CHAPTER 27

CLOUD TOOLS

27.1 VMWare

27.2 Eucalyptus

27.3 CloudSim

27.4 OpenNebula

27.5 Nimbus

27.1 VMWARE

VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software, evolved in 1998. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004 and functions as a distinct software subsidiary. VMware’s desktop software sprints on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS-X, while VMware’s enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi and are bare-metal embedded hypervisors that run exactly on server hardware without needing an added inherent functioning system.

VMware software presents an absolutely virtualized set of hardware to the visitor functioning system. It virtualizes the hardware for a video adapter, a mesh adapter and hard ...

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