Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 1.1:
Product and feature cross-references
(continued)
VMware vSphere Product or
Feature
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vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client
Installation - Chapter 2 (vSphere Client)
Installation - Chapter 3 (Web Client)
Usage - Chapter 3
VMware vCenter Orchestrator
Chapter 14
vSphere Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing
Chapter 9
vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion
Chapter 12
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
Chapter 12
vSphere Storage DRS
Chapter 12
Storage I/O Control and Network I/O Control
Chapter 11
Profi le-driven storage
Chapter 6
vSphere High Availability
Chapter 7
vSphere Fault Tolerance
Chapter 7
vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection
Chapter 7
VMware Data Protection
Chapter 7
VSAN
Chapter 6
vSphere Replication
Chapter 7
Flash Read Cache
Installation - Chapter 6
Usage - Chapter 11
First we'll look at the actual products that make up the VMware vSphere product suite, and
then we'll examine the major features. Let's start with the products in the suite; in particular,
let's start with VMware ESXi.
Examining the Products in the vSphere Suite
In the following sections, we'll describe and review the products found in the vSphere product
suite.
VMware ESXi
The core of the vSphere product suite is the hypervisor, which is the virtualization layer that
serves as the foundation for the rest of the product line. In vSphere 5 and later, including
vSphere 5.5, the hypervisor comes in the form of VMware ESXi.
