HP UPS Management Module Installation and Configuration Guidelines for VMware ESX

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Figure 1. Virtual infrastructure
Item Description
1—4 Guest operating systems
5 Service Console layer
6 VMware Virtualization layer
7 Central processing unit (CPU)
8 Memory
9 Disk
10 Network interface controller
VMware ESX hardware configuration options
This paper addresses three basic hardware configurations:
• UPS directly connected to multiple VMware ESX servers
• UPS directly connected to a single VMware ESX server
• UPS directly connected to a single VMware ESX server and a storage area network (SAN)