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Remote workers, business partners and third-party service providers all need access to corporate data and network resources, yet IT must also adhere to an ever-growing list of security and corporate governance regulations that are often at odds with user needs. As a result, many organizations are seeking ways to increase flexibility for their end-users without compromising security and control over endpoint PCs and other critical IT assets.
Harness the Power of Desktop Virtualization
VMware ACE 2 is a comprehensive enterprise solution that organizations use to provision standardized client PC environments inside secure, centrally managed virtual machines called ACEs. Each ACE contains a complete client PC—including the operating system and all applications. Desktop administrators use the dynamic policy configuration capabilities in ACE to lock down endpoints with device and network access control, there by protecting confidential company data and ensuring compliance with IT polices.
Use Workstation 6 with the ACE Option Pack to create, package and deploy ACEs to local and remote endpoints such as laptop and desktop PCs, or even portable USB devices such as thumb drives and portable hard drives.
Once deployed, use the ACE 2 Management Server to monitor ACEs and enforce corporate policies from a central location. The ACE 2 Management Server enables administrators to deliver dynamic policy updates to local and remote ACE instances, as well as to control the activation and de-activation of each package for contractors, consultants and other temporary users.
Key Features
Integration with VMware Workstation 6: VMware ACE 2 offers seamless integration with VMware Workstation 6, giving customers access to both products through a single user interface. As a result, administrators can now use Workstation 6 to configure and deploy ACE packages across the extended enterprise.
ACE 2 Management Server: Use the new ACE 2 Management Server to manage and control ACE clients from a central location. The ACE 2 Management Server has the ability to dynamically update control and security policies, including the ability to activate / deactivate ACE clients.
Pocket ACE: Administrators can now bundle and deploy ACE packages directly on a portable USB media device such as a flash memory stick, portable hard drive or even an Apple iPod. End users can operate their ACE client machines directly from the USB device for unparalleled mobility and flexibility.
Enhanced security capabilities: ACE 2 offers enhancements to policy and package settings that make it easier to secure and manage ACE clients. Flexible, granular controls for device and network access enable administrators to specify exactly which machines or subnets an ACE client may access. What’s more, ACE 2 uses a FIPS-validated 128-bit AES algorithm to prevent unauthorized access to data stored on ACE clients.
Centralized Control
Take command of client PCs across the extended enterprise from a single point of control.
Centralized policy-based management. Virtual Rights Management (VRM) centralizes management of security policies and access rights applied to VMware ACE running on an end-user PC.
Secured access. Secure the entire VMware ACE environment, including data and system configuration, with authentication and virtual disk encryption.
Device control. Lock down PCs by granting or denying access to host PC devices such as printers, USB memory keys, or DVD/CD writers based on device type or ID.
Expiration control. Configure VMware ACE to expire at a pre-determined time, or after a pre-set period.
Strong Security
Protect sensitive and proprietary information with robust security features such as full-volume encryption and granular access control over all network and peripheral ports.
Rules-based network access. Enable endpoint compliance by identifying and quarantining expired, unauthorized or out-of-date VMware ACE environments by port or traffic type.
Flexible endpoint lockdown. Tighten desktop security policies with granular device and network access control while providing end users the freedom to be productive.
Secure access. Offer secure, managed access to your standard corporate desktop image from any PC, managed (company-owned PCs) or unmanaged (employee-owned PCs, 3rd party PCs including vendors and contractors).
Virtual Machine Encryption. FIPS 140-2 compliant 128-bit AES Encryption of ACE virtual machines, including virtual disk and configuration files.
Flexible Deployment
Deploy ACE instances on portable media devices so that end users to take their computing environments with them wherever they go.
Provision desktops on portable media. Quickly and securely provide corporate standard desktop access to 3rd parties such as customers, contractors and vendors without the need for expensive additional systems.
Free the desktop from hardware dependencies. Give mobile employees the freedom to work from wherever they need to.
Recover with ease. ACE client packages are easy to back up and easy to restore, enabling your organization to include client PCs in your disaster recovery and business continuity solution.
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Streamlined Management
Create and deploy virtual machines for simpler managed desktop environment.
Design once, deploy anywhere. Create standardized hardware-independent PC environments with virtual machines and deploy them to any PC or portable flash media device for an easy to manage, yet complete desktop experience.
Leverage a single virtual client platform. Support for a single VMware platform empowers VMware Workstation 6 with ACE Option Pack users to create and securely package VMware ACE virtual machines for deployment to end users.
Rapid Reconfiguration
Take snapshots of stable system states so that you can move between known desktop image states on endpoint PCs.
Snapshots. Eliminate the time required to reconfigure systems by leveraging pre-captured snapshots of “known good” desktop states. Rapidly configure demo and training environments with custom snapshots in seconds.
Quick recovery. Save help desk and support costs by helping users recover quickly on their own. With a snapshot that is taken after the VMware ACE virtual machine is installed on the client, end users can revert to a previous state within seconds.
VMware ACE Screens
Workstation 6 with ACE Option Pack: Summary View
ACE Policy Management: Specify removable devices.
Network Access: Create secure zones for Host and Guest Network Access.
ACE Policy Management: Lock down USB devices by class.
Pocket ACE: Deploy ACE virtual machine to flash media devices.
ACE 2 Management Server: Inventory of ACE 2 instances.
PALO ALTO, Calif., 5/29/08 — VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, today announced the general availability of VMware Workstation 6.0.4, the sixth generation of its desktop virtualization software product.
VMware Workstation 6.0.4 delivers groundbreaking advances in virtualization technology while offering numerous new features such as Windows Vista support, as well as industry-first support for multiple display monitors and USB 2.0 devices, making it highly appealing to IT administrators, developers, testers and other technical professionals and enthusiasts.
Introduced more than eight years ago, VMware Workstation enables pre-production testing of desktops and servers in virtual machines, rehosting of legacy applications, rapid provisioning and resetting of multi-tier environments and accelerated software development and testing. With an advanced feature set and broad support for x86 operating systems, VMware Workstation continues to be the “gold standard” virtualization product for desktop and laptop computers.
VMware Workstation continues to be the most advanced desktop virtualiza-tion product for industry-standard PCs. Only VMware Workstation offers broad operating system support for Windows, Linux, NetWare, Solaris x86 and FreeBSD. The product also features a sophisticated architecture that includes full 64-bit support, industry-first support for up to 10 network interface cards and experimental support for two-way Virtual SMP.
New features in VMware Workstation include:
Windows Vista support: Users can deploy Windows Vista as a guest or host operating system, facilitating re-hosting of legacy systems, enabling upgrade and migration projects with minimal end-user disruption and simplifying Windows Vista evaluations.
Multiple monitor display: Users can configure one virtual machine to span multiple monitors or multiple virtual machines to each display on separate monitors with this industry-first capability, enhancing desktop productivity.
USB 2.0 support: Users can take advantage of high-performance peripherals such as Apple iPods and fast storage devices.
ACE authoring capabilities: As a companion to VMware Workstation 6, VMware now offers a VMware ACE Option Pack, which enables VMware Workstation 6 users to create secure, centrally manageable virtual machines. Mobility is one of the primary benefits of this Option Pack, as it allows users to securely transport virtual machines on portable media devices such as USB memory sticks.
Integrated Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) functionality: Users can create a virtual machine in minutes by “cloning” an existing physical computer.
Integrated virtual debugger: Users can deploy, run and debug programs inside a virtual machine directly from their preferred integrated development environments (IDE's), accelerating debugging with this industry-first integra-tion with Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio.
Background virtual machine execution: Users can run virtual machines in the background without the VMware Workstation user interface for an unclutte-red user experience.
Automation APIs: Users can write scripts and programs that automate and help quicken virtual machine testing with support for VIX API 2.0.
In addition, VMware Workstation 6 advances the state of the art in virtualization technology with groundbreaking new capabilities including:
Continuous virtual machine record and replay (experimental): Users can record the execution of a virtual machine, including all inputs, outputs and decisions made along the way. On demand, the user can go “back in time” to the start of the recording and replay execution, guaranteeing that the virtual machine will perform exactly the same operations every time and ensuring bugs can be reproduced and resolved.
Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) support (experimental): VMware Workstation 6 is the first virtualization platform to allow execution of para-virtualized guest operating systems that implement the VMI interface.
VMware Workstation 6.0.4 Release Notes.
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New in Version 6.0.4:
Workstation 6.0.4 adds full support for the following operating systems:
- 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista SP1 as host and guest operating systems. Editions include Windows Vista Enterprise, Business, Home Basic, Home Premium, and Ultimate.
Note: The Integrated Virtual Debuggers support most of these Windows Vista SP1 operating systems:
- Eclipse Integrated Virtual Debugger can be hosted on all 32-bit versions of these Windows Vista editions. It supports 32-bit and 64-bit Enterprise, 32-bit Ultimate, and 32-bit Business editions as a guest.
- Visual Studio Integrated Virtual Debugger can be hosted on all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of these Windows Vista editions. It supports 32-bit and 64-bit Enterprise, 32-bit Ultimate, and 32-bit Business editions as a guest.
Workstation 6.0.4 addresses the following security issues:
- On Windows hosts, if VMCI is enabled, a guest can execute arbitrary code in the context of the vmx process on the host. This is a compiler-dependent vulnerability.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the CVE number CVE-2008-2099 to this issue. (bug 23420 .
- A security vulnerability related to the host-guest file system (HGFS) could cause a buffer overflow. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) assigned the CVE number CVE-2008-2098 to this issue. (bug 234214).
Workstation 6.0.4 is also a maintenance bug fix release to improve VMware Workstation 6.0.3. See Fixed Bugs for information about additional bug fixes.
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