vSphere Product Breakdown by Edition Additional Products vCenter Operations Manager Monitors trends and looks for risks Works with vCenter server to gather and consolidate performance statistics into “SuperMetrics” SuperMetrics organized into categories: Health, Risk, and Efficiency Health: Immediate issues that need to be resolved or investigated Risk: Issues that will affect capacity or performance in ..
Category : Data Center Virtualization
VMs take advantage of Virtual Networking. So do ESXi hosts and vCenter. This allows multiple VMs to share a single network card. Virtual Machines must have proper addresses and protocols Use Virtual Switches to attach VMs to the physical network, or Create isolated networks to use during testing and development Provides same flexibility that server ..
Shared Storage Multiple computers access data on the same storage device In the virtual world, shared storage means VMs Most vCenter features require this. vCenter features that REQUIRE shared storage DRS DPM Storage DRS High Availability Fault Tolerance Shared Storage Supported Formats Fibre Channel Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) iSCSI NFS Local Storage Fibre Channel ..
vMotion vMotion is a migration process vMotion allows you to migrate a running VM from one ESXi host to another. Can be used to load balance ESXi hosts in a cluster by moving VMs to a host with more available resources. Allows you to perform hardware adjustments by moving all VMs to another host How ..
Hypervisor Provides VMs with their virtual hardware Provides appropriate share of physical resources (CPU, HDD, RAM, Bandwidth) as defined. Performance is determined by the resources allocated to the VM. Type 1: “Bare Metal” Hypervisors Typically used for Data Center Virtualization due to less dependence on an OS and is more efficient because performs both rolls ..
Objectives Discuss features of VMware vSphere Provide overview of challenges vSphere is intended to resolve What is a Virtual Machine Virtual machines look and feel like dedicated servers Hardware is just software: Allows you to replace and upgrade hardware on the fly Add new hardware devices without reboots What can a VM do? Host any ..
VMware Training Links https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrCourse/launchCourse.cfm?id_registrant=17568200&id_host=175&id_course=189018&ui=www_edu&rGUID=df3d95d2-e04f-4339-9399-0efed856cca0&uGUID=9936fa59-282f-4d88-91ab-7b836dd91812 http://vmware-esxi.com/vcenter-server/ What is Data Center Virtualization “The conversion of Hardware Devices into Software Resources” Problems with Multiple Servers Multiple Servers are required when there are several applications, often needing different OS or need to be segragated from other systems for security. Each Server consumes power. Each Server dissipates heat. Virtualization breaks ..
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