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VMware Infrastructure 3 review

		Product	Date	Editors' Rating	Members' Rating	Price
		XenServer 5 Early releases of the Xen hypervisor showed promise but had lots of rough edges. Citrix's XenServer 5, however, is very much a production-class virtualisation solution with features that match, and in some cases exceed, what's available on rival platforms.	18 Nov 2008	8.0		£660
		VMware ESXi ESXi is the easiest hypervisor to install and use. It's based on VMware's ESX Server code, making it among the most stable and mature virtualisation options available. It also uses very little RAM and disk space, leaving more server resources free for your virtual machines.	17 Oct 2008	8.0
		Hyper-V Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.	18 Aug 2008	7.0		£881
		vCharter Pro This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data.	03 Jul 2008	7.2		£279
		Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure This is an excellent tool for replicating virtual machines (VMs) running on VMware ESX Server 3.x and VirtualCenter 2.x. Although the suite is relatively new, impressive usability features hint at Double-Take’s long history in replication.	28 Aug 2007	7.5		£1720
		Vizioncore esxEssentials Vizioncore esxEssentials is a software bundle for companies using VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure 3 server virtualisation tools. It comes with excellent backup/restore, resource utilisation and VM replication tools.	21 Aug 2007	7.5		£509
		VirtualCenter for VMware Server VMware VirtualCenter provides some top-notch management tools for companies running VMware Server, VMware’s free server virtualisation suite.	29 Jun 2007	8.0		£700
		VMware Workstation 6 Already hugely popular with developers and system testers, this latest version of VMWare Workstation has even more to appeal to the professional market.	20 Jun 2007	8.7		£95
		esxMigrator Easy to use and efficient with time, esxMigrator is an excellent tool that will help busy server administrators upgrading from VMware’s ESX 2.x to VI3 server virtualisation.	07 Nov 2006	8.0		£568
		Product	Date	Editors' Rating	Members' Rating	Price Range

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