vCenter Server: physical or virtual? - vInfrastructure Blog

This post is also available in: Italian vCenter Server vDesign: Physical vs Virtual Machine Over the last years there have been some controversy over this topic: should vCenter Server be a physical or a virtual machine? There is a best solution or a best practice? The most important aspect is that both solutions are supported by VMware. And the virtual solution is fully supported from VI 3.x, for more info see also the official paper: Running VirtualCenter in a Virtual Machine. Note that in both cases minimum required must be guaranteed. vCenter Server dependency In order to understand how is is possible to have a vCenter Server inside the virtual environment, it’s also very important understand with VMware service require a working vCenter Server: In addition, you will also need to know where your DB server is located, cause if you loose DB connection, the vCenter Server service will stop! Physical solution: pro and cons Pro Cons Virtual solution: pro and cons vCenter Performance as a VM

Difference between vSphere, ESXi and vCenter There is a lot of buzz of VMware virtualization solution these days. No doubt that VMware is the number one virtualization solution provider in the industry. People who are new to VMware’s virtualization platform often get confused while learning VMware vSphere and its components. So today I will be explaining all about vSphere and its components. Folks face difficulty to know about major components of vSphere. VMware Inc. is a software company that develops many suites of software products specially for providing various virtualization solutions. vSphere is a software suite that comes under data center product. vSphere is like Microsoft Office suite which has many softwares like MS Office, MS Excel, MS Access and so on. ESXi, vSphere client and vCenter are components of vSphere. vCenter server is similar to vSphere client but it’s a server with more power. vCenter server is installed on Windows Server or Linux Server. The following two tabs change content below.

Get to Know the vCenter Server Appliance -- Virtualization Review How To Guy Get to Know the vCenter Server Appliance VMware will soon be discontinuing the vSphere Client for Windows application, formerly known as the VMware Infrastructure Client (VI Client). It's likely to occur with the next major vSphere release. To use the vSphere Web Client, you can do a direct install. No need to pay for a Windows OS license for vCenter Server No need to upgrade the Windows OS or maintain third-party tools on the server running vCenter Super-fast deployment, because there's no Windows OS or vCenter application to install It's the vCenter of the future! Honestly, using the vCSA is the fastest and easiest way to get up and running with the vSphere Web Client and start testing new features available in the latest vSphere edition. To deploy the vCSA, download it from the same VMware.com page where you download ESXi and other vSphere components. Once deployed, if you open the vCSA text-based console, you'll need to take four steps to get the vCSA up and running.

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