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The killer feature arrived in 2006: (VI3). It bundled ESX 3, VirtualCenter, VMotion, High Availability (HA), and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). A single admin could now manage a thousand servers as one giant pool of resources. Wall Street took notice. Server consolidation projects paid for themselves in 6–9 months.

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Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2. The killer feature arrived in 2006: (VI3)

Each physical server—whether running Windows NT, Linux, or Novell NetWare—sat idling at 5% to 15% capacity. To run ten different applications, you needed ten different machines, each consuming power, cooling, and floor space. The industry’s solution was simply “buy more hardware.” Rosenblum and his colleagues, including Scott Devine, Edward Wang, and Edouard Bugnion, asked a different question: What if one physical machine could run many operating systems at once, safely and efficiently? Wall Street took notice

, but among the bits and bytes of the virtual machines, it was known simply as "The Lens."

August 2007 – VMware’s IPO (NYSE: VMW) saw shares nearly double on the first day, valuing the company at ~$19 billion. The virtualization revolution had gone mainstream.

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