Overview; Introduction - Dell External OEMR 2950 Deployment Manual

Overview

This document is a companion guide to the VMware
guides and provides additional information for supporting the Dell™
PowerEdge™ systems. The document covers the following:
• Introduction — provides a brief overview of the VMware ESX Server and
VMware VirtualCenter products and technologies.
• What's New — provides information about additional supported hardware
and updated software in this release.
• Licensing — provides a list of licensing options available to customers.
• Dell-Supported Configurations — provides a list of qualified and
supported ESX Server and VirtualCenter configurations.
• Installing ESX Server and VirtualCenter — provides guidelines for
installing the ESX Server software and VirtualCenter.
• Installing Dell OpenManage™ — provides references to install and use
Dell OpenManage.
• Additional Resources — provides references to additional documentation.

Introduction

This document helps you to deploy VMware Infrastructure 3.0.2 on
PowerEdge systems and provides information specific to Dell servers and
storage systems, recommended configurations, best practices, and additional
resources. VMware Infrastructure consists of the ESX Server software
and VirtualCenter.
ESX Server allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on a
single physical server. These operating systems, referred to as virtual machines,
can be created and managed faster than possible with conventional systems,
since the virtual machines do not interact directly with the physical hardware.
Each of these virtual machines run in a resource-isolated, secure environment
and can include Microsoft
Sun Solaris operating systems with their associated applications.
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