VMware’s Free Virtual Appliance Authoring Tool With Robust Management Features
VMware Studio provides mechanisms for authoring, on-site management, distributing and deployment of production-ready virtual appliances. ISVs, hardware appliance vendors, and developers use VMware Studio to configure and package their solutions in a standards-based Open Virtualization Format (OVF). VMware Studio also enables software providers and developers to leverage the industry’s leading virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure, and offers built appliances all the great management services that VMware Infrastructure delivers.
Read the virtual appliances data sheet for more information or download a free copy of VMware Studio and try it for yourself.
Author VMware Ready Virtual Appliances using VMware Studio
VMware Studio helps author appliances that can then be validated through VMware Ready Program. These Appliances run seamlessly on VMware products such as VMware Infrastructure, VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion and VMware Server, as well as on third-party virtualization products that support the OVF specification. In addition, virtual appliances built with VMware Studio carry an in-guest management framework that provides management capabilities for end users to perform administrative tasks such as configuring, updating and managing virtual appliances.
VMware Studio Key Features
- Provides a web console, Command Line Interface and templates to easily create and manage virtual appliances.
- Allows appliance customization and provides capabilities to ensure a smooth vendor directed end-user experience.
- Enables the creation of patch repositories that can be hosted at the vendor site and used to push out updates to the appliances deployed at the end-user site to reduce admin time and costs.
- Leverages the best-in-class virtualization platform, namely, VMware Infrastructure, to allow appliances to be directly imported, deployed and updated using the VMware Infrastructure client.
Download VMware Studio Today
Experience the benefits of virtual appliances today when you download VMware Studio for free. For detailed product specifications and system requirements, please refer to the VMware Studio User's Guide and Admin Guide.
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