VMware%20Infrastructure

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VMware Infrastructure

• Alex Dementsov
• Tao Yang

Clarkson University Feb 28, 2007
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Vmware Infrastructure 3

• ESX server
• Platform for virtualizing servers,storage and
  networking
• VMFS
• High-performance cluster file system for storage
  virtualizatio
• Virtual SMP
• Multi-processor support for virtual machines
• VirtualCenter Server
• Centralized management automation and
  optimization for IT infrastructure
• High Availability (HA)
• Cost effective high availability for virtual
  machines
• DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler )
• Dynamic balancing and allocation of resources
  for virtual machines
• VMotion
• Live migration of virtual machines without
  service interruption
• Consolidated Backup
• Centralized backup software for virtual machines

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Before installation

• Hardware Requirement
• 1 At least two processors of one of the
  following types
• 1500MHz Intel Xeon and later, or AMD
  Opteron (32-bit mode)
• 1500MHz Intel Viiv or AMD A64 x2
  dual-core processors
• 2 1GB RAM minimum
• 3 One or more Ethernet controllers
• 4 A SCSI disk, Fibre Channel LUN, or RAID
  LUN with unpartitioned space
• Do not support IDE and SATA disk, though Esx
  can install on PC, you can get the support from
  the pcs disk storage.

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Glance at Vmware Infrastructure3

• Windows-oriented system

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Installation

• Install on the raw hardware
• rooted from the IDE device such as
• cd- rom, IDE hard disk.
• graphic interface /text interface
• if (graphic interface)
• like windows os

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Client Installation

• Required windows operation system,
• .NET framework 1.1, and for more reliability
  install the service pack 1 for .NET framework 1.1

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ESX Server Configuration

• Permission for install Guest os
• connect
• two general kinds of group and person

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Guest OS Installation
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ESX Server Features

• Bare-metal architecture
• CPU virtualization
• Virtualization for storage
• Virtualization for Networking
• Security

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Networking
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Network services

• Virtual machines
• VMkernel
• Service console

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Storage
Storage devices

• Local
• Fibre Channel
• iSCSI (hardware initiated)
• iSCSI (software initiated)
• Network file system (NFS)

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Security
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VMware HA

• Failure management

HA - High Availability
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VMware DRS

• Workload distribution

DRS - Distributed Resource Scheduler
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VMware VMotion

• Live migration of VMs

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Screenshots NetWare 6.5
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Screenshots Solaris 10