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Set up networking by using vSphere Standard Switches or vSphere Distributed Switches. To use
services such as vMotion, TCP/IP storage, VMware vSAN™, and Fault Tolerance, setup VMkernel
networking for these services. For more information, see vSphere Networking.
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Configure storage systems and create datastore inventory objects to provide logical containers for
storage devices in your inventory. See vSphere Storage.
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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 Data Centers
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Add a Host
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Create a Folder
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Create Clusters
Create Data Centers
A virtual data center is a container for all the inventory objects required to complete a fully functional
environment for operating virtual machines. You can create multiple data centers to organize sets of
environments. For example, you might create a data center for each organizational unit in your enterprise
or create some data centers for high-performance environments and others for less demanding virtual
machines.
Prerequisites
In the vSphere Client, verify that you have sufficient permissions to create a data center object.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Client, navigate to the vCenter Server object.
2 Select Actions > New Datacenter.
3 Rename the data center and click OK.
What to do next
Add hosts, clusters, resource pools, vApps, networking, datastores, and virtual machines to the data
center.
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