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Figure 1-2. VMware Infrastructure Components Using Dell PowerEdge Systems and
Storage Systems
storage
interconnect
fabric
Before deploying VMware Infrastructure, follow the guidelines given below:
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For upgrade instructions, see the Installation and Upgrade Guide under
VMware Infrastructure 3 at www.vmware.com/support/pubs. This guide
provides details on different upgrade options and specific steps that need
to be followed for a successful upgrade.
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Determine the kind of licensing mode that will best suit the deployment
environment and design the licensing infrastructure accordingly.
•
Determine the kind of storage (local SCSI/SAS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel
SAN) for hosting virtual machines that will best suit the deployment
environment and design your storage infrastructure accordingly.
•
For Fibre Channel storage, determine the number of logical unit numbers
(LUNs), size of LUNs, RAID level of the LUNs, and the number of storage
groups.
•
Determine the number of virtual machines that will run on the ESX
Servers and their corresponding workloads.
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PowerEdge system as
ESX Server hosts
external storage for
virtual machines
VMware Infrastructure client
Ethernet
fabric
license server
VirtualCenter
server
VirtualCenter
database
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