere to the next level, with intelligent operations and consistent management. vSphere provides you with better insight,

resulting in stronger performance and availability.

vSphere:

With the world’s leading virtualization platform:

• Consolidate servers
• Improve availability
• Enhance performance o
• And optimize capacity

Networking & Security:

If your virtual machine network is connected to a physical network, it may be subject to violations, just like a network of physical machines. Although the virtual machine network is isolated from any physical network, the virtual machines in the network can be attacked by other virtual machines on the network. The requirements for securing virtual machines are often the same as for securing physical machines.

Virtual machines are isolated from each other. A virtual machine is not able to read or write the memory of another virtual machine, access its data, use its applications, and so on. However, within the network, any virtual machine or group of virtual machines can still be the target of unauthorized access from other virtual machines and require additional protection by external means. That is why the networking & security will be paramount important.

NSX:

NSX enables the creation of entire networks in software and embeds them in the hypervisor layer, abstracted from the underlying physical hardware. Without the need to modify the application, all network components can be provisioned in minutes. NSX is now also available as a service:

VMware NSX Cloud delivers consistent networking and security for cloud-native applications. The service improves operational scalability, control, and visibility – with lower OpEx – across native public clouds such as AWS.

AppDefense:

VMware AppDefense is one of the data center endpoint security products that protect applications running in virtualized environments. AppDefense understands an applications working and monitors for changes to that intended state that indicate a threat, rather than chasing after threats. When a threat is detected, AppDefense automatically responds.

vRealize Network Insight:

It delivers intelligent operations for software defined networking and security across virtual, physical and multi-cloud environments

VMware vRealize Network Insight helps it’s users build a highly-available, secure and optimized network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.

• It accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment
• Enables visibility across virtual and physical networks
• And provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

Storage & Availability:

Through pervasive hypervisor, VMware wants to germinate storage architectures, bringing to storage the quality of being cost-effective and efficiency and uncompounded that server virtualization brought to compute.

Through a virtual data plane, Software-defined storage (SDS) abstracts the underlying storage, making the VM and application, the fundamental unit of storage management and provisioning across heterogeneous storage systems.

By creating a flexible separation between available resources and applications, all IT resources needed by an application can be balanced by the hypervisor such as:

• Compute
• Memory
• Storage
• And networking

vSAN:

A core building block for the Software-Defined Data Center. Industry-leading Hyper-Converged Infrastructure solutions is powered by VMware vSAN with a vSphere-native, high-performance architecture.

Site Recovery Manager:

VMware Site Recovery Manager the leading disaster recovery software in industry enables application mobility and availability across sites in private cloud environments with:

• Policy-based management
• Non- disruptive testing
• And automated orchestration

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure:

vSAN ReadyNode:

Selecting a vSan ReadyNode involves just choosing the vSAN version you want to deploy,

• Pick a ReadyNode profile based on your specific needs
• Select your preferred server vendor
• And then pickone of the available models.

Cloud Management Platform:

vRealize Suite:

The industry’s most complete solution for managing a heterogeneous, hybrid cloud is delivered by vRealize Suite, an enterprise-ready, cloud management platform.

vRealize Automation:

The modern Software-Defined Data Center IT Automation tool, vRealize Automation enables IT Automation through the management and creation of:

• Personalized infrastructure
• Application
• And custom IT services (XaaS)

Rapidly deployment of IT services across a multi-vendor, multi-cloud infrastructure is enabled by this IT Automation.

vRealize Business for Cloud:

Enable IT Visibility for Cloud Cost Management

VMware vRealize Business for Cloud automates:

• Cloud cost analysis
• Consumption metering
• Cloud comparison
• And planning

thus delivering the business insights and cost visibility you need to run your cloud more efficiently.

vRealize Operations:

Intelligent IT operations management from infrastructure to applications across multi-cloud and SDDC.

VMware vRealize Operations integrated with vRealize Business and vRealize Log Insight for Cloud helps plan, manage and scale multi-cloud and SDDC environments with:

• Unified monitoring
• Automated performance management
• Cloud planning
• And capacity optimization

vCloud Suite:

vCloud Suite Is The Enterprise Ready Cloud Management Platform

It is an integrated offering that brings together VMware vRealize Suite multi-vendor hybrid cloud management platform and VMware’s industry-leading vSphere hypervisor. VMware’s new portable licensing units allow vCloud Suite to manage and build both multi-vendor hybrid clouds  as well as vSphere-based private clouds.

VMware Integrated OpenStack:

Boost Developer Productivity with Open APIs

It is a VMware-supported OpenStack distribution that makes it easy for IT to run an enterprise-grade OpenStack cloud on top of VMware virtualization technologies. To boost the productivity of developer provide developers with standard, simple, and vendor-neutral OpenStack API access to VMware infrastructure.

Network Functions Virtualization:

It has drawn significant attention from both academia and industry as an important shift in telecommunication service provisioning.

By decoupling network functions (NFs) from the physical devices on which they run, NFV has the potential to lead to significant reductions in operating expenses (OPEX) and capital expenses (CAPEX) and facilitate the deployment of new services with increased agility and faster time-to-value. The NFV paradigm is still in its infancy and there is a large spectrum of opportunities for the research community to develop new architectures, systems and applications, and to evaluate alternatives and trade-offs in developing technologies for its successful deployment.

vCloud NFV:

VMware vCloud NFV is the Network Functions Virtualization platform for Communications Service Providers. vCloud NFV is a fully integrated, modular, multi-tenant Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform. It provides:

• Compute
• Storage
• Networking
• Aanagement
• And operations capabilities

vCloud NFV helps you automate service lifecycle, simplify operations management and accelerate time to revenue—all while reducing network infrastructure costs.

VMware Integrated OpenStack Carrier Edition:

It is a VMware-supported OpenStack distribution, to deploy NFV services on OpenStack, it provides the fastest path for communications service providers (CSPs). It transforms CSP operations, business models and networks by delivering secure, agile, and highly available services.

Internet of Things (IoT):

Pulse IoT Center:

With VMware Pulse take Control of IoT.

An end-to-end infrastructure management solution, VMware Pulse IoT Center enables OT and IT organizations to manage, onboard, secure and monitor their IoT use cases.

Digital Workspace:

Workspace ONE:

Workspace ONE is an Integrated Digital Workspace Platform that securely and simply manages and delivers any app on any device by integrating:

• Access control
• Application management
• And multi-platform endpoint management

It is available for on-premises deployment or as a cloud service.

Workspace ONE App Express:

VMware Workspace ONE App Express simplifies the Delivery of Virtual Windows Apps by enabling access to virtual Windows apps in only a few clicks, on any device, anywhere.

Socialcast:

VMware Socialcast is a collaboration solution and secure enterprise chat that brings the right people, information, discussions, ideas and tools together in one place to get work done faster.

Desktop and Application Virtualization:

Horizon 7:

The leading platform for virtual applications and desktops, VMware Horizon 7 provides end users access to all of their virtual applications, online services and desktops through a single digital workspace.

Horizon Apps:

With VMware Horizon Apps, securely Deliver Published Apps Anywhere, to Any Device.

Get easy and quick access to all of your published mobile apps, SaaS apps and other apps through a single unified workspace.

Horizon Cloud:

With Horizon Cloud, deliver Cloud-Hosted Virtual Applications and Desktops.

VMware Horizon Cloud enables cloud-hosted or on-premises virtual apps and desktops delivery from a single cloud control plane to any device, anywhere.

Personal Desktop:

Fusion for Mac:

VMware Fusion, a Virtual Machine for Mac, allows Mac users to run Windows on Mac along with other operating systems without rebooting side by side with Mac applications. Fusion is powerful enough for IT professionals, businesses and developers and is simple enough for home users.

Workstation Pro

It lets You Run Multiple OSs as Virtual Machines on a Single Linux or Windows PC

Used as a standard in the industry for running multiple OSs as virtual machines on a single Windows or Linux PC. IT professionals, businesses and developers who test, build or demo software for any platform, device, or cloud rely on Workstation Pro.

Workstation Player:

With VMware Workstation Player, run a Second, Isolated OS on a Single PC.

To provide a simple yet stable and mature, local virtualization solution to its users, it leverages the VMware vSphere hypervisor.

Free Products:

vSphere Hypervisor:

A free bare-metal hypervisor, the vSphere Hypervisor virtualizes servers, thus allowing you to integrate your applications on less hardware.

vCenter Converter

VMware vCenter Converter transforms your Linux-and-Windows-based third-party image formats and physical machines to VMware virtual machines.

Software Manager

VMware Software Manager is a free Software Manager that makes the downloading of VMware products and suites dramatically simple. It also detects new versions and products.

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Strategic IT Priorities:

As the world is redefined by technology, driving new imperatives for every IT organization and creating new priorities for every business, Speeding the digital transformation of its customers, VMware empowers them to succeed and compete with software that reinvents the foundation of mobile and computing user experiences.

With a common operating environment, the VMware lets it’s customers use any cloud they choose, simple & secure digital workspaces, end-to-end security solutions, our services and solutions enable customers to build exactly what they need & the way they need it for today and tomorrow.

VMware enables companies to shape an unlimited future, by helping them accomplish the key missions that move them forward. Integrate Public Clouds, Modernize Data Centers, Transform Security, and Empower the Digital Workspace. The mentioned key missions align with the following four strategic IT prioritie:

• Modernize Data Centers

• Integrate Public Clouds

• Empower the Digital Workspace

• Transform Security

Technology Solutions:

The process of creating a software-based (or virtual) representation of something instead than a physical one is called Technology Solutions by Virtualization. Virtualization can apply to servers, applications, networks and storage and is the single most effective way to boost agility and efficiency for all size businesses while reducing IT expenses.

• Virtualization

• Virtualization Management

• Virtualizing Business Critical Applications

• Virtualizing Big Data

• Virtualizing High Performance Computing

• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

• Open Source @ VMware

• Internet of Things (IoT)

Industry Solutions:

See how a business outcomes in organizations across all industries is driven by VMware digital foundation. Integrate public clouds and Optimize data center infrastructure. Deliver secure access to information and apps with the digital workspace, anytime, anywhere. Transform compliance and security from the data center to the device. Team with the largest partner ecosystem of software vendors, manufacturers and OEMs along with VMware to support your business goals.

• Education

• Financial Services

• Government

• Healthcare

• Manufacturing

• Retail

• Telecommunication

Software Defined Data Center:

Innovate freely in the clouds of your choice with the VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™. Built on our industry-leading SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) foundation which brings together best-in-class storage, compute, cloud management and networking virtualization, our common operating environment lets you rapidly manage, run, secure and correct apps across clouds and devices.

• SDDC Overview

• Software Defined Storage (SDS)

• Software Defined Networking (SDN)

• VMware Validated Design