This document provides an agenda and overview of VMware vSphere and how to install the vSphere client and vCenter server. It defines vSphere as VMware's virtualization platform, lists its main components as the ESXi hypervisor, vSphere client, and vCenter server. It then provides step-by-step instructions for installing the vSphere client to manage ESXi servers and vCenter server to manage multiple ESXi servers and their VMs from a single interface.

2. AGENDA
What is vSphere?
Components of vSphere.
Vmware vSphere client
Vmware Vcenter server

3. What is VMware vSphere?
Its one of the virtualization platform from VMware's Enterprise
Other VMware Virtualization Platforms:
 vsphere Desktop and Vmware view
 Vmware workstation
Other Vendor Virtualization Platforms:
Citrix Xenserver
Microsoft Hyper-V

4. Main components of vSphere 5
ESXi 5:
Hypervisor Operating system that runs on the physical
server. (Type 1 hypervisor)
vSphere Client:
To install, manage and access virtual servers
vCenter Server:
Its is similar to vSphere client, used to manage multiple ESX
servers and virtual machines.

5. Installation of Vsphere client 5.0
The vSphere Client is used to connect to and manage
either ESXi servers individually, or more often to connect to a
vCenter server to manage multiple ESXi servers in a single
interface.
STEP: 1

6. STEP: 2

7. STEP: 3

8. STEP: 4

9. STEP: 5

10. STEP: 6

11. STEP: 7

12. STEP: 8

13. Installation of Vcenter server 5.0
VMware vCenter Server is the management system for your VMware
vSphere private cloud It's used to manage your clusters of ESXi
servers, configure HA, DRS and vMotion, manage your virtual
networks and their interfaces to the physical network.
Its also used to provison storage (maybe even integrated with your
SAN) and create virtual machines, including templates and other
wonderful things.

14. Vcenter server

15. Minimum Requirements for the vCenter Server
 Processor: Two 64-bit CPUs Intel or AMD x64 2.0GHz or faster
 Memory: 4GB RAM (RAM requirements may be higher if your
database runs on the same machine)
 Disk storage: 5GB (Disk requirements may be higher if your
database runs on the same machine)
 Networking: 1GB recommended (If physical team NICs for
redundancy)
 Operating System: Windows Server 2008 (64-bit), Windows
Server 2008 R2

16. Click "vCenter Server" to start the installation

20. Enter your customer info, username, organisation and license.

25. Verify the ports to use for vCenter server, change if required

26. Verify the ports to use for the inventory service and change if
required

27. Select your deployment inventory size to correctly size the
JVM memory

28. Click Install to begin the installation

30. The installation of vCenter server will complete, Click Finish

31. REFERENCE
 http://www.vmadmin.co.uk/resources/36-virtualcenter/275-vcenter5install
 http://www.vmadmin.co.uk/vmware/36-virtualcenter/276-vsphere5clientinstall
 http://www.mustbegeek.com/installing-vsphere-in-vmware-workstation/