Vmare Workstation - No Experience Necessary [Paperback]

Get started from scratch with Vmware Workstation using this essential guide. Taking you from installation on Windows or Linux through to advanced virtual machine features, you'll be setting up a test environment in no time.

Overview

• Create virtual machines on Linux and Windows hosts
• Create advanced test labs that help in getting back to any Virtual Machine state in an easy way
• Share virtual machines with others, no matter which virtualization solution theyre using

In Detail

VMware Workstation runs on Linux as well as Windows hosts and handles different virtual machine formats, which allows you to share your work with users of other virtualization platforms, including VirtualBox, VMware Player, and VMware vSphere environments.

VMware Workstation: No Experience Necessary helps you in getting started with VMware Workstation. Youll learn how to install VMware Workstation in any circumstance, and how to create virtual machines and keep different configurations for each virtual machine, which helps in setting up extensive test environments. Youll also learn how to share these virtual machines with users of other virtualization products as well as the cloud.

In VMware Workstation: No Experience Necessary youll start learning about different virtualization solutions. In this introduction youll learn how VMware Workstation differs from other workstation virtualization platforms such as Oracle Virtual Box, and from data centre virtualization solutions such as VMware vSphere. Next, youll learn how to install VMware Workstation on either a Windows or a Linux host and how to create virtual machines on these host platforms.

After installing virtual machines, youll learn about advanced virtual machine features, including advanced networking and storage setups, which allow you to mirror a data centre setup as closely as possible. An important part of the setup of such an environmls*