As its name implies, the use of VMware – or ‘Virtual Machine’ ware – creates a virtual machine on your computer. This can help businesses better manage their resources and make them more efficient. Indeed, the use of ‘virtualisation’ on a business server has many advantages, including reduced IT costs. Virtualisation also enables businesses to get the most out of their investment in hardware and resources by using various constraints, scheduling and partitioning to increase the flexibility of the computing environment.

VMware allows businesses to run multiple application and operating system workloads on the one server – thus enabling better resource management. By creating a virtual machine that behaves exactly like an actual computer – VMware also allows everything running on that virtual machine to run in its own window. This means IT service providers can install an operating system and the software of their choice on as many ‘virtual machines’ as they like – with each one stored as a file on the hard drive.

One of the biggest advantages of running VMware is you can install and test software without it affecting your actual computer.