Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 1
Introducing VMware vSphere 5.5
Now in its i fth generation, VMware vSphere 5.5 builds on previous generations of VMware's
enterprise-grade virtualization products. vSphere 5.5 extends i ne-grained resource allocation
controls to more types of resources, enabling VMware administrators to have even greater con-
trol over how resources are allocated to and used by virtual workloads. With dynamic resource
controls, high availability, unprecedented fault-tolerance features, distributed resource manage-
ment, and backup tools included as part of the suite, IT administrators have all the tools they
need to run an enterprise environment ranging from a few servers to thousands of servers.
In this chapter, you will learn to
Identify the role of each product in the vSphere product suite
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Recognize the interaction and dependencies between the products in the vSphere suite
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Understand how vSphere differs from other virtualization products
Exploring VMware vSphere 5.5
The VMware vSphere product suite is a comprehensive collection of products and features that
together provide a full array of enterprise virtualization functionality. The vSphere product
suite includes the following products and features:
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VMware ESXi
VMware vCenter Server
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vSphere Update Manager
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VMware vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client
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VMware vCenter Orchestrator
vSphere Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing
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vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion
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vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
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vSphere Storage DRS
Storage I/O Control and Network I/O Control
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Proi le-driven storage
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