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Table Of Contents
- Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introducing Lab Manager and the Installation Process
- Preparing to Install Lab Manager
- Installing Lab Manager
- Upgrading Lab Manager
- Supported Upgrades
- Before Upgrading
- Installing a VirtualCenter Server
- Undeploying Virtual Machines and Removing Managed Servers
- Backing Up the Lab Manager Database
- Uninstalling the Managed Server Agent Software
- Uninstalling the Program Files for Lab Manager Server
- Installing the Lab Manager Server Software
- Upgrading ESX Server
- Configuring a VirtualCenter Server
- Upgrading and Configuring Lab Manager
- Understanding the Upgrade
- Index
Lab Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide
8 VMware, Inc.
VMwareVirtualCenterServerisacontrolpointforthedatacenterandprovides
datacenterservicessuchasaccesscontrol,performancemonitoring,andconfiguration.
VirtualCenteralsoprovidesadvancedVMwareInfrastructurecapabilitiesdescribedin
“UsingVMwareInfrastructureCapabilities”onpage 8.ESXhostscontinuetofunction
eveniftheVirtualCenterServerbecomesunreachable(forexample,
thenetwork
connectionissevered).
Using Clusters, Hosts, Resource Pools, and Datastores
IntheVirtualCenterServer,youcanview,configure,andmanagethefollowingkey
elements:
Computingandmemoryresourcescalledhosts,clusters,andresourcepools
Storageresourcescalleddatastores
Networks
Virtualmachines
SeetheVMwareInfrastructure3documentationat
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vi_pages/vi_pubs_35.html
Hosts,clusters,andresourcepoolsprovideflexiblewaystoorganizetheaggregated
computingandmemoryresourcesinthevirtualenvironmentandlinkthembacktothe
underlyingphysicalresources.
Ahostrepresentstheaggregatecomputingandmemoryresourcesofaphysical
x86server.
Aclusteractsandcanbemanagedmuchlikeahost.Itrepresentstheaggregate
computingandmemoryresourcesofagroupofphysicalx86serverssharingthe
samenetworkandstoragearrays.
Resourcepoolsarepartitionsofcomputingandmemoryresourcesfromasingle
hostoracluster.WithVMware Distributed Resource Scheduler,thesepoolscanbe
hierarchicalandnested.
Using VMware Infrastructure Capabilities
Lab ManagerusesVMwareInfrastructurecapabilitiessuchasVMwareVMotion™,
VMwareDRS,andVMwareHighAvailability(HA).Thesearedistributedservicesthat
enableefficientandautomatedresourcemanagementandhighvirtualmachine
availability.