
Users can network together sets of operating systems to complete the testing and development of code or of network or server architecture, all on a single desktop computer. VMware Workstation 15 Pro, released in September, is the latest in a series of virtualization products that allow IT professionals to run multiple, isolated operating systems on a single workstation. While much has changed over a decade later, VMware Workstation Pro is still the gold standard. IT Admins Can Run Massive Virtual Machines MORE FROM STATETECH: Discover data center consolidation best practices for your agency.


With VMware Workstation, it is easy to create virtual networks, so I even had all the networks for the cluster heartbeat mapped out.

More than 10 years ago, I built my first Microsoft Windows Server 2008 cluster with SQL Server 2005, carefully documenting each step. For as long as I have been an IT professional, VMware Workstation has been the flagship product for testing and developing infrastructure on a local system before trying deployments in production.
