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Congure 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 exible resource management. See
vSphere Availability for information about conguring vSphere HA and vSphere Resource Management for
information about conguring vSphere DRS.
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Create resource pools to provide logical abstraction and exible 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,” on page 66
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“Add a Host,” on page 66
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“Create Clusters,” on page 67
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“Create a Folder,” on page 68
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 Web Client, verify that you have sucient permissions to create a data center object.
Procedure
1 In the vSphere Web 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.
Add a Host
You can add hosts under a data center object, folder object, or cluster object. If a host contains virtual
machines, those virtual machines are added to the inventory together with the host.
You can also add hosts to a DRS cluster, for details see vSphere Resource Management.
Prerequisites
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Verify that a data center, folder, or cluster exists in the inventory.
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Obtain the user name and password of the root user account for the host.
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Verify that hosts behind a rewall are able to communicate with the vCenter Server system and all other
hosts through port 902 or other custom-congured port.
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Verify that all NFS mounts on the host are active.
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