Vmware Tools

TOPIC: VMWARE TOOLS Introduction: Virtualization reduces IT costs while increasing the efficiency and utilization of existing assets. So it is becoming more popular among IT companies. VMware is one of the companies which supplies products for datacenter virtualization is leading the pack. VMware’s ESX/ESXi is one of the enterprise-level virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc. ESX is a component of VMware Infrastructure, it adds management and reliability services to the core server product. This is one of the widely used tools in Server Virtualization. ) Architecture: VMWARE ESX (white Paper): This white paper provided by VMware Inc has the details for all the underlying components in ESX framework. It explains the startup and operation process, colored figures are embedded in the document about the layers. The ESX Server architecture allows administrators to allocate hardware resources to multiple workloads in fully isolated environments called virtual machines. 2) VM ware hypervisor still king for enterprise-class workloads (News Article): This article in network world outlines the comparison between VMware with other competitors. According to research conducted by the Burton Group VMware is still the preferred virtualization vendor which meets most of the enterprise requirements, while rivals Citrix, Microsoft and Virtual Iron are trying to meet the meet the goal, VMware, is the market share leader in x86 virtualization, offers 100% of the features required to run enterprise-class, production workloads with the vSphere hypervisor. 3) VMware ESXI demo (VMware website) This demo provides the basic introduction, uses & features of VMware’s ESXI . It compares ESXI with the competitors in the market. This is created by VMware and is posted on the product website. 4) Examining VMware ESX Server This journal in DR Dobbs website outlines some of the advantages of VMware server. Columbia university students conducted an experiment in their computer science department. By using VMware, they were able to give students a flexible virtual kernel-level development environment where the operating systems are being developed, debugged, and rebooted in a shared computing lab environment without affecting other application user’s experiments. ) Application of virtualization and information integration technology in a power dispatching center This article explains how VMware ESX server platform can be utilized to manage information in a power dispatching center. The information integration is divided into five levels i. e. hardware integration, data integration, software module integration, business process integration, and application access integration and provides detailed integratio n scheme. Unfortunately the full text is not available for this article. ) Book: VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers Chapter 1: System considerations This chapter provides the information regarding the installation of VMware ESX server. It gives the necessary system requirements for the VMware ESX Server for Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers in the Enterprise. . This chapter is a good place to start when you need to find out where else in the book to go look for coverage of an issue. Analysis of Research I have chosen this topic to learn and do some recommendation of VMware tools used for server virtualization to our group, so I started my research by going to VMware website, VMware ESXI demo and white paper for architecture were the two most useful sources for the research. Then I went to Penn state databases IEEE, Inspec and got the information for the news article that it has slight edge on the competitors. And from the Dobbs journal it is proven from the experiment conducted by the Columbia University that with VMware we can create, delete applications on virtual servers without rebooting the actual server. And finally the journal regarding VMware using in Power dispatch center will be a good example to recommend to our group. How documents relate to each other: The documents started with the introduction of the VMware tools and provided with architecture and demonstration of most popular VMware ESXi server. The article in network world proves that VMware Esx has slight edge over the competitors. The journals provide how VMware server works in different environments like Power Sector and University. Finally the chapter in the books gives us the existing system capabilities to install VMware tools. References: Architecture of VMWARE ESXi. Whitepaper. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from http://www. vmware. com/files/pdf/ESXi_architecture. pdf) Jon Brodkin (2009). VMware hypervisor still king for enterprise-class workloads. Network world. Retrieved January 29, 2010 Product Demo Video. Retrieved January 29, 2010, from http://download3. vmware. com/demos/esxi/VMware_ESXi. html Jason Nieh and Ozgur Can Leonard(2000). Examining VMware retrieved January 29 1010 from Dr Dobb’s Journal (www. DDJ. com) Zhang Liang (East China Grid Co. Ltd. , Shanghai, China); Ge Minhui; Bi Xiaoliang (2008). Application of virtualization and information integration technology in a power dispatching center retrieved January 29 1010 from engineering village. Source: Automation of Electric Power Systems, v 32, n 16, p 38-42, 25 Aug. 2008 Edward L. Haletky (2007). VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers retrieved January 29 1010 from Safari books Online: By: Pub. Date: December 29, 2007