Information Technology Reference
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Figure 3.18
A departmental
vCenter Server
inventory allows
the IT administra-
tor to implement
controls within
each organizational
department.
In most enterprise environments, the vCenter Server inventory will be a hybrid of the differ-
ent topologies. Perhaps one topology might be a geographical top level, followed by departmen-
tal management, followed by project-based resource coni guration.
Folders can be used to organize all different object types within vCenter Server. Figure 3.19
shows how you have the ability to create folders designated for the different objects such as
hosts and clusters or VMs and templates.
Figure 3.19
Create folders to
organize objects
within the vCenter
Web Client.
These inventory views are mostly separate and independent, although as we pointed out
earlier, they do share datacenter objects. For example, the Hosts And Clusters view may rel ect a
