VMware vSphere (formerly
VMware Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure is a collection of virtualization products from VMware. Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples hardware from operating systems. The VMware Infrastructure suite allows enterprises to optimize and manage their ...
4) is
VMware's
cloud computing
Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...
virtualization platform.
It includes vCenter Configuration Manager, as well as vCenter Application Discovery Manager, and the ability of vMotion to move more than one
virtual machine
In computing, a virtual machine (VM) is the virtualization or emulator, emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve ...
at a time from one host server to another.
On February 12, 2024, VMware owner
Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational corporation, multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data cen ...
discontinued general availability of vSphere Hypervisor free edition.
Releases
* On February 10, 2011 VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 to add support for
RHEL 6, RHEL 5.6,
SLES 11 SP1 for VMware,
Ubuntu
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10.10, and
Solaris 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 and VMware announced the availability of
SAP HANA for production use on VMware vSphere 5.5.
* On February 3, 2015, VMware announced vSphere 6.0 with many new features and enhancements.
* 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.
See also
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vCenter is the centralized management utility
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VMware ESX/ESXi, the hypervisor operating system component
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VMware VMFS, the VMware file system component
Reference list
External links
VMware Infrastructure product page- VMware, Inc.
{{Virtualization products
vSphere
Virtualization software
Proprietary software