VMware Infrastructure

Alex Dementsov

Tao Yang

Clarkson UniversityFeb 28, 2007

Vmware Infrastructure 3 ESX server

Platform for virtualizing servers,storage and networking

VMFSHigh-performance cluster file system for storage virtualizatio

Virtual SMPMulti-processor support for virtual machines

VirtualCenter ServerCentralized 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

VMotionLive migration of virtual machines without service interruption

Consolidated BackupCentralized backup software for virtual machines

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.

Glance at Vmware Infrastructure3

Windows-oriented system

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

Client Installation

Required windows operation system, .NET framework 1.1, and for more

reliability install the service pack 1 for .NET framework 1.1

ESX Server Configuration

Permission for install Guest os connect

two general kinds of group and person

Guest OS Installation

ESX Server Features

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

Networking

Network services

Virtual machines VMkernel Service console

Storage

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

Storage devices:

Security

VMware HA

Failure management

HA - High Availability

VMware DRS

Workload distribution

DRS - Distributed Resource Scheduler

VMware VMotion

Live migration of VMs

Screenshots – NetWare 6.5

Screenshots – Solaris 10