User`s guide

VMware Stage Manager User’s Guide
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VMware VirtualCenter Serverisacontrolpointforthedatacenterandprovides
datacenterservicessuchasaccesscontrol,performancemonitoring,andconfiguration.
VirtualCenteralsoprovidesadvancedVMware Infrastructurecapabilitiesdescribedin
“LeveragingVMware InfrastructureCapabilities”onpage 19.ESXServerhosts
continuetofunctioneveniftheVirtualCenterServerbecomesunreachable(for
example,thenetworkconnection
issevered).
Using Clusters, Hosts, Resource Pools, and Datastores
InVirtualCenter Server,youcanview,configure,andmanagethesekeyelements:
 Computingandmemoryresourcescalledhosts,clusters,andresourcepools
 Storageresourcescalleddatastores
 Networks
 Virtualmachines
SeeVMware Infrastructure3documentationat
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vi_pages/vi_pubs_35.html.
InStage Manager,youcanassignresourcepoolstoindividualstagesinservicesto
partitionavailableCPUandmemoryresources.Hosts,clusters,andresourcepools
provideflexiblewaystoorganizetheaggregatedcomputingandmemoryresourcesin
thevirtualenvironmentandlinkthemback
totheunderlyingphysicalresources.
Reviewthesedefinitions:
 Ahostrepresentstheaggregatecomputingandmemoryresourcesofaphysical
x86server.
 Aclusteractsandcanbemanagedmuchlikeahost.Itrepresentstheaggregate
computingandmemoryresourcesofagroupofphysicalx86serverssharingthe
samenetworkandstoragearrays.
 Resourcepoolsarepartitionsofcomputingandmemoryresourcesfromasingle
hostoracluster.WithVMware Distributed Resource Scheduler,thesepoolscanbe
hierarchicalandnested.
Inadditiontoassigningresourcepoolstoastage,useStage Managertomonitor
resourceconsumptionattheserviceandstagelevel.