VMware Studio offers software developers and hardware appliance vendors an easy-to-use virtual appliance authoring tool to create, customize, manage, distribute, and deploy production-ready virtual appliances. VMware Studio leverages the industry's leading virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure (VI), and offers built appliances all the management services that VI offers. VMware Studio is free of charge and delivers:
- A Web Console with appliance templates
- Virtual Appliance customization and build engine
- Update repository creation and publication
- Build process automation using CLI
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF) support
- Integration with VMware Infrastructure
- Integration with third-party management software
