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Chapter 2. Installing Virtual Center

Introduction

VMware VirtualCenter is the management application used to administer and configure both ESX servers, and the virtual machines.

VirtualCenter Overview

VMware VirtualCenter manages the entire ESX server farm. From within the VirtualCenter console you can do the following:

Server templates are deployed from this console for rapid deployment of virtual machines. Templates are stored server configurations that are used to deploy ...

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