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Chapter 1
Introducing VMware vSphere 5
Now in its fi fth generation, VMware vSphere 5 builds on previous generations of VMware’s
enterprise-grade virtualization products. vSphere 5 extends fi ne-grained resource allocation
controls to more types of resources, enabling VMware administrators to have even greater con-
trol over how resources are allocated to and used by virtual workloads. With dynamic resource
controls, high availability, unprecedented fault-tolerance features, distributed resource manage-
ment, and backup tools included as part of the suite, IT administrators have all the tools they
need to run an enterprise environment ranging from a few servers up to thousands of servers.
In this chapter, you will learn to
u Identify the role of each product in the vSphere product suite
u Recognize the interaction and dependencies between the products in the vSphere suite
u Understand how vSphere differs from other virtualization products
Exploring VMware vSphere 5
The VMware vSphere product suite is a comprehensive collection of products and features that
together provide a full array of enterprise virtualization functionality. The vSphere product
suite includes the following products and features:
u VMware ESXi
u VMware vCenter Server
u vSphere Update Manager
u VMware vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client
u VMware vShield Zones
u VMware vCenter Orchestrator
u vSphere Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing
u vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion
u vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
u vSphere Storage DRS
u Storage I/O Control and Network I/O Control
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