VMware Infrastructure

In the field of computing, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI) consists of a suite of virtualization products from VMware, Inc. (a division of EMC Corporation). The suite includes:

• VMware ESX Server version 3
• VMware Virtual Center version 2
• Virtual SMP (which allows a guest operating system to "see" up to 4 CPUs in the virtual machine).

Users can supplement this software bundle by purchasing optional products, such as VMotion, as well as distributed services such as:

• VMware High Availability (HA)
• VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• VMware Consolidated Backup

VMware Inc. released VMware Infrastructure 3 in June 2006. The suite comes in three "editions": Starter, Standard and Enterprise.

Known limitations

Known limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 may constrain the design of data centers:^[1]

As of June 2008, limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 version 3.5 include the following:

• Guest system maximum RAM: 64 GB
• Number of guest CPUs: 4
• Number of hosts in a HA cluster: 32
• Number of hosts in a DRS cluster: 32
• Size of RAM per server: 256 GB
• Number of hosts managed by Virtual Center Server: 200
• Number of virtual machines managed by Virtual Center Server: 2000

Other limitations exist, for example, volume size is limited to 64 TB with no more than 6 SCSI controllers per virtual machine; maximum number of remote consoles to a virtual machine is 10.

See also

• Comparison of virtual machines: a list of related virtualization software products
• List of VMware software
• Virtual appliance
• Virtual machine
• Virtualization
• VMware VMFS, the VMware SAN file system
• X86 virtualization

References

External links

• VMware Infrastructure product page - VMware, Inc.
• VMware Infrastructure 3 documentation
• VMware Infrastructure 3 demo - YouTube