1. VMware Infrastructure Alex Dementsov Tao Yang Clarkson University Feb 28, 2007

2. 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

3. 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 pc’s disk storage.

4. Glance at Vmware Infrastructure3 Windows-oriented system

5. 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

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

7. ESX Server Configuration Permission for install Guest os connect two general kinds of group and person

8. Guest OS Installation

9. ESX Server Features Bare-metal architecture CPU virtualization Virtualization for storage Virtualization for Networking Security

10. Networking

11. Network services Virtual machines VMkernel Service console

12. Storage Local Fibre Channel iSCSI (hardware initiated) iSCSI (software initiated) Network file system (NFS) Storage devices:

13. Security

14. VMware HA Failure management HA - High Availability

15. VMware DRS Workload distribution DRS - Distributed Resource Scheduler

16. VMware VMotion Live migration of VMs

17. Screenshots – NetWare 6.5

18. Screenshots – Solaris 10