what is vmware. Advantages,disadvantages and features of vmware

                               a)Vmware

This is a platform where you will get everything on Virtual machine. Whether you need a virtual Datacenter, virtual server or desktop, you will get on vmware.

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Advantages of using VMware

• Cost effective use of hardware
• Large portions of your production environment can be replicated
on a few servers
• Lower cost of hardware for the entire test environment
• Faster rollback during testing
• Test VMs can be deleted after they are not needed

Disadvantages of using VMware

• Requires that your staff have some basic VMware
skills
• VMs are not good for load testing if your production environment
is completely physical

Features of VMware

Infrastructure services

The set of components that comprehensively virtualizes server, storage and network  resources, aggregate them and allocate them precisely on demand to applications based on business priority.

Application services

The set of components that provide built-in service level controls to all applications running on VMware, regardless of application type or operating system.

RAM over-commitment

Increase memory utilization by configuring virtual machine memory that safely exceeds the physical server memory. For example, the sum of the memory of all virtual machines running on a server with 8GB physical memory can be 16GB.