Vsphere 4 Architecture Overview - Dell External OEMR 2800 Deployment Manual

vSphere 4 Architecture Overview

Figure 2. vSphere Components
Storage Interconnect
Fabric
vSphere infrastructure consists of the following components:
• ESX — Allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on
a single system.
vCenter Server — Runs on Windows-based operating systems and
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monitors and manages Virtual Machines (VM) and copies of ESX. With
vCenter Server, you can create, start, stop, and migrate VMs across the
entire physical data center. vCenter Server is optional and is required for
advanced management capabilities such as VMware VMotion,
Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS), and High Availability (HA).
vSphere
Client/vSphere
CLI
PowerEdge System as
ESX Host
External Storage
for VMs
License Server
vCenter Server
Ethernet Fabric
ESX Deployment Guide
Database
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