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vCenter Server Components and Support Tools

When you install vCenter Server, other components are also installed.
The following components can also be installed when you install vCenter Server.
VMware vCenter Server
vCenter Single Sign-On
vCenter Inventory
Service
Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1
Framework
Microsoft Windows
Installer version 4.5
VMware vCenter
Orchestrator
Microsoft SQL Server
2008 R2 Express
(optional)
vSphere Web Client
vSphere Update
Manager
vSphere ESXi Dump
Collector
vSphere Syslog
Collector
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Windows service to manage ESXi and legacy ESX hosts.
The vCenter Single Sign-On authentication service makes the VMware cloud
infrastructure platform more secure by allowing the various vSphere
software components to communicate with each other through a secure
token exchange mechanism, instead of requiring each component to
authenticate a user separately with a directory service like Active Directory.
Available and required with vCenter Server 5.1.
Inventory Service stores vCenter Server application and inventory data,
enabling you to search and access inventory objects across linked vCenter
Servers.
Software used by the Database Upgrade wizard and the vSphere Web Client.
Also used by vCenter Server if you are using the bundled database. If it is
not installed on your system, the vCenter Server installer installs it.
If you plan to use the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express database that is
bundled with vCenter Server, Microsoft Windows Installer version 4.5 (MSI
4.5) is required on your system. You can also install MSI 4.5 directly from the
vCenter Server
autorun.exe
vCenter Server module that provides a set of tools to manage your virtual IT
environment. vCenter Orchestrator module is not supported on IPv6-only
operating systems. If you install vCenter Server in a mixed environment
(both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled), the vCenter Orchestrator module can be
configured using IPv4. See the Administering vCenter Orchestrator. This
component is installed automatically with vCenter Server.
Free, bundled version of the Microsoft SQL Server database for smaller scale
applications. If you choose to use an existing database, the installer does not
install the bundled database.
Server application that you can use to manage an ESXi host by Web browser
through a vCenter Server.
vCenter Server component that provides security monitoring and patching
support for hosts and virtual machines.
vCenter Server support tool. You can configure ESXi to dump the vmkernel
memory to a network server, rather than to a disk, when the system has
encountered a critical failure. The Dump Collector collects such memory
dumps over the network.
vCenter Server support tool that provides a unified architecture for system
logging and enables network logging and combining of logs from multiple
hosts.
installer.
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