Build the Foundation of a Responsive Data Center

Create the foundation for the dynamic and automated data center
with VMware ESX - the market leading hypervisor, production-proven at thousands
of customers of all sizes. VMware ESX abstracts server processor, memory,
storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines, forming the
robust foundation of the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite. Since 2001 VMware ESX
has set the standard for highest levels of performance, scalability and
reliability.

Gain the Benefits of Virtualization with Bare-Metal
Hypervisors

• VMware ESX and VMware
  ESXi are “bare-metal” hypervisors that  partition
  physical servers in multiple virtual machines. Each virtual machine represents a
  complete system, with processors, memory, networking, storage and BIOS.
• Multiple virtual machines can share physical resources and run
  side by side on the same server.
• Operating systems and applications can run unmodified in
  virtual machines.
• VMware ESX and VMware ESXi form the robust foundation of the
  VMware Infrastructure 3 suite. VMware ESX and VMware ESXi are included in all
  VMware Infrastructure editions. Learn more about the VMware
  Infrastructure editions.

Benefits of Virtualization:

Leverage the Most Advanced and Production-Proven
Hypervisor

Virtualize even the most resource-intensive applications with
advanced resource management, high availability and security features.

• Virtualize mission critical applications with the hypervisor
  that sets the industry standard for reliability. Instances of VMware ESX have
  been running in production customer environments for more than 3 years without a
  second of downtime.
• Leverage the most advanced hypervisor capabilities that result
  from a decade of pioneering research and development in virtualization.
• Get from server boot to running virtual machines in a few
  minutes with VMware ESXi embedded in server systems.
• Virtualize any environment, from the corporate data center to
  the branch office, with a compatibility list that includes more than 200 server
  and storage systems. Run unmodified Windows, Linux, Solaris, and NetWare
  operating systems in virtual machines.
• Leverage high performance shared storage for greater
  manageability, flexibility and availability with VMware
  VMFS – a high performance cluster file system optimized
  for virtual environments.
• Run even the most resource intensive enterprise applications in
  virtual machines with expanded processor, memory and storage limits. Enable a
  single virtual machine to use up to four physical processors with VMware
  Virtual SMP.
• Optimize virtual machine resource allocation with minimum,
  maximum and proportional resource sharing for CPU, memory, disk and network
  bandwidth.
• Achieve data center-class high availability with shared
  storage, SAN transparency, built-in storage access multipathing and support for
  Microsoft Clustering Services.
• Enhance IT infrastructure security with LUN zoning and masking,
  VLAN traffic tagging and filtering, and enforcing security at the Ethernet
  layer.

VMware ESX and VMware ESXi are included in all VMware
Infrastructure editions. Learn more about the VMware
Infrastructure editions.

Özellikler

Small Footprint.¹ VMware ESXi’s 32MB
disk footprint is a fraction of the size of a general purpose operating system,
reducing complexity and providing unmatched security and reliability.

Server Integration.¹ VMware ESXi is
available built into server hardware as an embedded component, simplifying and
speeding deployment of virtualization.

Virtualization for
storage.  Leverage high performance shared storage to centralize
virtual machine file storage for greater manageability, flexibility and
availability.

• Virtual disk files.  Add or delete a
  VMware ESX server from a VMFS volume without pausing or halting the processing
  of other instances of VMware ESX.
• VMFS cluster file system.  Leverage high
  performance shared storage to centralize virtual machine file storage for
  greater manageability, flexibility and availability.
• Logical volume manager.  Manage the
  interaction between the physical storage arrays and VMFS with flexibility and
  reliability.
• Raw device mapping.  Optionally, map SAN LUNs
  directly to a virtual machine in order to enable application clustering and
  array-based snapshot technology while profiting from the manageability benefits
  of VMFS.
• Fibre Channel HBA consolidation.  Share
  expensive storage network components across many virtual machines while
  maintaining hardware fault tolerance.
• Write-through I/O.  Ensure precise recovery of
  virtual machines in the event of server failure. Write-through I/O enables
  virtual machines to have the same recovery characteristics as a physical system
  running the same operating system.
• Boot from SAN.  Run VMware ESX installations
  on diskless configurations of blade and rack mount servers by booting from SAN.
  Simplify backups and disaster recovery by eliminating the need to separately
  backup local attached server disks.

Virtualization for Networking.  Network virtual
machines like physical machines. Build complex networks within a single VMware
ESX server or across multiple installations of VMware ESX for production
deployments or development and testing purposes.

• Virtual NICs.  Configure each virtual machine
  with one or more virtual NICs. Each of those network interfaces can have its own
  IP address and even its own MAC address. As a result, virtual machines are
  indistinguishable from physical machines from a networking standpoint.
• Virtual switches.  Create a simulated network
  within a VMware ESX server with virtual switches that connect virtual machines.
  
• Expanded port configuration
  policies.  Simplify port configuration by utilizing a single
  configuration object across large groups of ports. The configuration object
  specifies all information needed to enable a port: NIC teaming policy (now per
  port instead of per virtual switch), VLAN tagging, Layer 2 security, and traffic
  shaping.
• VLAN.  Overlay a logical LAN on top of
  physical LANs to isolate network traffic for security and load segregation
  purposes. VMware ESX VLANs are compatible with standard VLAN implementations
  from other vendors. Modify network configurations without having to change
  actual cabling and switch setups. VLANs keep broadcast traffic limited to the
  VLAN, reducing the network load of broadcast packets on other switches and
  network segments.

¹Available only for VMware ESXi

Security

Compatibility with SAN security
practices.  Enforce security policies with LUN zoning and LUN masking.

ve daha fazlası için http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/features.html

selamlar

savaşcım tercüme ediversene 🙂 şaka biyana 550$ gibi birşey yazıyor firmanın sitesinde. Daha pahallı değilmilydi bu yazılım?

Ben 1.500 usd diye hatırlıyorum satış fiyatını.
Yurt dışı fiyatı 1000 usd seviyelerinde idi
buy dan bakıp öğrenebilirsin
selamlar

Vmware'in sitesinde ESX göremedim ESXI var. Ayırca  ESXI ücretsiz olduğu yazıyor. http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/ bu adresde. Acaba ücretsiz download hakkı sunup desteğemi para alıyorlar?

selam
http://vmware.com/products/esxi/buy.html bu linke bakarsanız free diyor
yanılmışım
selamlar

Merhaba.

esxi için, esx in OEM şekli diyebiliriz. Sunucu ile bundle olarak gelir. Sunucu içinde takılı bir USB disk şeklindedir. (IBM HP DELL ile alınabilir. Diğer markalar destekliyormu bilemiyorum)

Ancak 2008 den itibaren free olarak sunuldugu bilgisi var.

Tabi ESX ile ESXi arasında birtakım farklar vardır.

DELL'in bu konudaki yorumu

ESXi 3.5, VMware tarafından Dell ile birlikte yerleşik
sanallaştırma işlemlerini kolaylaştırmak üzere geliştirilmiş yeni nesil sanal
makine denetleyicisi teknolojisidir. Dell, paylaşılan depolama alanı barındıran
ortamlarda kolay dağıtım ve daha yüksek güvenlik için yerleşik VMware ESXi 3.5
kullanımını değerlendirmeye almanızı önerir. Sanallaştırma sistemleri
VMware tarafından geliştirilen yeni sanal makine denetleyicisi mimarisine uyum
sağladıkça, CD-ROM tabanlı VMware ESX 3.5 üçüncü taraf yönetim araçlarıyla en
geniş uyumluluğu sunmaya ve en sağlam yönetim ortamını sağlamaya devam
edecektir.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pedge/topics/tr/emea/pedge_hypervisor?c=tr&l=tr&s=bsd