The only difficulty I have now is Daemon Tools, which use for ISO purpose. Beside that, I am using it as my day to day operational purpose including Microsoft Office, firefox, IE 8, Live messenger and etc. Respond wise had been significant improve as compare to Vista previously.

I am not installed my Workstation to Windows 7 64 bits Ultimate version and use in full mode for my office work. I would like to say I am happy on it. If you want to have a try on this, you will always able to install the windows 7 on both VMware Workstation and VMware Server. Have fun.

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With this new features, the system administrator may not require to access the web console just because the need the access to the VM console. Of course, the traditional way of accessing the VM console will able to done through the web console still.

Attach is the screen shots for references.

You will expect to see the similiar screen on ESX 4 if they put it on the next release

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The New display of the web console

New Remote Console which connect to the active Virtual Machine

Remote Console figure 2

Permission administration tab

New VM running on VMware Server 2.0

There are more to come on my next post to further elaborate about VMware Server 2.0

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VMware Server 2.0 is free and open source version, which is different with enterprise ESX 3i which also a free version from VMware. In term to utilize VMware server 2.0, you will require to have a Windows or Linux install on your machine or server, and install VMware Server 2.0 on top of the operating system to enable the hypervisor to be executed. This is different with ESX 3i which is not require any Operating System to be installed.

We may see this as a competitive product with VMware Workstation 6.5 which recently launched. If you ask my opinion, I will say that both are on different product range. VMware Server 2 can be consider as alternative to the business users, who may not need the advance technology & features to simplify their IT environment with minimal administration require. This product is more suitable for the Small Medium Enterprise users which may not have a Data Center for their working location. I will say that a Junior IT professional will easily able to manage the VMware Server and take the opportunity as a entry level for Enterprise Virtualization with VMware Server 2. Besides that, it does provide opportunity for every users to have virtualization in place for their business to provide better ROI in term of hardware investment and utilization.

If we look VMware Workstation, it provide more features and ability to the IT pro users to perform their test and development environment on their laptop, workstation or desktop which reduce the amount of servers require for a corporate to perform their application development. Somehow, ESX is targeting Enterprise level, 3i is provide for free which some cases we may not require VMotion and HA capability. Management wise, Workstation is simple and easy. You may not require to browse through the web console and easily can be launched as a program from your machine, but you will lost the administration features on the network. VMware Workstation has ACE integrated, drag and drop features and etc, which may not require for most of the VMware Server users for hosting purpose. VMware Server 2 will require a web browser for your management, and you able to manage it through LAN network. There is a tomcat installed while you configure you VMware server at the 1st time.

In VMware Server 2, I had seen there are a lot of new features and improvement and I am impress with the respond time of the web browser. There is absolutely no delay within the respond over the web browser which is easy to be used and managed. It contain most features we require and useable today and improvement of performance and manage ability. Again, this is a free version, as if I compare this to the free version of hypervisor from XEN, I will prefer to proceed with VMware Server 2.

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