Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples hardware from operating systems.
The core product families are vSphere, vSAN and NSX for on-premises virtualization.
[1] The VMware Infrastructure suite is designed to span a large range of deployment types to provide maximum flexibility and scalability.
The suite included: Users can supplement this software bundle by purchasing optional products, such as VMotion, as well as distributed services such as high availability (HA), distributed resource scheduler (DRS), or consolidated backup.
Known limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 may constrain the design of data centers:[2] As of June 2008[update] limitations in VMware Infrastructure version 3.5 included the following: No limitations were, for example,[clarification needed] volume size of 64 TB with no more than 6 SCSI controllers per virtual machine; maximum number of remote consoles to a virtual machine is 10.