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4. Supply a name for the cluster.
Don't select Turn ON vSphere DRS or Turn ON vSphere HA; we'll explore these options
later in the topic (Chapter 12 and Chapter 7, respectively).
Click Next.
5. Leave EVC set to Disable (the default), and click Next.
6. Don't select Turn On for vCloud Distributed Storage; again, we'll explain this in
Chapter 5.
7. Click OK.
Once the cluster is created, adding hosts to it is a matter of simply dragging the ESXi host
object onto the cluster object within the Navigator; vCenter Server will add the host to the clus-
ter. You may be prompted about resource pools; refer to Chapter 11 for more information on
what resource pools are and how they work.
Adding ESXi hosts to vCenter Server enables you to manage them with vCenter Server. You'll
explore some of vCenter Server's management features in the next section.
Exploring vCenter Server's Management Features
After your ESXi hosts are managed by vCenter Server, you can take advantage of some of vCen-
ter Server's management features:
Basic host management tasks in Hosts And Clusters view
Basic host coni guration
Scheduled tasks
Events
Host proi les
Tags
In the next few sections, you'll examine each of these areas in a bit more detail.
Understanding Basic Host Management
A great deal of the day-to-day management tasks for ESXi hosts in vCenter Server occur in the
Hosts And Clusters view. From this area, the context (right-click) menu for an ESXi host shows
some of the options available:
Enter Maintenance Mode
Reboot
Shutdown
Disconnect
New Virtual Machine
 
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