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Virtual Machine Management

Module 3

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VMware vSphere:What’s New

Course Introduction

Introducing vSphere 5.0

Virtual Machine Management

Network Management

Storage Management

Scalability

High Availability

New Alternatives for Deploying vSphere

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Importance

VMware vSphere® 5.0 includes many features that expand the capabilities available to a virtual machine and the services and applications that it supports.

Understanding the new features gives the user more options on how virtual machines can be used in the datacenter.

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Learner Objectives

After this module, you should be able to do the following:

Describe new virtual machine capabilities.

Explain virtual machine snapshot consolidation.

Describe the vCenter Solutions Manager.

Use the vSphere Web Client.

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New Virtual Machine Capabilities

32 vCPUs per VM

1TB RAM per VMVirtual machine

scalabilityRicher desktop

experience

Broader device coverage

Othernew features

3-D graphics

HD audio

USB 3.0 devices

Smart-card readers

UI for multicore vCPUs

VMDirectPath I/O version 2

E1000e network adapter

Client-connected USB devices

Extended VMware® Tools compatibility

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Snapshot Consolidation

What is snapshot consolidation?

Method used to commit a chain of snapshots to the original virtual machine when the Snapshot Manager window does not match the snapshot status of the virtual machine

Snapshot consolidation is intended to resolve known issues with snapshot management:

The snapshot descriptor file is committed correctly, but the Snapshot Manager window incorrectly shows that all the snapshots are deleted.

The snapshot files (-delta.vmdk) are still part of the virtual machine.

Snapshot files continue to expand until the virtual machine runs out of datastore space.

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Discovering When to Consolidate

The Snapshot Manager shows no snapshots. But a warning on the Summary tab of the virtual machine notifies the user that a consolidation is required.

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Performing Snapshot Consolidation

Select Consolidate to reconcile snapshots.

Any snapshots found are committed to the virtual machine.

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What Is the vCenter Solutions Manager?

The Solutions Manager is a central point from which to monitor and manage installed solutions.

A solution is an extension that adds functionality to VMware vCenter Server™.

Examples:

• An extension to manage enterprise security

• An extension to manage backup and recovery

• An extension to manage and configure the cloud environment

Can be developed by VMware and VMware third-party vendors

Packaged in Open Virtualization Format

Why use the Solutions Manager?

As more are created for vCenter Server, a central point of control becomes very important for the administrator to be able to monitor and manage each solution.

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Solutions Manager Interface

Select Home > Administration > vCenter Solutions Manager.

Select a solution and get detailed information about each solution.

Get a quick overview of the health of the solutions.

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What Is the vSphere Web Client?

The vSphere Web Client offers the following:

An alternative to using the VMware vSphere® Client™

A Web-based interface to vCenter Server or a VMware ESXi™ host

Supports Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers on multiple operation system platforms (Linux, Windows)

An interface that is customizable by the user

Advanced search functionality available in vSphere 5.0

The vSphere Web Client includes extensible functionality.

Partners and users can add features and capabilities.

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vSphere Web Client Functionality

The vSphere Web Client can be used for:

Managing virtual machines

• Creating virtual machines

• Performing virtual machine operations

• Configuring virtual machine resources

• Viewing all vSphere objects

Performing basic health monitoring

Supplying a remote console for a virtual machine

Managing vSphere vApps through the Web

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Installing the vSphere Web Client

vSphere Web Client software is included in vCenter Server software.

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Configuring the vSphere Web Client

By default, no vCenter Server instances are registered.

Select Start > Programs > VMware > VMware vSphere Web Client > vSphere Administration Application.

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Registering vCenter Server

Click the Register vCenter Server link.

Enter the following information:

vCenter Server instance fully qualified domain name

vCenter Server administrator and password

vSphere Web Client server name

Click Register.

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Starting the vSphere Web Client

Log in with your vCenter Server user credentials.

Select Start > Programs > VMware > VMware vSphere Web Client > vSphere Web Client.

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Viewing the vSphere Web Client

vSphere Web Client Home page

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Lab 2

In this lab, you will upgrade virtual machines to version 5.0 and configure access to vCenter Server from the Web.

1. Verify that the ESX 4.1 host remediation was successful.

2. Upgrade VMware Tools and the virtual machine hardware.

3. Install the vSphere Web Client.

4. Register a vCenter Server instance to the vSphere Web Client.

5. Use the vSphere Web Client to log in to vCenter Server.

6. (Optional) Use the vSphere Web Client to remotely log in to vCenter Server.

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Review of Learner Objectives

You should be able to do the following:

Describe new virtual machine capabilities.

Explain virtual machine snapshot consolidation.

Describe the Solutions Manager.

Use the vSphere Web Client.

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Key Points

New virtual machine capabilities are available to users.

Snapshot consolidation provides a way to deal with snapshots that have not been reconciled correctly from the Snapshot Manager window.

The vSphere Web Client provides a means of managing portions of the virtual environment without the vSphere Client.

Questions?