Specifications

VMware and BEA WebLogic Solutions Deployment Guide
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VMware Infrastructure is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing IT
environments through virtualization – from the desktop to the data center. The only production-ready
virtualization suite, VMware Infrastructure is proven to deliver results at more than 20,000 customers of all
sizes, used in a wide variety of environments and applications. The suite is fully optimized, rigorously tested
and certified for the widest range of hardware, operating systems and software applications allowing for
enterprise-wide standardization independent of operating systems and hardware. VMware Infrastructure
provides built-in management, resource optimization, application availability and operational automation
capabilities that deliver transformative cost savings as well as increased operational efficiency, flexibility and
IT service levels.
VMware Infrastructure virtualizes and aggregates the underlying physical hardware resources across
multiple systems and provides pools of virtual resources to datacenter in the virtual environment.
In addition, VMware Infrastructure brings about a set of distributed services that enables fine-grain, policy-
driven resource allocation, high availability, and consolidated backup of the entire virtual datacenter. These
distributed services enable an IT organization to establish and meet their production Service Level
Agreements with their customers in a cost effective manner.
The relationships among the various components of the VMware Infrastructure are shown in figure 1.3.
Figure 1.3
VMware Infrastructure includes the following components:
VMware ESX Server – A robust, production-proven virtualization layer run on physical servers that
abstracts processor, memory, storage, and networking resources into multiple virtual machines.