October 28, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — VMware (vmware.com), a developer of virtual infrastructure software, announced on Thursday that it has introduced 4-way VMware Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing. The company said that with up to four physical processors available to each virtual machine, VMware customers will be able to extend the benefits of virtual infrastructure to demanding enterprise workloads, opening the door to full virtualized data centers.
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4-Way VMware virtual SMP allows a single virtual machine to span four processors, making virtual machines ideal for all applications, even resource-intensive applications such as large enterprise databases and Microsoft Exchange.
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“Our customers enthusiastically adopted our 2-Way Virtual SMP feature to run applications requiring multiple processors in VMware ESX Server virtual machines,” says Ed Bugnion, CTO of VMware. “As multi-core processors become standard, scalable Virtual SMP will become an essential part of our customers’ virtualization strategy. We’re responding by offering 4-Way Virtual SMP so that our customers can meet their goals of standardizing on virtual infrastructure in 2005.”
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4-Way VMware Virtual SMP is currently in testing. The new product will be available in the second half of 2005 and will be an add-on product to VMware ESX Server.
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