What is the name of the product that is the next version of VMware Server 2.0?

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archimed75922011-09-14 08:45:11

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archimed7592, 2011-09-14 08:45:11

Habr, hello.

We have a server, a lot of resources, idle. I decided to deploy a couple of virtual machines on it to test new versions of libraries, etc. At first I went along the path most familiar to me - I installed VMware Workstation. Everything is fine with it, but when it is running on the host to which I am connected via RDP (in windowed mode, not full screen), the player constantly loses focus. Accordingly, to make a double click, you need to do it without moving the mouse even a pixel :). Inconvenient, in general.

I looked at the product line - I saw a free VMware Server, installed it, everything is fine, only it broke the network (he is not talking about that now) and, as far as I understand, there is no support for Win7 / W2k8R2 in it. I read somewhere that the product is already legacy.

The next version seems to be vSphere. I would be happy to download it and install it, but I don’t know what product I need (and they have a lot of them and a small cart). Let me explain: VMware Server runs in the host OS, while vSphere ESX is a “bare metal” solution, i.e. acts as a hypervisor. A hypervisor is not required - it is the mode of operation in the host OS that is required.

Actually, the question is: what in the vSphere line is a virtualization server running on top of an already installed OS?

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kocherman, 2011-09-14
@kocherman

vSphere is a set of applications:
- ESX, ESXi is an OS that is installed on hosts (servers on which virtual machines will run)
- Center - a program for central management and distribution of virtual machines across
VMware hosts exists mainly in three configurations
Workstation - for Windows
Fusion - for other OS
vShpere - for server production virtualization

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4dmonster, 2011-09-14
@4dmonster

VMware Server 2 works perfectly fine on W2k8R2, and the network - check your settings, most likely they were wrong.
And it seems to me that the server would be best for you, it starts the virtual machine as a service.

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Saiputdin Omarov, 2011-09-14
@generalx

it doesn't exist... I follow this application myself (and the last build was a long time ago 2009/10/26.

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Pavel, 2015-06-10
@pbt39

Oddly enough, there is no such thing ....
maybe VMware Player will arrange it?
Else ESXi