Information Technology Reference
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Deploy OVF Template
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New Datastore
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The All vCenter Actions submenu has even more options:
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New vApp
New Resource Pool
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Add Networking
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Enter Standby Mode
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Rescan Storage
Export System Logs
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Host Proi les
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Remove From Inventory
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The majority of these options are described in later chapters. Chapter 9 describes creating
VMs, and Chapter 11 discusses resource pools. Chapter 8 covers permissions, and Chapter 13
discusses alarms and reports. The remaining actions—shutting down, rebooting, powering on,
standing by, disconnecting, and removing from vCenter Server—are self-explanatory and do
not need any additional explanation.
Additional commands may appear on this context menu as extensions or are installed into
vCenter Server depending on the ESXi host's coni guration. For example, after you install
vSphere Update Manager, several new commands appear on the context menu for an ESXi host.
In addition, ESXi hosts in a cluster enabled for vSphere HA would have additional options.
You'll learn more about vSphere HA in Chapter 7.
In addition to the context menu, the tabs across the middle content area of the vSphere Web
Client also provide some host-management features. Figure 3.21 shows some of the tabs.
Figure 3.21
When a host is
selected in the
inventory view,
the tabs across the
top also provide
host-management
features.
Within each of these tabs are subsections that further divide the settings into appropriate
areas. For the most part, these tabs correspond closely to the commands on the context menu.
Here are the tabs and subsections that are displayed when a host is selected in the inventory
view, along with a brief description of what each does:
Summary
The Summary tab gathers and displays information about the underlying physi-
cal hardware, the storage devices that are coni gured and accessible, the networks that are
coni gured and accessible, and the status of certain features such as vMotion and vSphere
