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== Networking == | == Networking == | ||
* vSphere Distributed Switches ( | * vSphere Distributed Switches (VDS) | ||
* vSphere Standard Switches ( | * vSphere Standard Switches (VSS) | ||
== Storage == | |||
* vSAN | |||
* NFS | |||
* iSCSI | |||
* Fibre Channel SAN - FCSAN | |||
== Content Library == | |||
A feature since 6.5 that allows VM templates to be shared across different vSphere. | |||
== Migration == | |||
* vMotion across ESXi hosts, across datacenters, encrypted. | |||
vRealize Orchestrator | |||
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) | |||
* Across 64 ESXi hosts | |||
Patch management using VMware vSphere Update Manager | |||
Revision as of 18:31, 7 January 2019
vSphere is a server virtualization platform from VMware. It is not an operating system or application per se. The name covers a range of technologies by VMWare since version 4 of their software (eg. ESX server, VMWare Infrastructure)
vCenter controls ESXi hosts. ESXi runs any number of VMs. Total 1024 VMs per host. 768 CPUs per ESXi host?
Clients
- Adobe Flex/Flash
- HTML5 - Not fully featured yet
- vSphere Client - Deprecated windows client
Networking
- vSphere Distributed Switches (VDS)
- vSphere Standard Switches (VSS)
Storage
- vSAN
- NFS
- iSCSI
- Fibre Channel SAN - FCSAN
Content Library
A feature since 6.5 that allows VM templates to be shared across different vSphere.
Migration
- vMotion across ESXi hosts, across datacenters, encrypted.
vRealize Orchestrator
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- Across 64 ESXi hosts
Patch management using VMware vSphere Update Manager