Wiley Mastering VMware vSphere 5 978-0-470-89080-6 Benutzerhandbuch

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Now in its fi fth generation, VMware vSphere 5 builds on previous generations of VMware’s 
enterprise-grade virtualization products. vSphere 5 extends fi 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 up to thousands of servers.

In this chapter, you will learn to

 

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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

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

 

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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 vShield Zones

 

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VMware vCenter Orchestrator

 

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vSphere Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing

 

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vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion

 

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vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

 

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vSphere Storage DRS

 

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Storage I/O Control and Network I/O Control

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