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Create clusters to consolidate the resources of multiple hosts and virtual machines. You can enable
vSphere HA and vSphere DRS for increased availability and more flexible resource management. See
vSphere Availability for information about configuring vSphere HA and vSphere Resource Management for
information about configuring vSphere DRS.
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Create resource pools to provide logical abstraction and flexible management of the resources in
vSphere. Resource pools can be grouped into hierarchies and used to hierarchically partition available
CPU and memory resources. See vSphere Resource Management for details.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Create Datacenters,” on page 36
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“Add Hosts,” on page 37
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“Create Clusters,” on page 38
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“Create Resource Pools,” on page 38
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“Create Datastores,” on page 39
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“Create Host-Wide Networks,” on page 40
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“Create Datacenter-Wide Networks,” on page 40
Create Datacenters
A virtual datacenter is a container for all the inventory objects required to complete a fully functional
environment for operating virtual machines. You can create multiple datacenters to organize sets of
environments. For example, you might create a datacenter for each organizational unit in your enterprise or
create some datacenters for high performance environments and others for less demanding virtual
machines.
Prerequisites
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Open a vSphere Client session to a vCenter Server.
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Verify that you have sufficient permissions to create a datacenter object.
NOTE Inventory objects can interact within a datacenter, but interaction across datacenters is limited. For
example, you can hot migrate virtual machines from one host to another host in the same datacenter, but not
from a host in one datacenter to a host in a different datacenter.
Procedure
1 Go to Home > Inventory > Hosts and Clusters.
2 Select File > New > Datacenter.
3 Rename the datacenter.
What to do next
Add hosts, clusters, resource pools, vApps, networking, datastores, and virtual machines to the datacenter.
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