Vsphere Components; Components Of Vsphere - VMware 4817V62 - vSphere - PC Administration Manual

vSphere Components

VMware vSphere™ includes components and operations essential for managing virtual machines. vSphere
works with several client interfaces and offers many optional components and modules, such as VMware High
Availability (HA), VMware VMotion™, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware Update
Manager, and VMware Converter Enterprise.
vSphere allows you to treat your virtual environment objects as managed components such as virtual machines,
hosts, datacenters, resource pools, and clusters. Functional components of vSphere provide the best way to
manage each of these managed components of your virtual environment.
Finally, vSphere provides powerful administration tools through access privileges components.
This chapter includes the following topics:

"Components of vSphere,"

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"vSphere Client Interfaces,"
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"Functional Components,"
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"Managed Components,"
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"Access Privileges Components,"
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"vCenter Server Modules,"
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"vCenter Components That Require Tomcat,"
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"Optional vCenter Server Components,"
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Components of vSphere
VMware vSphere is a suite of software components for virtualization.
To run your vSphere environment, you need the following components:
ESX/ESXi
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A virtualization platform used to create the virtual machines as a set of
configuration and disk files that together perform all the functions of a physical
machine.
Through ESX/ESXi, you run the virtual machines, install operating systems,
run applications, and configure the virtual machines. Configuration includes
identifying the virtual machine's resources, such as storage devices.
The server provides bootstrapping, management, and other services that
manage your virtual machines.
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