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Figure 5
The VMware vSphere environment delivers a robust application environment. For example, with
VMware vSphere, all applications can be protected from downtime with VMware High Availability
(HA) and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT), without the complexity of conventional clustering. In addition,
applications can be scaled dynamically to meet changing loads with capabilities such as Hot Add and
VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
For more information on VMware vSphere, see:
http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/overview.html
Domain and Element Management
This section of the document provides general descriptions of the domain and element managers used
during the validation effort. The following managers were used:
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VMware vSphere Feature Overview
Cisco UCS Manager
NetApp OnCommand®
VMware vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod with Nexus 7000 Using FCoE
FlexPod Design Details
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