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Using vSphere
vSphere provides the foundation for any virtual datacenter small, medium, or large: Management services:
VMware vCenter Suite
Application services:
For availability, security, scalability
Infrastructure services:
VMware ESX/ESXi
vSphere also provides the major building blocks for VMware vCloud: Infrastructure, platform, and
software services on demand
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What Is Virtualization?
Virtualization allows you to run multiple operating systems as virtual machines on a single computer. Each copy of an operating system is
installed into a virtual machine.
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Hypervisor Architecture
A virtualization layer is installed. It uses either a hosted or a bare-metal hypervisor architecture.
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From the users perspective, a virtual machine is a software platform that, like a physical computer, runs an operating system and applications. From the hypervisors perspective, a virtual machine is a discrete set of files. Main files: Configuration file Virtual disk file NVRAM settings file Log file
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Virtual machine
Easy to move and copy:
Encapsulated into files Independent of physical hardware
Easy to manage:
Isolated from other virtual machines Insulated from hardware changes
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Up to 255GB RAM VM chipset 1 CPU (up to 8 CPUs with VMware Virtual SMP)
110 NICs
Virtual machine hardware is scalable enough to meet most business and application needs.
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Manage a virtual machine using its virtual machine console: Send power changes
to virtual machine.
Access virtual
machines guest operating system. VM console
VM console icon
Send Ctrl+Alt+Del to
guest operating system.
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Install from ISO image to virtual disk. Configure a datastore with a library of ISO images for easy virtual machine deployment and application installation.
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A template is a VMware vCenter Server feature used to create and provision new virtual machines. A template is a master image that typically includes a guest operating system, a set of applications, and a specific virtual machine configuration.
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Creating a Template
Clone virtual machine to template. Virtual machine can either be
powered on or powered off.
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Storage Overview
datastore types
NFS
storage technology
Locally Attached
Fibre Channel
iSCSI
NAS
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Datastores
A datastore is a logical storage unit that can use disk space on one physical device or one disk partition, or span several physical devices. Types of datastores: VMFS Network File System (NFS) Datastores are used to hold virtual machines, templates, and ISO images. A VMFS datastore can also hold a raw device mapping (RDM), which is used to access raw data.
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VMFS
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RDM
An RDM is a mapping file in a VMFS volume that acts as a proxy for a raw physical device. A raw disk can be used for existing data, virtual machine clustering, and storage array snapshots.
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Virtual machine disks consume only the amount of capacity needed. A virtual machine sees the full allocated disk size at all times. You can mix thick and thin formats. Full reporting and alerts help manage allocations and capacity.
More efficient storage utilization: Virtual disk allocation Used storage capacity 140GB 80GB Available datastore capacity 100GB
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Demonstration:
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Key Points
A virtual machine is a set of virtual hardware on which a supported guest
operating system and its applications run.
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