Virtualization for Education

Save Money and Improve Service with a Virtual Infrastructure

Provision new desktops more rapidly, consolidate servers for immediate cost savings, and provide better service with improved security. Spend the money you save on research and teaching.  Manage all your computing resources effectively and support your institution’s needs with a virtual datacenter:

• Provision new labs quickly
• Keep your services running non-stop
• Achieve better data protection, high availability and disaster recovery
• Reduce hardware expenses, energy consumption, and number of system administrators
• Test and develop new application quickly and affordably

Resources

Join Us at Events

To view upcoming industry events; attend a VMware seminar near you; register for one of our free live webcasts; or join a VMware User Group (VMUG), visit the VMware Events area of our web site.

Access Technical Resources

To read the latest white papers, visit the Virtualization White Papers area of our web site.  We also have a complete set of Technical Papers that may be searched by product, solution space, date, rating, title, and publisher.

Listen to Podcasts

Visit our library of VMware Podcasts to download informative MP3 files covering topics like “Basics of Virtualization”, “Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter”, “Creating a Green Datacenter”, and much more.

Read Compatibility Guides

VMware Compatibility Guides list System, I/O, Storage/SAN and Backup compatibility with VMware Infrastructure and previous versions of VMware ESX Server. VMware also offers a thin client certified compatibility guide for VMware View (formerly Virtual Desktop Infrastructure).  You can also view the list of Community-Supported Hardware and Software.  Finally, the Guest Operating System Installation Guide lists supported guest operating systems, provides installation instructions, and documents known issues for each guest.

Download Documentation

To view release notes, manuals, guides, libraries, and other documentation resources available for all versions of our products, visit the VMware Documentation web pages.

Search the Knowledge Base

If you’re searching for specific technical information or discussion forum topics regarding VMware products or virtualization technology, we offer a complete and searchable Knowledge Base.