Basic use of VMware workstation

1. Overview of the VMware Workstation virtualization platform
2. VMware Workstation network resources
3. VMware Workstation provides storage resources
4. VMware Workstation provides compute resources
5. VMware Workstation provides additional extranet equipment

1. Overview of the VMware Workstation virtualization platform

VMware Workstation provides a fully virtualized platform.
In a host using the Windows operating system, if you want to install a virtual machine using VMware Workstation virtualization software, you need to turn on the inter or AMD Processor virtualization feature in the host BIOS.
And, if you want to use Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization technology, you won't be able to use VMware Workstation software on the same platform.
With VMware Workstation virtualization software, you can install WINDOWS,LINUX,UNIX,MAC and other operating systems for clients, or you can install Hypervisio platforms such as Esxi,xen

Note: Some plug-in support for VMware Workstation may be required when installing the Mac operating system

2. VMware Workstation network resources

VMware Workstation offers three types of virtual switches:

• Bridging Network mode: Bridge
• Network Address Translation mode: NAT
• Host mode only: Host-only

The differences between the three types of virtual switching networks are:
Virtual machines that use bridged network mode, all network information for their NICs, are assigned from the router on the LAN where the host hosts reside. That is, the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, DNS and other configuration, all from the router's allocation. At this point the status of virtual machine and host is equal, in a network segment. Able to communicate with each other.
A virtual machine that uses a network address to forward all network information for its NIC from the VMware Workstation daemon. This time the host passes the virtual network card and the virtual machine's
With host-only virtual machines, the network on which the NIC is located belongs to a separate network and is not capable of communicating with other networks.

In VMware workstation, the three types of virtual switches are edited through the menu bar's edit and virtual network editor

3. VMware Workstation provides storage resources

VMware Workstation provides fully-featured virtualized storage capabilities, including storage interfaces and storage devices

4. VMware Workstation provides compute resources 5. VMware Workstation provides additional extranet equipment

Basic use of VMware workstation