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Design your Virtual Datacenter for Maximum Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness

VMware virtualization technology can revolutionize how you purchase and utilize computing, making it possible to aggregate your IT hardware into a flexible pool of resources—including CPU, memory, storage and networking—that can provide computing resources on demand.

Discover how adopting VMware technology can help you implement just-in-time capacity management to dramatically improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your IT infrastructure with our interactive diagram.

Operate a dynamic IT infrastructure with strict isolation between workloads and separate administrative access privileges on our robust, secure virtualization platform. Learn about virtualization security at the VMware Technology Resource Center and stay up to date on the latest VMware virtual security news and information at the VMware Security Center.


Learn why many OEMs use VMware VMmark, the industry’s de facto virtualization benchmark, to reliably measure the performance and scalability of a virtualization platform using representative enterprise application workloads. Read best practices, virtual machine scaling characterizations, benchmarks and troubleshooting tips.


Create powerful virtual networks within VMware ESX hosts using data center physical networking features, standards and principles to complement and extend existing data center networks to the virtual machine level of granularity and control.


Access shared storage through the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) and connect virtual machines to a heterogeneous mix of direct-attach and shared storage devices through Fibre Channel and iSCSI connections. Migrate virtual machine disk files across storage locations while maintaining continuous availability with VMware Storage VMotion.


Ensure the high availability of your IT services and business-critical applications during planned and unplanned downtime. Enable planned downtime through workload migration technologies in VMware VMotion, VMware Storage VMotion, and VMware DRS. Improve your disaster recovery process during unplanned downtime by extending automated failover, backup and recovery with VMware HA, VMware Consolidated Backup, and VMware Site Recovery Manager.