Chapter 1. Introduction to vSphere

IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

  • UNDERSTAND THE LEGACY FEATURES OF VSPHERE (Pages 4–11)

    • VMotion (Page 4)

    • VMware Cluster and Distributed Resource Scheduler (Page 6)

    • High Availability (Page 7)

    • VMware vCenter Converter and VMware vCenter Update Manager (Page 8)

    • VMware Capacity Planner (Page 9)

    • VMware Consolidated Backup and vSphere Client (Page 10)

    • VMware Service Console and vSphere Web Access (page 11)

  • UNDERSTAND THE NEW FEATURES OF VSPHERE (Pages 11–19)

    • 64 Bit and Distributed Power Management (Page 12)

    • Enhanced VMotion Compatibility and Enhanced Storage VMotion(Page 13)

    • Enhanced High Availability and Virtual Machine Scalability (Page 14)

    • vCenter Improvements (Page 15)

    • Fault Tolerance and vNetwork Distributed Switch (Page ...

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