5 Less Known but Crucial Features of VMware Solutions

VMware is a virtualization and cloud computing software that was founded in 1988. It’s a subsidiary of Dell Technologies. With VMware solutions server virtualization, a hypervisor gets installed on the physical server to allow multiple virtual machines to run.

Each VMware solution has its own operating system, meaning OSes can run on one physical server.

Features:

●     Flexible Compute Shapes:

The VMware solution offers flexible compute instances as X7 dense 52-core Intel Xeon and E4 dense 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. It comes in customized shapes with 32, 64 and 128 core configurations and better memory capacity than host devices.

The third-generation AMD EPYC processors run between 2.55 and 3.5 GHz with up to 256 MB of L3 cache. They come up with 2 TB of RAM, 100 Gb/sec of network bandwidth, and 54.4 TB of NVMe internal disk and are available in 32-, 64-, and 128-core configurations.

The X7 dense instance includes a base frequency of 2.0 GHz and a max turbo of 2.4 GHz. It has up to 768 GB of RAM and 50 Gb/sec network bandwidth.

●     Security and Storage:

You can stay sure with Secure Boot and the Trusted Platform Module, providing built-in security against ransomware attacks. This ensures that only valid and authenticated software hardens the firmware security of ESXi instances.

VMware Certified NFSv3 Cloud Datastore is specially designed for disaster recovery and backup use cases. It offers a flexible and secure enterprise-grade secondary storage solution.

With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring and Notifications, users can create defined alarm severity and push notifications to SMS and PagerDuty.

●     Integrated Solutions:

VMware vSphere Replication enables disaster recovery with policy-based management and ensures fast and highly predictable recovery times. Site recovery manager automates orchestration and integrates native applications.

Due to cloud-based Windows virtual desktops and applications, you can easily extend desktop services in the cloud to reduce capital expenditure.

VMware vRealize Automation delivers infrastructure as a service.

●     Handle Workloads:

VMware Solution allows customers to move workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) without modification. With VMware-based tools and processes, customers can gain scale and agility.

With this technology, you can migrate applications without making changes, then leverage OCI’s services.

VMware Solution’s bare metal computer provides customers with 156 cores. The highest CPU core count is available for any VMware-based solution today.

●     Dedicated Environments:

VMware solutions offer self-service provisioning and full administrative permissions that include root access. This offers complete control over the entire hardware and software environment.

It’s a single-tenant solution ideal for customers whose workloads demand isolated infrastructure. VMware avoids resource contention, which is found in competitive and multitenant environments.

This reduces risks with Oracle Cloud's security-first architecture that uses built-in tenant isolation, zero trust access, and data encryption at rest.

With no managed service security implications, access is private and entirely under the customer’s control.

What are VMware Workstations?

VMware workstations include type 2 hypervisors. Unlike a Type 1 hypervisor, which replaces the underlying OS, a Type 2 hypervisor runs as an application on the desktop OS and lets desktop users run a second OS atop their main (host) OS.

It comes in two versions:

• Workstation Player: It’s a free version that supports a single guest OS.
• Workstation Pro: It supports multiple guest operating systems and integrates with VMware management engines.

Benefits:

●     Improves ROI:

VMware enables you to use more of a computer's resources. Administrators don’t like to run mission-critical applications on a single server OS; if one application crashes, it can make the OS unstable.

One way to eliminate this risk is to use its OS on its dedicated physical server. VMware can run each application in its OS on the same physical server, and better use the physical server’s available CPU power.

●   More Efficient:

VMware enables you to run more applications using fewer physical servers smoothly. These servers need less space in your data center and less energy to cool your device.

Conclusion:

VMware solutions offer a range of benefits such as efficiency, adaptability, integrated solutions, and so on. By using this technology, companies can adapt to the latest changing technologies.