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Thismanual,BasicSystemAdministration,describeshowtostartandstoptheVMware
®

InfrastructureClient(VIClient)components,buildyourVMwareInfrastructure
environment,monitorandmanagetheinformationgeneratedaboutthecomponents,
andsetuprolesandpermissionsforusersandgroupsusingtheVMwareInfrastructure
environment.Thismanualalsoprovidesinformationformanaging,creating,and
configuringvirtualmachinesinyourdatacenter.
In
addition,thismanualprovidesbriefintroductionstothevarioustasksyoucan
performwithinthesystemaswellascross‐referencestothedocumentationthat
describesallthetasksindetail.
BasicSystemAdministrationcoversbothVMwareESXServer3.5andVMwareESX
Server3i,version3.5.Foreaseofdiscussion,
thisbookusesthefollowingproduct
namingconventions:
 FortopicsspecifictoESXServer3.5,thisbookusestheterm“ESXServer3.”
 FortopicsspecifictoESXServer3iversion3.5,thisbookusestheterm“ESXServer
3i.”
 Fortopicscommontobothproducts,thisbookusestheterm“ESXServer.”
 Whentheidentificationofaspecificreleaseisimportanttoadiscussion,thisbook
referstotheproductbyitsfull,versionedname.
 WhenadiscussionappliestoallversionsofESXServerforVMwareInfrastructure
3,thisbookusestheterm“ESXServer3.x.”
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