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Ifyoursystemislicensed,youcanenablethefollowingclusterfeatures:
 VMwareHA–AllowsVirtualCentertomigrateandrestartavirtualmachine
whenahostfails.VMwareHAisnotlistedasaninventoryobjectitself,butit
allowstheclusterobjecttobeseen.
 VMwareDRS–MonitorstheVirtualCenterenvironment,makesinitialplacement
recommendations,makesvirtualmachinemigrationrecommendations,makes
distributedpowermanagementrecommendations,andenablesVirtualCenterto
automaticallyplaceandmigratevirtualmachinesonhoststoattainthebestuseof
clusterandpowerresources.VMwareDRSisnotlistedasaninventory
object
itself,butitallowstheclusterobjecttobeseen.
SeetheResourceManagementGuideforcomprehensiveinformationonusing
VMwareInfrastructureClientclusters.
 Hosts–Childobjectsarevirtualmachinesorresourcepools.HostsareESXServer
systems.Thetermhostreferstothevirtualizationplatformthatisthehosttothe
virtualmachines.HostisthedefaulttopstructureforastandaloneESXServer
machine.
WhentheVirtualCenterServerisconnectedtothe
VMwareInfrastructureClient,
allESXServersystemsregisteredwithVirtualCenterarereferredtoashosts.ESX
ServersystemsdirectlyconnectedtotheVMwareInfrastructureClientarereferred
toasstandalonehosts.
SeetheESXServer3ConfigurationGuideorESXServer3iConfigurationGuidefor
comprehensiveinformationonconfiguringyourESX
Serversystem.
 Resourcepools–Childobjectsarevirtualmachinesorresourcepools.Resource
poolsareavailableonESXServerhostsaswellasthroughVirtualCenterServers.
AVMwareInfrastructureClientresourcepoolisusedtoallocatehost‐provided
CPUandmemorytothevirtualmachinesresidenttothehost.
SeetheResource
ManagementGuideforcomprehensiveinformationonusing
resourcepools.
 Virtualmachines–Locatedwithinahost,virtualdisksonadatastore,associated
withinaclusterorresourcepool.Canbelistedasachildobjecttohosts,clusters,
orresourcepools.Canbemovedbetweenhostsorclusters.Whenaddingtoa
clusterorresourcepool,youmustspecifyor
haveintheclusterorresourcepoola
designatedtargethost.
 Templates–Atemplateisamastercopyofavirtualmachinethatcanbeusedto
createandprovisionnewvirtualmachines.