Specifications

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VirtualCenter Management Server (VirtualCenter Server) – The central point for configuring,
provisioning, and managing virtualized IT environments.
Virtual Infrastructure Client (VI Client) – An interface that allows users to connect remotely to the
VirtualCenter Server or individual ESX Servers from any Windows PC.
Virtual Infrastructure Web Access (VI Web Access) – A Web interface that allows virtual machine
management and access to remote consoles.
VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) – A high-performance cluster file system for ESX Server
virtual machines.
VMware Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) – Feature that enables a single virtual machine to
use multiple physical processors simultaneously.
VMware VMotion – Feature that enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one physical
server to another with zero down time, continuous service availability, and complete transaction integrity.
VMware HA – Feature that provides easy-to-use, cost-effective high availability for applications running in
virtual machines. In the event of server failure, affected virtual machines are automatically restarted on other
production servers that have spare capacity.
VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) – Feature that allocates and balances computing
capacity dynamically across collections of hardware resources for virtual machines.
VMware Consolidated Backup (Consolidated Backup) – Feature that provides an easy-to-use,
centralized facility for agent-free backup of virtual machines. It simplifies backup administration and reduces
the load on ESX Servers.
VMware Infrastructure SDK – Feature that provides a standard interface for VMware and third-party
solutions to access the VMware Infrastructure.
Figure 1.4 illustrates the six basic components of virtualization infrastructure that are part of our deployment
guide.
A single VirtualCenter manages multiple ESX Server hosts.