Feature comparison: VMware Workstation 6.0 vs Server 1.0

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Feature comparison: VMware Workstation 6.0 vs Server 1.0

Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Thursday, May 10, 2007 | 6 Comments

With launch of Workstation 6.0, VMware completely revamps feature set currently deployed in all company products, from Player to ESX Server, so that introduced innovations dramatically unbalance comparison with VMware Server.

In some enterprise scenarios this comparison is not even suitable, considering key differences in this two products, but lastest Workstation releases are exposing a serious amount of server-like capabilities, so that customers may start evaluating both for smalles deployments.

To simplify decision process virtualization.info today releases a new version of its feature comparison between these two solutions.

Download VMware Workstation 6.0 vs VMware Server 1.0 here.

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6 Comments

Gianni Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:21:00 AM

Great comparison. Gives a simplified view of all the features of both products in a glance.

However I'm not sure about the following:

- VMware Server should support running in headless mode. Since the applications runs as a service, VMs can be running even if you don't login into the host and if you close the applications while running, they will still keep on running in the background.

- As far as I know, VMWare Server can be installed on Windows XP and 2000, so I guess they should not be listed as unsupported host OS.

Other than these two points, the rest of the comparison seems good.

Thanks!

Gianni.

Tomi Maila Monday, May 14, 2007 6:02:00 PM

Thanks for posting the link to this feature comparison table.

Juan Casares Monday, May 14, 2007 8:42:00 PM

There is so much confusion on this topic. It is great to see a feature comparison.

There are some missing Workstation 6 features:
- Vista hosts and guests
- USB 2.0
- A VM can span multiple monitors
- Integrated VNC server (allows remote use)
- IDE integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse

RezaRob Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:04:00 PM

It looks like a great comparison table. Thanks.

Anonymous Monday, January 12, 2009 11:18:00 AM

Could you update the comparison with VMWare Workstation 6.5(.1) and VMWare Server 2.0?

Anonymous Friday, May 29, 2009 4:24:00 PM

Great comparison!
Thanks!

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