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Manufacturer: VMware
Mfg Part#: WS8-ENG-LW-AP
Buy.com Sku: 224444236
UPC: 814223009777
UPC 14: 00814223009777
Buy.com Sales Rank: 23
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| VMware Workstation 8 is your on-ramp to the cloud. Run a full web or cloud environment on your PC. Remotely connect to VMware vSphere. Run as a Server. Upload to the internal cloud. Do it all from one place. VMware Workstation 8. Why Choose VMware Workstation? Winner of more than 50 industry awards, VMware Workstation is recognized for its broad operating system support, rich user experience, comprehensive feature set, and high performance. It's the perfect companion for any technical professional that wants to save significant time with a tool that is backed by world-class support. |
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Put the Cloud in Your PC |
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Run a full web or cloud environment on your PC, including VMware Micro Cloud Foundry. Run as a server to share virtual machines with your team, department, or anyone in your organization. Remotely connect to virtual machines running on VMware vSphere. Simply drag and drop to move virtual machines to a VMware vSphere server. Run, share, connect, or move virtual machines, it’s a whole new way to work. |
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Take Your Productivity to the Next Level |
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Run applications in Linux, Windows, and more at the same time on the same PC with no rebooting. Evaluate and test new operating systems, applications and patches in an isolated environment. Demonstrate complex software applications on a single laptop in a repeatable, reliable manner. Rich integration with Visual Studio, Eclipse, and the SpringSource Tool Suite make it incredibly easy to test applications on multiple platforms. |
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Run Your Most Demanding Applications |
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Create virtual machines with up to 8 virtual processors or 8 virtual cores, 2 TB virtual disks and up to 64 GB of memory per virtual machine to run the most demanding applications. Protect your virtual machines from prying eyes with 256-bit AES encryption and smart card authentication. |
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Best 3D Graphics Just Got Better |
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VMware Workstation was the first to support 3D graphics in virtualized environments and was the first to support Windows Aero in Windows Vista and Windows 7 virtual machines. Run even more 3D applications with support for DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3 and OpenGL 2.13D graphics in Windows virtual machines. |
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Award-Winning |
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Backed by over a decade of proven engineering, VMware Workstation is trusted by users worldwide. VMware Workstation is the winner of over 50 awards including the 2010 Redmond Magazine Readers Choice Award and the 2011 Dr. Dobb’s 2011 Jolt Product Excellence Award, and has been inducted into the Jolt Hall of Fame. |
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Run Multi-tiered Applications on a Single PC |
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Manage multiple, network-connected virtual machines with Folders. Folders make it easy to start and run complex multi-tier enterprise applications on a single PC with just a click of the mouse. |
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Snapshots and Clones: The Ultimate Time Saver |
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Snapshots preserve the state of a virtual machine so you can return to it at any time. Snapshots are useful when you need to revert your virtual machine to a prior, stable system state. Workstation makes it easy to find and revert to a previously saved snapshot. |
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Installing operating systems and applications can be time consuming. With clones, you can make many copies of a virtual machine from the baseline installation and configuration. This makes it fast and simple to maintain standardized computing environments for employees and students, or to create a baseline configuration for testing. |
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Recycle Old Hardware |
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Quickly and easily convert all those Microsoft Windows and Linux-based physical PCs sitting under or around your desk into VMware Workstation virtual machines. Get all the benefits of virtualization while freeing up desk space and hardware. |
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Protect from Prying Eyes Protect your virtual machines from prying eyes with 256-bit AES encryption. |
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Printing that Just Works |
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Driver-less printing makes your PC printers automatically accessible to your Windows and Linux VMs—no configuration or drivers required. Your PC’s default printer even shows up as the default, too. |
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Go Back in Time |
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Buggy applications, hardware failures, viruses and other malware do not give you fair warning to take a manual snapshot. AutoProtect luckily automatically takes snapshots at set intervals, protecting you from unexpected bumps in the road, making it easy to go back in time to when things were good. |
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Free Up System Resources Pause a virtual machine to free up CPU resources for use by other running virtual machines or demanding applications. |
Tech Specs
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What kind of hardware do I need to run VMware Workstation? |
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VMware Workstation runs on standard x86-based hardware with Intel and AMD processors and on most Windows or Linux host operating systems VMware recommends the following: |
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System requirements: |
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64-bit x86 Processor |
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1.3GHz or faster core speed |
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2GB RAM minimum/ 4GB RAM and above recommended for large environments |
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1GB minimum available hard disk space for guest operating systems |
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Workstation installation |
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200MB of available disk space for Linux |
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1.5GB of available disk space for Windows. |
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Host operating systems* (32-bit & 64-bit): |
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Windows 7 |
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Windows Vista |
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Windows Server 2008 |
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Windows Server 2003 Standard |
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Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 |
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Ubuntu 8.04 -11.04 |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 - 6.1 |
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CentOS 5.0 - 6.0 |
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openSUSE 10.2 - 11.4 |
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SUSE Linux 10 - 11 SP1 |
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Mandriva Linux 2008 – 2011 |
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Oracle Linux 5.0 - 6.1
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For Windows 7 Aero graphics support in a virtual machine |
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3GB RAM (Host PC) |
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Intel Dual Core, 2.2GHz and above or AMD Athlon 4200+ and above |
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NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT and above or ATI Radeon HD 2600 and above |
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Host operating systems (32-bit & 64-bit): |
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Windows 7 Home Basic and above |
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Windows Vista Home Basic and above |
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Windows Server 2008 Standard and above |
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Windows Server 2003 Standard and above |
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Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 and above |
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Ubuntu 8.04 -11.04 |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 - 6.1 |
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CentOS 5.0 - 6.0 |
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openSUSE 10.2 - 11.4 |
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SUSE Linux 10 - 11 SP1 |
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Mandriva Linux 2008 – 2011 |
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Oracle Linux 5.0 - 6.1 |
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