vCenter4 Introduction Videos
The vCenter server is a central management server from Vmware for ESX. With vCenter multiple ESX host servers along with their resources and vm guests can be managed from one location. vCenter also provides additional advanced options and configurations that can enhance the management and add redundancy to a multiply ESX host environment. Some features such as High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS), Vmotion, and Storage Vmotion require vCenter. vCenter 4 adds new features like vCenter Linked Mode for managing multiple vCenter servers, Host Profiles to drive consistency between ESX hosts, Vmware vApp which pools vm guests together that makeup an application, the Distributed Virtual Switch, centralized licensing so there’s no more separate license server, Fault tolerance (FT), better performance charts, Storage Vmotion is now built into the GUI, and much more.
These videos gives an overview of vCenter 4, walks through the user interface, and explains some of the main areas so that you can get to know the product. Hope you like the videos and that they give useful information. The videos can be downloaded as well for your offline viewing pleasure for here.
vCenter4 Introduction Part 1
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vCenter4 Introduction Part 2
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vCenter4 Introduction Part 3
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