VMware Workstation: Everything You Need to Know

VMware Workstation helps organizations deploy many applications and operating system workloads on a single server. Thus, it helps in better resource management. The workstation is an efficient and advisable solution for local desktop virtualization as it lets you securely run an additional operating system as a VM on a single computer.

Consider an example where you want to run 2 apps on your server in total isolation. This process would require 2 guest operating systems, which are controlled by a hypervisor.

Some of the most common benefits of the hypervisor are:

Note: However, different hypervisors like to use different file types.

VMware provides the facility to run on multiple workstations. It encourages an individual to create, test, and run software on the same system with minimum configuration requirements.

In the demo, we will look at the following:

Link to download VMware player: https://www.vmware.com/products/player/playerpro-evaluation.html

Step 1 − Go to the website and select "Download Now"

Step 2 − Once you download the file → double click on "Next"

Step 3 − Then, a window will pop up for setup; read the following instructions → Click "Next"

Step 4 − To proceed further, tick the box "I accept the terms in the license agreement" → Click on "Next"

Step 5 − Again, select the "Next" button

Step 6 − Click on "Finish"

Congratulations, you have successfully installed the player.

To create a VM, follow the steps given below.

Step 1 − First, click on "Player" → File → New Virtual Machine

Step 2 − A table will pop up requesting you to find a "Boot disk," "Boot Image," or to install OS at a later stage.

In this case, you should select the second option and proceed by selecting the "Browse" option. Later, you should choose the ISO image that you want to install. Once the process is complete, click on "Next".

Step 3 − In this case, proceed with the Windows Server 2012 installation. Suppose you want to activate the noncommercial version of windows, click on "Next"

Step 4 − Now, enter the required size for your virtual hard disk within the "Maximum size disk" dialog box. Then click on "Next"

Step 5 − Select the "Finish" option

Step 1 - To set up the networking modes of a virtual machine in a VMware, click on the "Edit virtual machine settings".

Step 2 - Once you select edit, it will display a window on the left-hand-side panel. In that, select the "Network Adaptor" option.

Step 3 - After this, if you want to scale down the bandwidth usage of a virtual machine, click on the "Advanced" option and set the incoming and outgoing bandwidths accordingly.

To create duplicates of VM machines, you should use VMware Commercial Version.

Start with the process by following the instructions below.

Step 1 − First, open the VMware managing console and right-click on a VM you want to duplicate. Click on "Manage -> Clone," it will direct you to a new window

Step 2 − Now, click on “Next -> create full clone -> Next”

Step 3 − Enter a name for the clone and select "Finish"

Note: Once the cloning process is complete, it creates a duplicate VM.

With that, you have concluded the VMware Workstation tutorial. Here, you learned the need for VMware, and what VMware and Virtualization are. You also looked into what hypervisor is, the benefits of hypervisor, and finally saw how components of virtualization work.

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