Differences between vmware workstation and VMWare vsphere

After learning vsphere, I remembered vmware workstation. These two are virtualization. What are the essential differences between the two? Following my ideas, I began to search what I had learned, hoping to find a trace of clues. Soon the brain built two obvious labels for them.

VMware Workstation: used for labs (individuals)

VMware vsphere: used for production (enterprise)

Then I asked the teacher, and the teacher said no.

VMware Workstation is a virtualization tool for OS-based virtual OS resources. It can fully utilize idle OS resources. If the performance of your operating system is good enough, you can use vmware workstation to create DNS, DHCP, Apache, and many other servers. One machine runs multiple services, saving a lot of money. This is a common feature of virtualization.

In our daily life, we often use it to create a virtual experiment environment. Most of us regard it as a tool for playing the Operating System. This understanding is biased.

VMware vsphere Is A virtualization solution that includes many things. Its core is esxi, and esxi is independently installed on bare metal operating systems (note that it is not based on any OS, and it is itself an OS ), the hardware resources of its physical machine are virtualized as virtual resources, and then the resources of the physical machine installed with the esxi operating system can be integrated through vcenter to form a total resource pool, in this resource pool, we divide resource pools of different sizes for each department for convenient use.

Accurately speaking, these two do not belong to one concept.

VMware Workstation is an OS-based software, while VMware vsphere Is A virtualization solution designed based on the actual situation of the enterprise, technologies and considerations are more detailed than vmware workstation.

To put it simply

VMware Workstation is an OS-based virtualization software.

VMware vsphere is a specific virtualization solution.

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Differences between vmware workstation and VMWare vsphere