Welcome to vmwarewolf.com

I started working at VMware in their technical support department right at the beginning of 2007, and what my instructor said was right- “The learning curve is straight up; 90 degrees”. Talk about hitting the ground running! The amount of information crammed into my head in this short time has been staggering! (This tech support stuff is actually old hat for me. I did it for twelve years at iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase in Waterloo, where I supported their SQL Anywhere product.)

I currently support our flagship product Virtual Infrastructure 3, which includes Virtual Center and ESX.

What is Virtualization and what are virtual machines?

Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilization and flexibility. Virtualization allows heterogeneous operating systems (e.g. Windows 2003 Server and Linux) and applications to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine.

A virtual machine is the representation of a physical machine by software. It has its own set of virtual hardware (e.g. RAM, CPU, NIC, hard disk etc.) upon which an operating system and applications are loaded. The operating system sees a consistent, normalized set of hardware regardless of the actual physical hardware components. VMware virtual machines contain advanced features such as 64-bit computing and virtual symmetric multiprocessing.

Disclaimer:

The views expressed anywhere on this site are strictly mine and not the opinions and views of VMWare.

VMware, Inc. is a provider of virtualization solutions. Its suite of virtualization solutions addresses a range of information technology (IT) problems that include infrastructure optimization, business continuity, software lifecycle management and desktop management. It offers a portfolio of products in three main categories: Virtualization Platforms, which includes a hypervisor for system partitioning that provides the capability to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same physical machine; Virtual Infrastructure Automation, which utilizes the benefits of its virtualization platforms to automate system infrastructure services, such as resource management, availability, mobility and security, and Virtual Infrastructure Management, which automate the interaction between various IT constituencies and the virtual infrastructure for a specific set of point solutions. As of December 31, 2006, it offered 16 products.