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VMware Infrastructure Architecture Overview
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Table of Contents
Physical Topology of the VMware Infrastructure Data Center 4
Virtual Data Center Architecture 5
Hosts, Clusters and Resource Pools 6
VMware VMotion, VMware DRS and VMware HA 7
Networking Architecture 8
Storage Architecture 9
VMware Consolidated Backup 10
ESX Server External Interfacing Components 10
VirtualCenter Management Server Architecture 11
Conclusion 13
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x86 server
4 GHz
16 GB RAM
Cluster
12 GHz
48 GB RAM
x86 server
4 GHz
16 GB RAM
x86 server
4 GHz
16 GB RAM
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8 GHz
32 GB RAM
4 GHz
16 GB RAM
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