VMware has finally released VMware Server 1.0 (formerly known as Vmware GSX), it’s their free version of a Virtual Server product. The product has been in beta the last few months. What looks really good in the product is the feature with the ability to capture entire state of a virtual machine and roll back at any time with the click of a single button, that’s perfect for development and test systems.
VMware Server is feature-packed with the following capabilities:
- Runs on standard x86 hardware
- Support for 64-bit guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, NetWare and Solaris
- Support for VMware VirtualCenter to efficiently provision, monitor and manage infrastructure from a central management console
- Experimental support for 2-Way Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors
- Runs on a wider variety of Linux and Windows host and guest operating systems than any server virtualization product on the market
- Ability to capture entire state of a virtual machine and roll back at any time with the click of a single button
- Installs like an application with quick and easy, wizard-driven installation
- Quick and easy, wizard-driven virtual machine creation
- Support for VMware or Microsoft virtual machine format and Symantec LiveState Recovery images with VM Importer
- Experimental support for Intel Virtualization Technology
- Investment protection with an easy upgrade path to VMware Infrastructure
Read more about it at Vmware’s Press release.
Download Vmware Server 1.0.