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I'm working on a project to consolidate servers. &nbsp;Of course, they will not purchase any new equipment so I'm trying to figure out a solution with what we have.<br />
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I have several HP Proliant 380 G4 servers with external drive bays. &nbsp;I'm looking to virtualize a secondary DC, a few development and QA servers, and a web server with very little load. &nbsp;I have licensing for 2008 Server and 2003 server. &nbsp;I know I can not use Hyper-V since they are 32Bit servers and I see Vmware server is no longer supported as of last year. &nbsp;<br />
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Could anyone provide a possible solution to virtualize some servers in the environment I have?
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I'm working on a project to consolidate servers.  Of course, they will not purchase any new equipment so I'm trying to figure out a solution with what we have.

I have several HP Proliant 380 G4 servers with external drive bays.  I'm looking to virtualize a secondary DC, a few development and QA servers, and a web server with very little load.  I have licensing for 2008 Server and 2003 server.  I know I can not use Hyper-V since they are 32Bit servers and I see Vmware server is no longer supported as of last year.  

Could anyone provide a possible solution to virtualize some servers in the environment I have?

Virtual Solutions for a Windows 2003/2008 Environment on 32Bit OS

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.