VMware vSphere (formerly
VMware Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure is a collection of virtualization products from VMware (a division of Dell Technologies). Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples hardware from operating systems. The VMware Infrastructure suite allows enterpri ...
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VMware
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software ru ...
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cloud computing
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virtualization platform.
It includes an updated vCenter Configuration Manager, as well as vCenter Application Discovery Manager, and the ability of vMotion to move more than one
virtual machine
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at a time from one host server to another.
Releases
* On 10 February 2011 VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 to add support for
RHEL
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6, RHEL 5.6,
SLES 11 SP1 for VMware,
Ubuntu
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10.10, and
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10 Update 9.
* On July 12, 2011, VMware released version 5 of VMware vSphere.
* On August 27, 2012, VMware released vSphere 5.1. This extended vSphere to include VMware vSphere Storage Appliance, vSphere Data Protection, vSphere Replication and vShield Endpoint.
* In May 2014
SAP
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and VMware announced the availability of
SAP HANA
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for production use on VMware vSphere 5.5.
* On February 3, 2015, VMware announced vSphere 6.0 with many new features and enhancements.
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* On October 18, 2016, VMware announced vSphere 6.5 focusing on a simplified experience and improving security features.
* On April 17, 2018, VMware announced vSphere 6.7 focusing on simple and efficient management at scale, further improved security features, a universal application platform, and seamless hybrid cloud experience.
* On March 10, 2020, VMware announced vSphere 7.0.
* On September 15, 2020, VMware announced vSphere 7.0 Update 1.
* On March 9, 2021, VMware announced vSphere 7.0 Update 2.
* On August 30, 2022, VMware announced vSphere 8.0.
[https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2022/08/introducing-vsphere-8-the-enterprise-workload-platform.html]
See also
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VMware ESX
VMware ESXi (formerly ESX) is an enterprise-class, type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and serving virtual computers. As a type-1 hypervisor, ESXi is not a software application that is installed on an operating system (OS); ...
/ESXi, the hypervisor operating system component
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VMware VMFS
VMware VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is VMware, Inc.'s clustered file system used by the company's flagship server virtualization suite, vSphere. It was developed to store virtual machine disk images, including snapshots. Multiple servers ...
, the VMware file system component
Reference list
External links
VMware Infrastructure product page- VMware, Inc.
{{Virtualization products
vSphere
VMware vSphere (formerly VMware Infrastructure 4) is VMware's cloud computing virtualization platform.
It includes an updated vCenter Configuration Manager, as well as vCenter Application Discovery Manager, and the ability of vMotion to move m ...
Virtualization software
Proprietary software