VMware Announces the Industry’s First Hypervisor to Be Integrated in Server Hardware
VMware Announces the Industry’s First Hypervisor to Be Integrated in Server Hardware
By VSM News Staff published: Monday, September 10 2007
VMware raises the bar for reliability, security and ease of use for the virtualization platform
PALO ALTO, Calif., September 10, 2007 — VMware, Inc., the virtualization leader, today announced VMware ESX Server 3i, a next generation thin hypervisor to be integrated in server systems from the world’s largest computer companies including Dell, IBM, HP and others. With virtualization built into the hardware, deployment and management of virtual infrastructure is simpler than ever. With VMware ESX Server 31, customers are able to go from booting up a server to reaping the benefits of virtualization in a matter of minutes. VMware ESX Server 3i represents a major advance, delivering market-proven robustness, performance and scalability in a radically small footprint for unparalleled reliability and security. VMware ESX Server 3i will be showcased this week at VMworld 2007, the industry’s largest virtualization conference.
“In the seven years and three product generations since its release, ESX Server has become an industry-defining product, acclaimed for its quality and functionality,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president of product and solutions marketing for VMware. “Customers around the world have transformed their IT environments with virtual infrastructure. It has reduced their overall costs, simplified IT management and delivered unparalleled reliability and availability.”
“Today, VMware is ushering in a new era where virtualization is not separate from hardware, it is simply how industry-standard servers operate,” Raghuram continued. ”We have worked with our partners to integrate ESX Server directly into their hardware. Now customers can turn on their servers and boot directly into a fully-functioning hypervisor to rapidly and easily realize the benefits of virtualization. We expect this advance to simplify virtualization and make it accessible to customers of all sizes.”
ESX Server 3i is the new architectural foundation for VMware Infrastructure 3, the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing industry-standard IT environments through virtualization. VMware customers can easily implement the entire suite of VMware Infrastructure 3 products on top of this foundation, including VirtualCenter, VMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), High Availability (HA), and VMware Consolidated Backup.
Built on the legacy of VMware ESX Server, which has set the standard for production proven, stable and mature hypervisor, ESX Server 3i is a “bare metal” hypervisor that partitions a physical server into multiple secure and portable virtual machines. Designed for optimal scalability and performance, ESX Server 3i’s innovative new architecture also provides unmatched security, reliability and manageability in a compact, 32 MB package. ESX Server 3i is the only hypervisor on the market today that does not incorporate a general-purpose operating system, thus freeing it from the many challenges involved in maintaining a general purpose OS.
“ESX Server 3i will have a significant impact on the IT industry,” said Peter Amstutz, Chief, Network Design, Defense Contract Management Agency. “IT professionals will stop thinking about virtualization as an operating system or software, but really as a component of the hardware itself.”
Hardware vendors are expected to begin shipping ESX Server 3i within their products by the end of 2007 and over the course of 2008.
