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VMWARE VSPHERE

VMware vSphere

Overview

VMware vSphere (formerly VMware Infrastructure 4) is VMware’s cloud computing virtualization platform. VMware vSphere debuted in 2009 as the successor to the company’s flagship VMware Infrastructure solution, and it serves as a complete platform for implementing and managing virtual machine (VM) infrastructure on a large scale.

Also referred to as a cloud operating system or virtualized data center platform, VMware vSphere enables IT departments to efficiently place application workloads on the most cost-effective compute resource available.

VMware vSphere includes the VMware ESX / ESXi hypervisor, a type 1 hypervisor that functions as the virtualization server; the VMware vCenter Server, which manages vSphere environments; the VMware vSphere Client, which is used to install and manage virtual machines through the hypervisor; and VMware VMFS, the file system component from VMware.

The latest version of vSphere, 6.7 Update 3, was released on August 13th, 2019. VMware vSphere can also now be purchased as part of the company’s new VMware vCloud Suite.

Features

VMware ESXi: a type 1 hypervisor responsible for abstracting processors, memory, storage and other resources into multiple virtual machines (VMs).
VMware vCenter Server: formerly known as VirtualCenter, this management tool is the central control point for data center services and provides a single pane of glass view across ESXi hosts.
VMware vSphere Client: a new HTML5-basedmanagement interface that enables users to remotely connect to vCenter Server. The vSphere Client will eventually replace the vSphere Web Client, but is not yet complete.
VMware Virtual SMP: a utility that enables a single VM to use multiple physical processors at the same time.
VMotion: a feature that enables live migration for powered-on VMs in the same data center. Storage vMotion: similar to standard vMotion, this enables the live migration of virtual disks or configuration files to a new data store while a VM is running.
VSphere High Availability (HA): formerly known as VMware HA, this utility restarts failed VMs on other available servers.

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Last Revised: 2020-06-09