VMware Server 1.0 VMware released version 1.0 of Server on July 12, 2006, replacing the discontinued VMware GSX Server product-line. VMware Inc continued to develop the VMware Server 1.0.x series, issuing a maintenance release (version 1.0.10) on 26 October 2009.
VMware Server 2.0 VMware Server 2 runs on several server-class host operating systems, including different versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, and 2008, and mainly enterprise-class Linuxes. The manual explicitly states: "you must use a Windows
server operating system". The product also runs on Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. Server 2 uses a web-based user-interface, the "VMware Infrastructure Web Access", instead of a GUI. For web interfaces, VMware Server 2 and VMware vCenter 4 use the
Tomcat 6 web server, while VMware vCenter 2.5 is based on Tomcat 2.5. As part of the product, the VMware Host Agent service (also carried over to VMware Workstation Server until today) allows
remote access to VMware Server functionality. VMware server 2 supports the Microsoft
Shadow Copy service. (
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 also supports Shadow Copy.) Virtual machines that support this service can be
backed up without stopping. VMware Server was discontinued in January 2010; general support ended on June 30, 2011. == See also ==