With this short article, we would like to conclude a series of publications devoted to the history of virtualization in the Enterprise segment of the market. Today we'll talk about VMware, a company that today is the de facto legislator in the world of virtualization. Let's take a look at what some of the earliest VMware products looked like: GSX and ESX.
VMware was founded in 1998. Its first commercially successful product is considered to be VMware Workstation, released in 1999 and designed to run on client hardware.
For server workloads, VMware GSX Server was developed from the ground up over the next 2 years. Its name is an abbreviation for the longer "working" name Ground Storm X. The first commercial version 1.0 dates back to 2001. It was installed on top of Windows Server or SUSE Linux, which characterizes it as a type 2 hypervisor.
An improved version of GSX Server 2.0 was released a year later, in the summer of 2002. Under its original name, the product existed until December 2005, when the last commercial version 3.2.1 was released.
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