Summary
With the release of vSphere, VMware continues to expand the capabilities of its successful VMware Infrastructure virtualization platform. VMware classifies the vSphere platform functionality into three groups of services:
- Infrastructure services
- Application services
- Management services
Each of these services further comprises several components that together make vSphere a reliable and scalable virtualization platform. Although infrastructure and application services are part of vSphere, the management services are provided by VMware vCenter Server. In this chapter, we provided a high-level overview of these services and details on the different components that make these services. Understanding the capabilities of the underlying virtualization ...
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