Build the Foundation of a Responsive Data Center
Create the foundation for the dynamic and automated data center with VMware ESX - the market leading hypervisor, production-proven at thousands of customers of all sizes. VMware ESX abstracts server processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines, forming the robust foundation of the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite. Since 2001 VMware ESX has set the standard for highest levels of performance, scalability and reliability.

Deploy the Most Advanced and Production-Proven Hypervisor
Virtualize even the most resource-intensive applications with the hypervisor that sets the industry standard for reliability, performance and cross-platform support.

VMware ESX is a “bare-metal” hypervisor that partitions physical servers in multiple virtual machines. Each virtual machine represents a complete system, with processors, memory, networking, storage and BIOS. VMware ESX enables multiple virtual machines to:

• Share physical resources
• Run unmodified operating systems and applications
• Run the most resource-intensive applications side by side on the same server

Benefits of VMware Virtualization

• Save money and streamline operations with server consolidation and containment by running software applications on fewer servers
• Provide high availability and disaster recovery to all your applications at a fraction of the complexity and cost of existing solutions
• Automate key processes to transform IT into a flexible and agile business partner

Reliably Run Multiple Operating Systems on a Single Server

• Deploy mature hypervisor technology that has been proven in tens of thousands of customer environments
• Virtualize any environment, from the corporate data center to the branch office, with a compatibility list that includes more than 200 server and storage systems, and the broadest range of supported guest operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Netware, and Solaris
• Achieve data center-class high availability with shared storage, SAN transparency, built-in storage access multipathing and support for Microsoft Clustering Services
• Enhance IT infrastructure security with LUN zoning and masking, VLAN traffic tagging and filtering, and enforcing security at the Ethernet layer

Get Higher Consolidation Ratios for the Most Resource Intensive Applications

• Run email, databases, ERP and other resource-intensive applications on VMware ESXi’s bare-metal architecture offering advanced memory management and support for scaled up physical and virtual machines
• Run virtual machines at twice the consolidation ratio possible with other first-generation hypervisors and minimize your hardware costs
• Enable a single virtual machine to use up to four physical processors with VMware Virtual SMP
• Leverage high performance shared storage for greater manageability, flexibility and availability with VMware VMFS – a high performance cluster file system optimized for virtual environments

Build a Dynamic Virtual Infrastructure

• VMware ESX and VMware ESXi form the robust foundation of the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite and are included in all VMware Infrastructure editions.
• VMware Infrastructure delivers improved service levels and operational efficiency by enabling centralized management, automatic load balancing, business continuity, power management and the ability to live migrate a virtual machine across physical machines to minimize service interruption.