VMware has announced new features of VMware Go, a web-based service that provides small and medium businesses (SMBs) with an easy on-ramp to virtualizing their applications by automating the installation and configuration of the industry-leading hypervisor, VMware ESXi.
With VMware Go, SMBs can not only easily virtualize servers and create new virtual machines (VM), but customers that have created VMs on VMware Server can now move to the more scalable ESXi platform without losing the investment they’ve made in creating and fine tuning VMs.
Another new feature of VMware Go is Collective Intelligence, which helps guide a customer’s virtualization experience by aggregating user data to show virtualization best practices. With Collective Intelligence, users can view what other users have done in each stage of the virtualization process so they can be more confident they are making the right virtualization decisions.
Additionally, users can view reports and dashboards with such information as the average number of VMs users are creating per ESXi server, the top five hardware types on which the community is running ESXi, or the top five virtual appliances that have been downloaded from VMware Go.
VMware Go Simplifies and Accelerates Virtualization in Three Simple Steps:
1. Initial ESXi server setup
— Unique web-browser interface, intuitive wizard set-up, and collective intelligence guides accelerate installation and setup process.
— Built in hardware compatibility check automates the process of selecting physical server environments.
— Migrate VMware Server virtual machines to ESXi in an automated fashion.
2. Virtual machine creation
— Leverage existing physical server configuration, install a prebuilt virtual appliance, or start with a new, clean virtual machine.
3. Manage ESXi servers and virtual machines
— Basic management interface simplifies changes to a virtual environment.
— Monitor virtual machines for basic performance and resource utilization.
— Patch scan and remediation for ESXi.
— Scan and update virtual machines from a central console.
VMware Go was developed in partnership with Shavlik Technologies, a member of VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner Program.
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