

The first product, VMware Workstation, was delivered in May 1999, and the company entered the server market in 2001 with VMware GSX Server (hosted) and VMware ESX Server (hostless). The company was launched officially early in the second year, in February 1999, at the DEMO Conference organized by Chris Shipley. For the first year, VMware operated in stealth mode, with roughly 20 employees by the end of 1998.

Edouard Bugnion remained the chief architect and CTO of VMware until 2005, and went on to found Nuova Systems (now part of Cisco). Greene and Rosenblum were both graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion.

The “vInfo” tab displays for each virtual machine the virtual machine name, powerstate, template, SRM Placeholder, config status, DNS name, connection state, guest state, heartbeat, consolidation needed, power on date / time, suspend date / time, creation date / time, change version, number of cpu’s, latency-sensitivity, amount of memory, number of nics, number of virtual disks, total disk capacity, min Required EVC Mode Key, disk.EnableUUID, CBT, primary IP address, connected networks, number of monitors, video Ram KiB, resource pool, folder ID, folder name, vApp name, DAS protection, fault tolerance state, fault tolerance role, fault tolerance latency status, fault tolerance band width, fault tolerance secondary latency, provisioned storage, used storage, unshared storage, HA restart priority, HA isolation response, HA VM Monitoring, Cluster rule(s), Cluster rule name(s), install Boot Required, Boot delay, Boot retry delay, Boot retry enabled, Boot BIOS setup, Reboot Poweroff, EFI Secure boot, Firmware, HW version, HW upgrade status, HW upgrade policy, HW target, configuration path, log directory, snapshot directory, suspend directory, annotation, custom fields, datacenter name, cluster name, ESX host name, operating system name according to the config file, operating system name acoording to the VMware tools, virtual machine ID, VM SMBIOS UUID, VM UUID, VI SDK server type, VI SDK API version, virtual machine tags, VI SDK Server and VI SDK UUID.Original logo from 1998 to 2009.
