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VMware Server Free for Windows and Servers

What Is VMware Server? VMware® Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers. It enables companies to partition a physical server Application Application Application Application into multiple virtual machines and to start experiencing the benefi ts of virtualization. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to Windows Linux Windows Linux use product for users new to server virtualization technology and Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine is based on VMware’s proven technology, which has been used by thousands of customer for more than six years. VMware Server

What Is a Virtual Machine? Windows or Linux A virtual machine is like a server, but instead of electronics, it’s Hardware software. A virtual machine runs operating systems and applica- tions just like a physical server. However, they off er users many advantages over physical servers. Virtual machines: VMware Server partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines. • Run on any physical server. • Access all physical host hardware resources such as CPU, VMware Server isolates each virtual machine from its host and memory, disk, networking and peripherals. other virtual machines, leaving them unaff ected if the virtual • Can be provisioned and moved quickly. machine crashes. Data does not leak across virtual machines and applications can only communicate over confi gured network con- • Are completely isolated and secure. nections. VMware Server encapsulates a virtual machine environ- • Can run simultaneously and safely on the same physical server. ment as a fi le, which is easy to back-up, move and copy. • Are portable, so full systems including virtual hardware, oper- ating systems and fully confi gured applications can be easily What Are the Benefits of VMware Server? moved from one physical server to another, even while in operation. By creating and running virtual machines with VMware Server, users can: • Can be built and distributed as plug-and-play virtual appliances that contain the entire stack of virtual hardware, operating • Provision additional servers in minutes without investing in new system and fully confi gured software applications. hardware. • Run Windows and Linux operating systems and applications on How Does VMware Server Work? the same physical server. • Increase the utilization of a physical server. VMware server installs and runs as an application on top of a host Windows or Linux operating system. A thin virtualization layer • Move virtual machines from one physical server to another with- partitions the physical server so multiple virtual machines can out re-confi guration. be co-located on a single server.

Existing applications can run alongside virtual machines on “Off ering VMware Server for free will bring VMware’s proven virtualization the host server. Computing resources of the physical server are technology to a wider audience, allowing companies to achieve the benefi ts treated as a uniform pool of resources that can be allocated to of virtualization, such as cost reductions and fl exible server provisioning.” virtual machines in a controlled manner. Craig Liess Server Administrator, Central Transport VMWARE SERVER PRODUCT DATASHEET

How Can I Use VMware Server? With VMware Server you can: • Streamline software development and testing by allowing de- • Simplify server provisioning by building a virtual machine once velopers to create multiple environments with diff erent operat- and deploying it multiple times. ing systems on the same server. • Leverage pre-built, ready-to-run virtual appliances that include • Evaluate software in ready-to-run virtual machines without in- virtual hardware, operating system and application environ- stallation and confi guration. ments. Virtual appliances for Web, fi le, print, DNS, email, proxy and other infrastructure services are available for download on • Re-host legacy operating systems such as Windows NT Server VMware’s Virtual Machine Center at www.vmware.com/vmtn/ 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server in a virtual machine running on vm. new hardware and operating system.

Get VMware Server Now. VMware Server is available for immediate download at www.vmware.com/download/server.

KEY FEATURES

• Installs like an application and runs • Support for any Windows or Linux • Support for any VMware or Microsoft on any standard x86 hardware application, including pre-built virtual virtual machine format and Symantec appliances from VMware Technology LiveState Recovery images (with VM • Support for Intel® Virtualization Network (VMTN) Importer) Technology • Quick and easy, wizard-driven • Easy upgrade path to VMware ESX • Support for 64-bit guest operating installation similar to any desktop Server and other production-proven systems software VMware products • Support for two-way Virtual SMP • Quick and easy, wizard-driven virtual • Runs on a wider variety of Windows machine creation and Linux host and guest operating • Virtual machine monitoring and systems than any server virtualization management with an intuitive, user product on the market friendly remote console

SPECIFICATIONS Each virtual machine provides a platform that includes:

Processor Floppy Drives • Wireless networking supported with bridged and NAT • Red Hat Linux • Intel® Pentium® II or later, or AMD Athlon or later, • Up to two 1.44MB fl oppy devices networking • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 7, 8 and 9 depending on host processor; Intel EMT64T VT • Floppy drives can be physical drives or fl oppy images • SUSE Linux (experimental support) Virtual Networking and File Sharing • Nine virtual Ethernet switches (three reserved for • Turbolinux • Single and multiprocessors per virtual machine with Serial (COM) Ports bridged, host-only and NAT networking) • Mandriva Linux Virtual SMP capabilities • Up to four serial (COM) ports • Output to serial ports, named pipes, or fi les • Virtual Ethernet support includes TCP/IP, NetBEUI, • FreeBSD Memory Microsoft Networking, Samba, Novell® NetWare® and • Ubuntu • Up to 3.6GB per virtual machine USB Ports Network File System • Sun Solaris x86 9, 10 • Two-port USB 1.1 UHCI controller • Built-in NAT supports client software using TCP/IP, FTP, IDE Drives • 64-bit Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 x64 • Supports devices including USB printers, scanners, DNS, HTTP and Telnet Edition; Windows XP Professional x64 Edition; Windows • Up to four devices (including disks, CD-ROM, or DVD- PDAs, hard disk drives, memory card readers and still Vista x64 Edition (experimental); Redhat Enterprise ROM) Guest Operating Systems digital cameras Linux 3, 4; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; SUSE Linux • Windows Server 2003 Web, Standard, and Enterprise • Physical disk devices or fi le system-based virtual disks 10; SUSE Linux Pro; Ubuntu 5.10, 5.04 (experimental); Printer, Keyboard and Mouse Editions up to 128GB Solaris 10 (experimental) • CD-ROM can be a physical device or an ISO image fi le • Up to two bi-directional printer (LPT) ports • Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server • Output to printer ports or host fi les • Windows 2000 Professional; Windows 2000 Server and SCSI Devices • 104-key Windows enhanced keyboard Windows 2000 Advanced Server • Up to 21 devices (including disks, CD-ROM or DVD- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS • PS/2 mouse • Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows NT Server ROM) on 3 virtual SCSI controllers 4.0 Host Operating Systems • SCSI virtual disks up to 256GB BIOS • Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home • Runs on 2000 Server and Advanced • LSI Logic Ultra160 or Mylex® (BusLogic) BT-958 • PhoenixBIOS™ 4.0 Release 6-based BIOS Edition Server; Windows Server 2003, Web, Standard, compatible host bus adapter • DMI/SMBIOS compliant for system management agent • Windows Me Enterprise and x64 Editions, and Linux server host OSes • Generic SCSI device support support • Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE Graphics Ethernet Card • Windows 95 (all OSR releases) Go to: www.vmware.com/support/pubs/server_pubs. html for a full list of supported devices • VGA and SVGA support • Up to four virtual Ethernet cards • Windows 3.1, MS-DOS 6 • AMD® PCnet™ -PCI II compatible • Novell NetWare 4.2, 5.1, 6.0 and 6.5 • PXE ROM version 2.0 • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3 and 4 (AS, ES and WS)

VMware, Inc. 3145 Porter Drive Palo Alto CA 94304 USA Tel 650-475-5000 Fax 650-475-5001 www.vmware.com © 2006 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Protected by one or more of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,397,242, 6,496,847, 6,704,925, 6,711,672, 6,725,289, 6,735,601, 6,785,886, 6,789,156, 6,795,966, 6,880,022, 6,961,941, 6,961,806 and 6,944,699; patents pending. VMware, the VMware “boxes” logo and design, Virtual SMP and VMotion are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Item No.: VM_SVR_US_01.06