VMware vSphere

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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)