Introduction to virtualization with VMware

Create a blank virtual machine in VMware Workstation, using typical settings, selecting an OS source (ISO or CD), and configuring a 60 GB disk and bridged networking.

Explore the key files of a blank virtual machine—the VMX configuration file and its virtual disk—and understand how lock files, snapshots, and teams support portability and backup.

Learn to install Windows 7 inside a VMware Workstation using either a cd/dvd drive or an iso image, power on, and install VMware Tools to adjust resolution and drivers.

Learn how VMware Tools provides guest drivers for video, audio, network, and input, enabling unity mode and automatic keyboard and mouse capture, plus easy installation and fullscreen resizing.

Explore creating, managing, and merging VMware snapshots to capture point-in-time states, compare cold versus hot snapshots, understand delta disks, and safely revert or branch for demonstrations.

Create a new virtual machine and install openSUSE from an ISO image in VMware, then configure memory, storage, and network, and use VMware Tools to capture input seamlessly.

Explore how VMware networking connects Linux and Windows VMs through bridged, host-only, and NAT networks, configure DHCP, and access a local Apache web server across virtual networks.

Explore VMware Player, a free stripped down version of Workstation that runs on Windows or Linux and lets you run virtual machines, with limited networking and no snapshots.

Enable Intel virtualization technology in your BIOS to run a Windows 7 virtual machine in VMware; learn how to access BIOS and turn on virtualization to power your VM.

Power up a Windows 7 VM by enabling BIOS virtualization, showing compatibility across AMD and Intel CPUs. Learn how VMware Player handles multiple VMs, Unity mode, and updating VMware Tools.

Discover how virtual appliances and ready-to-run virtual machines from the marketplace enable quick, safe experimentation with alternative operating systems inside an encapsulated VM.

Unity mode projects guest applications onto the host desktop, requiring the guest VM tools, and lets you run guest apps as host apps, with ctrl-shift-u to launch new apps.

Learn about the ESXi hypervisor, the base of VMware's enterprise products, and how the free ESXi hypervisor lets you build and manage an enterprise virtualization lab from a desktop.

Install ESXi inside a workstation by creating a new virtual machine from an ISO and booting the installer. Configure networking and management to enable a virtualization environment for learning.

Explore vSphere licensing and host management, switching from 60-day evaluation to a free or enterprise license, while monitoring performance and managing VMs.

Copy an ISO into the ESX data store to boot and install an OS on a new VM, using the VSE client to manage the data store.

Create a new OpenSUSE virtual machine in ESX, attach the ISO, configure data store and network, power on, and install the OS, illustrating enterprise virtualization basics.

Watch how a VM runs on ESXi, monitor its performance, and safely shut it down from the host while understanding VMware Workstation behavior and VM tools.

Discover how VMware Converter downloads from VMware site to perform physical to virtual and virtual to virtual conversions, migrating machines from ESX, VMware Workstation, or other hypervisors to VMware environments.

Convert a physical computer to a virtual machine using VMware converter in workstation, handle Windows XP activation, install VMware Tools, and prepare for esx ii deployment.

Convert a virtual machine from VMware Workstation to ESXi using VMware Converter 5.5, manage source, inventory, and storage constraints, and verify the new VM via remote console.

Convert and run the virtual machine on esxi after freeing disk space, then verify vmware tools compatibility in the client.

Explore virtualization concepts with VMware and learn how to solicit and integrate user suggestions to optimize virtualization setups.