Virtualization specialist VMware announced new features of Go, the
company’s Web-based service that provides small to medium-size
businesses with an on-ramp to virtualizing their applications by
automating the installation and configuration of VMware’s hypervisor,
ESXi. With Go, developed in partnership with VMware Technology Alliance
partner Shavlik Technologies, SMBs can virtualize servers and create
new virtual machines (VM), and those that have VMs on VMware Server can
also move to the more scalable ESXi platform, the company noted.
Another new feature of Go is Collective Intelligence, which helps guide
a customer's virtualization experience by aggregating user data to show
virtualization best practices. With Collective Intelligence, users can
view what other users have done in each stage of the virtualization
process so they can improve confidence while making virtualization
decisions. Additionally, users can view reports and dashboards with
such information as the average number of VMs users are creating per
ESXi server, the top five hardware types on which the community is
running ESXi, or the top five virtual appliances that have been
downloaded from Go.
"With the new features of VMware Go, we're providing the easiest
on-ramp to virtualization for SMBs -- at no cost," said Manoj
Jayadevan, director of emerging business and products at VMware. "Along
with the ability to seamlessly migrate VMs from VMware Server to ESXi,
the new Collective Intelligence guide for VMware Go makes it easier
than ever to quickly realize the full benefits of ESXi and enable SMBs
to maximize limited IT resources in just hours or days."
Go simplifies the virtualization process in three steps: Initial ESXi
server setup, using collective intelligence guides, a built-in hardware
compatibility check and automated migration, virtual machine migration,
which allows users to leverage existing physical server configuration,
install a prebuilt virtual appliance, or start with a new, clean
virtual machine and lastly, manage ESXi servers and virtual machines
with patch scan and remediation and monitoring.
Trevor Hart, vice president of marketing at Limos.com, a start-up
limousine rental company, said they chose to virtualize because they
needed to run a number of server OS's, preferring to segment each
business function into its own server. “Go got us up and running in
days rather than weeks,” he said. “We chose virtualization over
separate physical machines to save both money and time spent, not to
mention minimizing any compatibility issues."
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