Today’s corporate infrastructures undergo a vibrant mix of physical, virtual and cloud deployments for their business productivity and continuity. Like other business organisations, VMware develops and updates their features as well as their tools constantly based on the requirements of their customers with the best outcomes. VMware Workstation is one among them.
VMware Workstation was the first product introduced by VMware. A Workstation is a dedicated computer system meant for a fast and reliable use of an individual. It is mainly built for business organisations to raise their productivity and minimise their cost. VMware caters huge availability of delightful virtualization techniques for the business organisations.
It creates ready to use virtual machines which can be managed using virtual machine managers. Also, multiple operating systems can be accessed by those virtual machines on a single physical machine. Instead of investing over several workstations, virtual machines with different operating systems are created easily in VMware workstation whenever required. VMware supports business administrators for the use of VMware Workstation to check the host resources for running number of virtual machines on a dedicated PC.
VMware Workstation pro and VMware workstation player are used majorly by IT administrators, developers, testers for running OS like x86 version of Windows, also Windows Server 2016, Linux VMs, including Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian and lots of other distributions as well. It would install VMware drivers and tools needed to make the VM work with the native desktop environment. It is deployed by the users for its high performance and its reliability.
What’s new in the latest update of VMware Workstation 12.5.5 version?
Apart from the prior updated features, Let us open up the below mentioned recently updated features in the VMware Workstation.
- Sharp Display Resolution and robust 3D Graphics
For an incredible graphics user experience with advanced graphics applications, VMware Workstation pro has revised to support for DirectX 10* and OpenGL 3.3. It is reformed to support high-resolution displays such as QHD+ (3200×1800) displays and 4k UHD used in laptops and x86 tablets.
- Encrypting, Restricting and Time-limited Virtual machines
To secure virtual machines from eavesdroppers, encrypting and restricting virtual machines methodology was commenced to avoid unauthorised access to the critical and dominant virtual machines. If Restrictions for a VM is enabled, the VM created cannot be modified once it is set. A prompt for password input is fetched in order to avoid any hardware related modifications of the specified VM for enhancing performance and protection.
Users could configure time limit for the Virtual machines. When an encrypted virtual machine with an expiration date is enabled, the VM compares and verifies the current time with the expiration date. This expiring time for a VM is set when the VM is running too slowly or when it imposes a background load interrupts.
- Improved Compatibility and Enterprise Quality Virtual machines
Virtual machine compatibility depends on the physical hardware available. The virtual machines created can run anywhere on VMware software environment.
VMs under VMware Workstation pro has updated to 16 vCPUs, 8TB virtual disks, and 64GB memory.
- Remote connections to vSphere and vCloud Air Support
With Workstation VMs can be stored in the vCloud which is a secure public and private infrastructure clouds to compute and carry VMware VMs which make use of cloud computing management tool named vCloud Director(vCD). Updations involved drag and drop of the VMs from desktop to vSphere or vCloud. It also allows transferring existing Virtual machines from vSphere to cloud. With this feature, users can deploy a complete application environment from a PC to a server.
- Enhanced Hardware Support and IPv6 Support
VMware Workstation has the Broadwell and Haswell CPU support for the better performance. And also it supports the latest IPv6-to-IPv4 NAT (6to4 and 4to6) which reduces the complexity of the IP address issue thereby providing networking advancements to the users.
- Enriched Connectivity and Extended Video Memory
In addition to the aforementioned features upgrades, the connectivity enhancement has made the VMware workstation more flexible to work on.
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