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VMware VirtualSMP
Scale your Virtual Infrastructure for Mission-Critical Environments
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"ESX Server 2 with
Virtual SMP is key to Praxair’s IT server consolidation
strategy. Our goal is to provide an IT infrastructure
that enhances the company’s business agility. With
VMware’s virtualization technology we can reduce costs
and maximize resource utilization while at the same time
creating a more flexible, efficient infrastructure that
responds rapidly to changing business
requirements"
-- Larry
Lichten
Director of Infrastructure, PRAXAIR
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What Is VMware
Virtual SMP?
VMware Virtual SMP is an add-on module to
VMware ESX Server 2 that makes it possible for a single virtual
machine to span multiple physical processors. VMware Virtual SMP
allows multiple processors to work in parallel while using only a
single guest operating system image, making it ideal for scaling
your virtual infrastructure to handle the most resource-intensive
applications. Only VMware provides symmetric multiprocessing
functionality for Intel-based virtual machines.
How Is VMware Virtual SMP Used in the
Enterprise?
VMware Virtual SMP enables enterprises to deploy
their entire range of mission-critical applications -- from file and
print services to the most resource intensive applications -- in
secure, portable, virtual machines that take advantage of today's datacenter-class hardware.
VMware Virtual SMP allows enterprises to:
- Easily scale computing environments
without adding new hardware. Let multiple processors work
together to share the workload and increase the utilization of
existing IT infrastructure.
- Consolidate the most resource-intensive
applications onto fewer servers. Run business-critical
applications and programs such as Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft
Exchange Server, Lotus Notes, SAP, Siebel, BEA WebLogic, and
Apache on fewer physical servers.
- Streamline and improve software
development and deployment processes. Create more realistic
development and testing environments by building standard SMP
virtual environments for rapid deployment.
 VMware Virtual
SMP enables a single virtual machine to span multiple physical
processors.
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How Does VMware Virtual SMP
Work?
VMware Virtual SMP is based on the company’s
patented virtual machine technology that transforms physical
computers into a pool of computing resources. Until VMware Virtual
SMP, virtual machines were limited to using a single CPU. With
VMware Virtual SMP multiple processors share the workload of
resource-intensive applications and tasks running in a guest
operating system. Operating systems and applications are isolated in
multiple virtual machines and are allocated to any virtual machine
based on need or performance.
Why Does My Business Need Virtual
SMP?
Enterprise IT teams look to VMware and Virtual SMP to
run their business-critical, resource-intensive applications on
Intel-based servers. VMware Virtual SMP delivers:
- Increased performance.
- Better utilization of system resources.
- More realistic test and development environments.
- Significant reductions in computing total cost of ownership
(TCO).
Availability
VMware
Virtual SMP is now available for purchase as an add-on module for
VMware ESX Server 2. If you would like to purchase, evaluate or get
more information about ESX Server 2 and Virtual SMP,
contact Five IT directly on +44 (0)845 123 2913 or email
sales@FiveIT.co.uk.
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