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