VMware Infrastructure
| Developer(s) | VMware, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
3.5 Update 4 / March 30, 2009
|
| Development status | renamed to VMware vSphere |
| Platform | x86-compatible |
| Type | Hypervisor |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | vmware |
VMware Infrastructure (VI) was a software suite of hardware virtualization products from VMware (a division of Dell EMC).
The suite included:
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.
Known limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 may constrain the design of data centers:
As of June 2008[update] limitations in VMware Infrastructure version 3.5 included the following:
No 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.
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