


The package also enables some integration between the guest and host systems, including shared folders, plug-and-play devices, clock synchronisation, and cutting-and-pasting across environments. The VMware Tools package adds drivers and utilities to improve the graphical performance, including mouse tracking, for different guest operating systems.

VMware vSphere 4 was originally named VMware Virtual Infrastructure (VI) 4 and is capable of managing large pools of infrastructure, including software and hardware both from internal and external networks. VMware Infrastructure is a collection of VMware products used to manage a VMware ESX/ESXi server environment. This software enables applications to execute without being previously installed. VMware ThinApp, formerly Thinstall, is a virtualization suite capable of creating portable software ("portable apps"). VMware ACE provides a means of distributing secured virtual desktops to networked client PCs. VMware Capacity Planner, an information technology (IT) capacity planning tool, collects utilization-data in heterogeneous computing environments and compares it to industry-standard reference-data to provide analysis and decision-support modeling.

P2V Assistant allowed users to convert physical machines into virtual machines and Importer allowed the import of virtual machines from other products into VMware Workstation. VMware vCenter Converter replaces the older VMware products "P2V Assistant" and "Importer". Conversions can be managed from a centralized console allowing for multiple conversions at the same time (using the Enterprise version). A P2V conversion can be done from any physical machine running Microsoft Windows (XP or later) or Linux based (Linux only works on Standalone version).
