VMWare Workstation has always been a pretty good desktop virtualization product. I first used VMware Workstation 3 back in 2004. Back then I used it for testing recovery scenarios.
The latest Workstation offering from VMWare shows why this product has managed to be so strong in the past. The key features in this version are:

VMware have released VMware™ Server 2.0 today. The beta product has been available for some time. The second release of the VMware product has introduced some nice improvements to the previous version.
The features introduced in the latest version include:

64bit operating system support
A new Web Access management Interface
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
Support for Virtual Machine Interface (VMI)
Virtual Machine [...]