To provide easy virtualization applications for SMBs, Vmware has announced new features of VMware Go, a Web-based service. With this service, SMBs can create virtual machines on VMware Server and move to the more scalable VMware ESXi platform without losing the investment they have made in creating and fine tuning virtual machines.
Another new feature of VMware Go is Collective Intelligence, which helps guide a customer's virtualization experience by aggregating user data to show virtualization best practices. With Collective Intelligence, users can view what other users have done in each stage of the virtualization process so they can be more confident they are making the right virtualization decisions. Additionally, users can view reports and dashboards with such information as the average number of virtual machines users are creating per VMware ESXi host, the top five hardware types on which the community is running VMware ESXi, or the top five virtual appliances that have been downloaded from VMware Go.
Manoj Yadevan, director of emerging business and products, Vmware said, "Along with the ability to seamlessly migrate virtual machines from VMware Server to VMware ESXi, the new Collective Intelligence guide for VMware Go makes it easier than ever to quickly realize the full benefits of VMware ESXi and enable SMBs to maximize limited IT resources in just hours or days."
