What is VMware?

VMware  is a software virtualization system. A virtual software system is a program that simulates a physical system (a computer, a hardware) with certain hardware characteristics. When the program is executed ( simulator ), it provides an  environment of execution similar to all effects to a physical computer (except in the  pure physical access  to the simulated hardware), with CPU (it can be more than one), BIOS, graphics card, RAM, network card, sound system, USB connection, hard disk (can be more than one), etc.

A software virtualizer allows to run (simulate) several computers (operating systems) within the same hardware simultaneously, thus allowing greater use of resources.

The virtual system performance varies depending on the characteristics of the physical system in which it is run, and the virtual resources (CPU, RAM, etc.) assigned to the virtual system.

Vmware virtualizes it, so that most of the instructions in VMware are executed directly on the physical hardware.

VMware Inc. , (VM of Virtual Machine) is a subsidiary of EMC Corporation that provides virtualization software available for compatible X86 computers. This software includes VMware Workstation, and the free VMware Server and VMware Player. VMware software can work on Windows, Linux, and on the Mac OS X platform that runs on INTEL processors, under the name of VMware Fusion. The corporate name of the company is a play on words using the traditional interpretation of the acronym "VM" in computing environments, such as virtual machines (Virtual Machines).

VMware ESXi  is a virtualization platform at the data center level produced by VMware, Inc .. It is the component of your VMware Infrastructure product  which is at the lower level of the virtualization layer, the hypervisor, although it has autonomous and independent management tools and services.

It is composed of an autonomous operating system that provides the management, administration and execution environment to hypervisor software, and the services and servers that allow interaction with management and administration software and virtual machines.

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