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VMWare Cheatsheet
- vCloud Director – built on top of vSphere, enables the consolidation of virtual infrastructure across multiple clusters, the encapsulation of application services as portable vApps, and deployment of those services on-demand
- vCenter Server – centrally manages VMware vSphere environments
- vSphere – combination of products below, based on licensing level
- Compute
- ESX – OS-based hypervisor
- ESXi – bare-metal hypervisor
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) – continuously monitors utilization across a resource pool and intelligently allocates available resources among virtual machines according to business needs
- Distributed Power Management (DPM) – continuously optimizes power consumption in the datacenter, by dynamically powering on/off VMs
- Storage
- VMFS – Virtual Machine File System
- Thin Provisioning – allows over-allocation of storage capacity for increased storage utilization
- Storage I/O Control – enables a pre-programmed response to occur when access to a storage resource becomes contentious
- Network
- Distributed Switch – simplifies virtual machine networking by enabling you to set up virtual machine networking for your entire datacenter from a centralized interface
- Network I/O Control – configure rules and policies to specify the business priority of each VM. When I/O congestion is detected, Network I/O Control dynamically allocates the available I/O resources to flow types according to your rules
- Availability
- vMotion – live migration
- Storage vMotion – enables you to perform live migration of virtual machine disk files across heterogeneous storage arrays
- High Availability – provides cost effective, automated restart within minutes for all applications in the event of hardware or operating system failures
- Fault Tolerance – provides continuous availability for applications in the event of server failures, by creating a live shadow instance of a virtual machine that is in virtual lockstep with the primary instance
- Data Recovery – protects against data loss in your virtual environment by enabling fast backups to disk and, more importantly, fast and complete recovery
- Security
- vShield Zones – simplifies application security by enforcing corporate security policies at the application level in a shared environment, while still maintaining trust and network segmentation of users and sensitive data
- VMSafe – enables the use of security products that work in conjunction with the virtualization layer to provide higher levels of security to virtual machines than even physical servers
- Scalability
- DRS – see above
- Hot Add – enables CPU and memory to be added to virtual machines when needed without disruption or downtime
- Infrastructure & Operations Management
- vCenter Operations – automate performance, capacity and configuration management. It collects and analyzes performance data, correlates abnormalities and identifies the root cause of building performance problems
- Site Recovery Manager – leverages cost-efficient vSphere Replication or storage-based replication to provide: replication of applications to a secondary site, management of recovery and migration plans, non-disruptive testing, and fully automated site recovery and migration
- CapacityIQ – Optimize utilization of existing hardware resources, Plan for potential business and service disruptions proactively by modeling the impact of an outage, failure or disaster, and Model the effect of one-time strategic business changes.
- Configuration Manager – policy-driven automation detects deep system changes and identifies whether that change is within policy or whether it has created a compliance violation or security vulnerability
- Orchestrator – provides out of the box workflows that can help administrators automate existing manual tasks.
- Converter – formerly P2V
- Lab Manager – Provide automated management of highly transient and highly cloned virtual environments
- Business Management
- Chargeback – automate chargeback with VM consumption data from vCenter or vCloud Director
- Service Manager – automates IT Service Management processes in enterprise organizations
Licensing Matrix
| Standard | Enterprise | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | Server consolidation and no planned downtime | Powerful & efficient resource management | Policy-based datacenter automation |
| Processor Entitlement | Per 1 CPU | Per 1 CPU | Per 1 CPU |
| vRAM Entitlement | 32GB | 64GB | 96GB |
| vCPU Entitlement | 8-way | 8-way | 32-way |
| Thin Provisioning | X | X | X |
| Update Manager | X | X | X |
| Data Recovery | X | X | X |
| High Availability | X | X | X |
| vMotion | X | X | X |
| Storage APIs for Data Protection | X | X | X |
| Virtual Serial Port Concentrator | X | X | |
| Hot Add | X | X | |
| vShield Zones | X | X | |
| Fault Tolerance | X | X | |
| Storage APIs for Array Integration | X | X | |
| Storage APIs for Multipathing | X | X | |
| Storage vMotion | X | X | |
| Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS), Distributed Power Management (DPM) | X | X | |
| Storage I/O Control | X | ||
| Network I/O Control | X | ||
| Distributed Switch | X | ||
| Host Profiles | X | ||
| Auto Deploy | X | ||
| Storage DRS | X | ||
| Profile-Driven Storage | X | ||
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