VMware vCenter Server

Slides are prepared from VMware official Study material

 Welcome!!
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Learning Outcomes
Understanding of:
 vCenter server Management
 Virtual Networking
 Virtual switch
 The concept of VLAN’s in virtual switch
 vCenter Server key functions

VMware’s vCenter product is the core product required to turn on the enterprise features.
This includes, but isn’t limited to the following

• Centralized management including Single Sign On (SSO) authentication

• Centralized permissions management
• Centralized logging of tasks events
• Resource management
• Central location to perform management and administrative tasks across ESXi hosts
• High Availability
• Distributed Resource Scheduling
• Fault Tolerance
• Centralized updating via the update manager
 Uplinks

• Virtual Switch traffic is uplinked on each ESXi host by the physical network
cards in the ESXi host that are bound to that vSwitch in Vmware
• The real physical interface on the ESXi host is mapped to a vmnic  in ESXi
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 Distributed Switch

• A VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VMware vDS) allows a

single virtual switch to connect multiple hosts in a cluster or multiple
clusters for centralized management of network configurations in a 
vSphere environment
Distributed Switch
Review Questions
 What are the key functions of vCenter Server
 How a physical NIC is linked up with virtual NIC
 How Standard virtual switch is different from distributed switch
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