Chapter 1: VMware vSphere 4 Overview
VMware vSphere 4 is the new major version of VMware’s flagship virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure 3. A bare-metal hypervisor that enables full virtualization of industry-standard x86 hardware forms the foundation of this virtualization platform. In addition to this hypervisor, vSphere includes several advanced features that support innovative applications of virtualization technology. These features range from resource pooling, dynamic balancing of workloads, high availability, and disaster recovery.
VMware classifies all these vSphere features into this set of services:
- Infrastructure services
- Application services
- Management services
The infrastructure and application services are part of ...
