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4. About VMware AT A GLANCE Founded: 1998 URL: www.vmware.com Headquarters: 3401 Hillview Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94304 Employees: More than 7,100 2009 Revenue: $2 billion, 5th largest infrastructure software company Customers: More than 170,000 • 100% of the Fortune 100 • 93% of the Fortune 500 • 96% of the Fortune 1000 • 100% of the Fortune Global 100 • 96% of the Fortune Global 500 Partners: 25,000 Professionals: Certified 48,000 Product Lines: VMware vSphere™ VMware View™ VMware vCenter™ VMware vCloud™ SpringSourceby VMware
5. What is vSphere 4? “VMware vSphere manages large collections of infrastructure (such as CPUs, storage, and networking) as a seamless and dynamic operating environment, and also manages the complexity of a datacenter.” - VMware Translation: vSphere 4 lets you create and manage a virtualized IT infrastructure to simplify and automate the administration of the physical server and network infrastructure while allowing you to maximize the hardware potential of that infrastructure.
6. ESX/ESXi 4.0 The Core component of vSphere 4 Type 1 Hypervisors ESX installs with a Service Console for local administration Service Console is a stripped down Linux OS ESXi administration is all done through a remote management interface Remote Management Interfaces: vSphere 4 Client Interface vSphere 4 Web Interface (not enabled by default on ESX) vShpere 4 Command-Line Interface vCenter Server 4
15. vSphere Management Assistant The VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) is a prepackaged Linux virtual machine in which administrators can deploy scripts and select third-party agents to manage ESX and ESXi systems. Software included in vMA includes vSphere CLI, an authentication component that supports non-interactive login, and a log collection component.
20. Available Application Services vMotion Storage vMotion VMware HA VMware DRS VMware FT vSheild Zones VM Hot Add Support VMDirectPath for Virtual Machines
29. VMware HA Virtual Machine B Virtual Machine A HA ESX Server VC Server Virtual Machine B Virtual Machine C Virtual Machine D HA ESX Server Virtual Machine A Virtual Machine E Virtual Machine F HA ESX Server
30. Exch Server Citrix SQL Server SAP DNS/DHCP Apache Oracle VMware DRS Dynamically manage workloads across a heterogeneous environment, in response to an unexpected increase in SAP utilization ESX Server 1(HP) ESX Server 2 (IBM) ESX Server 3 (Dell)
35. Available Infrastructure Services Virtual Disk Thin Provisioning vStorage VMFS Volume Grow vNetwork Distributed Switch IPv6 Support Power Management
36. Virtual Disk Thin Provisioning VMware thin provisioning enables virtual machines to utilize storage space on an as-needed basis, further increasing utilization of storage for virtual environments
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38. IPv6 Support vSphere 4.0 adds support for IPv6 for the following: ESX/ESXiVMkernel, Service Console vCenter Server This enables vSphere to manage ESX and ESXi hosts through vCenter Server in mixed IPv4/IPv6 environments Virtual Machine client support for IPv6 is still entirely dependent on the Guest OS Network storage support (iSCSI and NFS) over IPv6 is still experimental though