CHAPTER 1 Introduction and System Requirements
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Key GSX Server 3 Benefits
GSX Server 3 offers the following key benefits:
• Shipping for over four years, with thousands of successful customers, VMware
GSX Server is the most flexible and easily deployed server virtualization product
on the market.
• Offers widest selection of supported host and guest operating systems of any
virtualization technology — preserves your freedom to choose the best
operating system platform.
• Integrates easily into any environment for ultimate versatility — installs like an
application and runs on any standard x86 hardware.
• Supports large server — up to 64GB of host memory, 32 host processors and 64
powered-on virtual machines — for ultimate scalability, extensibility and
robustness.
• Offers virtual machine compatibility across the entire VMware family of
virtualization products and is ready to run with VMware VirtualCenter.
• Supports advanced virtual machine clustering for high-availability applications.
• Ensures reliable server consolidation through isolated virtual partitions.
• Allows secure remote management.
• Permits full network connectivity for virtual machines.
• Automates monitoring and control of virtual machines with VmCOM and VmPerl
Scripting APIs.
• Runs virtual disk files on any system with current VMware software installed.
To discover more new features of VMware GSX Server 3, see What’s New in Version 3
on page 14.
