Wednesday, February 10, 2010

VMware Go a Free Server Virtualization Option

Small to medium sized businesses don't have to pay a lot for good hypervisors and virtualization tools these days.  Free tools like Microsoft's Hyper-V, Red Hat's KVM, and Citrix's XenServer are popular with small to medium IT departments.  In an effort to compete with these free tools, VMware just released  VMware Go, a free service for managing the VMware ESXi embedded hypervisors (including ESX Server 3i, ESXi 3.5, and ESXi 4.0), which are also free.  After the beta testing period, which started last summer and included over 1,000 testers, SMBs now have
another option for cheaply running multiple operating systems and applications on a single server.

Read more: DZone
Official site: VMware Go

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