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VMWare Converter

Tired of being stuck in the physical world? Can’t find a way to move you Windows or Linux OS from one physical server to another one? Have you been longing into a system that runs on a old piece of hardware and you need to move it over to a new server? If you had any of these issues there is a pretty good solution for you – it’s called physical to virtual conversion and VMWare has an application to do just that. You can use an application called VMWare Converter to that conversion. VMWare Converter allows you to move your existing OS, applications and settings from one physical or virtual server to another location. With VMware Converter you don’t have to rebuild your OS and applications from scratch and it won’t slow you down and impede your progress. The Converter is state of the art application which allows you to pick and choose everything you had running on a server or just any Windows computer and migrate it as one image to a new server and you can do multiple simultaneous conversions.

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These simultaneous physical to virtual conversions will enable your large scale implementation or just one off jobs to recreate your old environment on to the new servers without sacrificing quality. With VMWare Converter you are in complete control of your system conversions without having to compromise on the important issues (such as compatibility) to your goals for your company.

Whether you’re looking for a local or remote management console to manage the process of converting physical to virtual, the Converter got what it takes. With the centralized management console you’ll be able to choose your destination server for all of your conversions. Large companies are taking full advantage of VMWare Converter to not only run a copy of their important systems, but to manage them around the country as well.

If you need to install VMWare converter there is a wizard the will walk you through the process in a step by step fashion, every step of the way. You’ll be amazed at how simple it is to manage multiple conversions all from one central management console.

Simply install VMWare Converter and follow our easy step by step instructions. In the section with the VMWare Videos we offer easy to follow online tutorial to train you in doing conversions and managing the process of converting physical machines. If you’re hoping to reduce the downtime as much as you can, then this is the application for you.

Whether you’re looking for a way to convert your physical machine to a virtual machine, or vice versa as long as it’s Windows the conversion most likely will succeed.

VMWare Converter can reduce the downtime and provide migration across the board so that you’re system is always at the ready. You’ll even be able to easily watch your audit trail to ensure that everything is functioning just as it should be.

The best news is VMWare Converter is free! You can have it all at your fingertips with VMWare Converter and you won’t have to go from location to location to convert your old systems to new virtual machines. Think of all the time you can save with this simply ingenious application by using all from the comfort of your chosen location. This simple add in plug for vCenter Server in can save your company thousands of dollars.

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An Introduction to the Free VMware Player

VMWARE PLAYERThe VMware Player is a free virtualization application released by VMware. This application allows users to run virtual machines on their desktop computers. There are many reasons that you might want to run a virtual machine. Perhaps you have upgraded to Windows 8, but still want to use older applications that require Windows XP. Or, maybe you want to test out Linux or Mac OS and do not want to have to go to the hassle of maintaining a second PC or dual booting.

Virtual machines are also popular with gamers, who want to run multiple instances of the same game on their PC, but want to have different device fingerprints for each game. Another popular use of virtual machines is to run multiple servers on one computer. Virtualization allows you to make better use of powerful hardware.

The VMware Player comes in two versions; a standard free version and a plus version for commercial use. You can use the player to create a virtual hard drive and then install your operating system onto that drive. It is important to note that a virtual machine installation of an operating system still counts as a real installation, meaning that you will still need a license for the OS to use it.

VMware Player is free for home use, and is a great educational tool. It has fallen out of favour slightly now that Microsoft ships a version of Hyper-V free with Visual Studio Express, but VMware is easy to use and it does have many benefits, including the ability to give virtual machines access to graphics acceleration and other powerful hardware features of the host machine.

The Easiest Virtual Machine

VMware player is perhaps the easiest virtual machine to set up and configure. To get a working guest OS, all you need to do is click through the VM setup wizard and set the size of the drive and the amount of memory you want to allocate to the guest OS. Peripherals and networking are all handled for you. If, after installing the operating system you are unhappy with the performance of the guest VM, you can change the number of cores, the graphics acceleration and other features of the machine manually.

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VMware player can play virtual machines that were created on other computers. If you download a pre-configured VM then the software will ask you whether you created the virtual machine on the computer you are opening it on, or whether you copied it from somewhere else. If you select “I copied it” then the player software will intelligently reconfigure the machine so that it works on your computer. This system is not completely foolproof, but it does work most of the time and can save you from some laborious set-up work.

VMware produces a range of applications for home users and enterprise applications. The VMware player is a great introduction to virtualization and can help you test out new ideas and infrastructure implementations without spending a lot of money.

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What Is VMWare?

An Introduction to What Is VMWare

VMware is a company that provides virtualization and cloud related software and services. When most people think of VMware, they think of one of the virtual machine applications that the company provides. VMware offers everything from high end server virtualization, to the free VMware player that is popular with home users who want to experimwhat is vmwareent with new operating systems or run older operating systems for backwards compatibility reasons.

Who Needs VMWare

VMware provides services to individuals and businesses big and small. Whether you are looking to simply run a virtual machine on your desktop PC for testing purposes, or virtualize a lot of your infrastructure to cut down on your IT running costs, VMware can help. Virtualization helps to speed up deployment, improve redundancy, and automate a large number of maintenance tasks that were once complex and time consuming.

VMware, the company, provides several products, including options for server, desktop and application virtualization. These products can be used to improve business continuity, consolidate physical servers, move applications to the cloud, and make your IT infrastructure far more efficient.

Virtualization is not a perfect solution, and it will not work if you do not calculate your usage and requirements carefully, but, in situations where you currently have servers that are woefully under-utilized, virtualizing them makes a lot of sense, and will allow you to run several low-resource-usage servers on one machine.

A Look at VMWare Player

The most well-known, at least in the consumer world, VMware product is VMware Player. This comes in several versions. VMware Player Plus is a premium product which can be bought as a standalone application, and that is included with the VMware Fusion Professional suite. This application is suitable for commercial use, and is the commercial alternative to the free, personal use only, VMWare Player.

The VMware Player is a desktop version of VMware which lets you run virtual machines on your desktop, as if they were a standard Windows (or Mac OS, etc) application. You can create your own virtual machines using the install media for operating systems that you own, and those machines have full access to all hardware that connects to your PC, just as if they were running as the main OS.

VMware Player works with both Windows and Linux, and offers the option for users to install their own virtual machines, or copy someone else’s machine and have it work (usually effortlessly) with their own PC. The “Easy Install” feature of VMware player means that installing a virtual machine on your PC is far faster and easier than it typically would be to install the machine from scratch.

Why Use a Virtual Machine

There are several reasons that someone might want to use a virtual machine. One of the most common reasons is education. If you’re a lifelong Windows user, then installing a Linux VM makes it easy for you to find out whether Linux is for you, without the risk of installing it for real, or the hassle of dual booting. Another common reason for running a VM is software development. If you’re developing something that might cause hard crashes, doing most of your testing in a VM removes the risk of losing other work you have open, or losing a lot of time by having to reboot your PC.

One final use for a VM is evaluating unknown software. If you want to download something, or test something from outside your organization, doing so in a “live” environment is not recommended. A secure, sandboxed VM will let you test software in a fairly safe fashion. Some Trojans and viruses have the ability to detect when they’re running in a VM, so this method is not completely secure, but it is significantly safer than simply introducing unknown applications directly into your company’s IT ecosystem.

Improving Virtualization Performance

Running a VM is cheaper than running an entire physical server, but you still need fairly powerful hardware. You must remember that the host OS carries with it some performance overhead. The minimum recommended specification for running the VMware player is a 1Ghz or faster processor and 1GB of RAM. This is an incredibly optimistic specification, and most serious virtualization use cases will require vastly more powerful machines than that. If you want to consolidate multiple services, then you will need enough processing power, memory, disk space (and throughput) and network bandwidth to accommodate the host OS and each virtual machine.

Remember that virtual machines do not usually perform as well as real machines of equivalent spec, because of the extra overhead caused by virtualization. There are some things that you can do to improve the performance of your guest machines, however. With planning, your machines can run well.

Try to set your system up so that your VMs all run on separate drives. This will improve loading times and read/write times because you won’t have two VMs hitting the same drives at the same time. In addition, configure your guest OSes so that they have enough memory to run well. If your guest OSes are constantly hitting their page files, then you will see a massive performance hit. Allow each virtual machine to access as many cores as it needs, and let the host OS worry about keeping performance good. In the vast majority of cases, the CPU will not be the bottleneck for virtualization, instead it will be a lack of RAM, or poor hard drive performance.