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VMware Stage Manager User’s Guide

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VMware VirtualCenter Serverisacontrolpointforthedatacenterandprovides

datacenterservicessuchasaccesscontrol,performancemonitoring,andconfiguration.

VirtualCenteralsoprovidesadvancedVMware Infrastructurecapabilitiesdescribedin

“LeveragingVMware InfrastructureCapabilities”onpage 19.ESXServerhosts

continuetofunctioneveniftheVirtualCenterServerbecomesunreachable(for

example,thenetworkconnection

issevered).

Using Clusters, Hosts, Resource Pools, and Datastores

InVirtualCenter Server,youcanview,configure,andmanagethesekeyelements:

 Computingandmemoryresourcescalledhosts,clusters,andresourcepools

 Storageresourcescalleddatastores

 Networks

 Virtualmachines

SeeVMware Infrastructure3documentationat

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vi_pages/vi_pubs_35.html.

InStage Manager,youcanassignresourcepoolstoindividualstagesinservicesto

partitionavailableCPUandmemoryresources.Hosts,clusters,andresourcepools

provideflexiblewaystoorganizetheaggregatedcomputingandmemoryresourcesin

thevirtualenvironmentandlinkthemback

totheunderlyingphysicalresources.

Reviewthesedefinitions:

 Ahostrepresentstheaggregatecomputingandmemoryresourcesofaphysical

x86server.

 Aclusteractsandcanbemanagedmuchlikeahost.Itrepresentstheaggregate

computingandmemoryresourcesofagroupofphysicalx86serverssharingthe

samenetworkandstoragearrays.

 Resourcepoolsarepartitionsofcomputingandmemoryresourcesfromasingle

hostoracluster.WithVMware Distributed Resource Scheduler,thesepoolscanbe

hierarchicalandnested.

Inadditiontoassigningresourcepoolstoastage,useStage Managertomonitor

resourceconsumptionattheserviceandstagelevel.

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