Need a system or two to validate a new architecture? When combined with Linux, VMware Server provides a sophisticated and highly adaptable infrastructure that allows you to test complex customer client-server software configurations on a single machine.
If you’re lucky enough to work from home or if you work in IT in a large company, you may sometimes find it difficult to acquire enough equipment and infrastructure to validate a solution. Production equipment can’t be perturbed, nor can your desktop or laptop, which dutifully serves as your personal production environment. So what’s a system administrator, architect, or software developer to do? You could stockpile equipment for a rainy day, but thanks to virtualization software such as Xen and VMware Server, a new (albeit virtual) machine is just a few mouse clicks away.
In combination with Linux, VMware Server provides a sophisticated and highly adaptable infrastructure that allows you to test complex customer client-server software configurations on a single machine. Multiple instances of operating systems may run at once, each in its own virtual machine, segregated from your desktop or laptop’s own operating system. Operating system images can be cloned and copied between systems, significantly reducing development and testing time, especially when a complex software software stack needs to be refreshed, reloaded, or reconfigured.
Use VMware Server to test Linux and open source solutions such as Apache, JBOSS, and MySQL; prototype a system based on Solaris 10; evaluate “fat stack” desktop applications running on Windows, particularly those requiring VPN access or client software that can easily corrupt a desktop; and run completely protected, segregated network applications consolidated under a single system. Use your imagination: With VMware, you carry a virtual machine room on your…
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