VMware

/viː ɛm wɛər/ · Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A Broadcom-owned (formerly independent) company and product suite that pioneered x86 virtualization. Its core products — ESXi (bare-metal hypervisor), vCenter (management plane), and vSphere (the integrated platform) — remain the backbone of many enterprise data centers, though cloud-native workloads have eroded its dominance.

    In plain English: A major virtualization company whose software lets businesses run many virtual computers on their physical servers, widely used in corporate data centers.

    Example: "Half our fleet is still on VMware ESXi because migrating 200 legacy Windows VMs to the cloud isn't anyone's idea of a good time."

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