Hello Vmware guru's,
I am New to the Virtualization world, & want to learn as much as I can, I have little knowledge about Virtualization.
I want to build the conceptual design of Virtualization with four of my experimental Servers, but would like to know what tools do I required, after little research, I got VMware vSphere Hypervisor which can configure the Virtual environment for one server, but that is not what i want,
here is a concept,
Physical Servers are all connected throw out gigabit LAN.
I want all of them to be configured as One Virtual Server or at least they can share the resources (with of course limitations of physics)
as shown below,
So that, I can create as many Virtual Servers as many i want and distribute the resources among them.
You'll want to look into vCenter: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-server/overview.html. You're on the right track with the hypervisor, but to create your pooled resources you need vCenter to create a cluster. You'll have more specific questions once you read about vCenter, and that will help people provide the information you're looking for.
mike
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Thanks, so vCenter basically create the Clusters, but unfortunatelly there's no trial version of vCenter server, is there any alternative to it, I think VMware is the only company which provide complete Virtualization solution from A to Z.
If you download and install vCenter without a license key, it should run for 60 days and give you access to all of the features.
mike
Thanks, I didn't know that.
Well in this case the major thing we are missing here is the Storage, if you need vMotion, HA, DRS features we might also need shared storage such as SAN/NAS.
isn't datacenter is the feature of vCenter or its separate feature ? like you mention "vMotion, HA, DRS" ?
Definetely DataCenter is a part of vCenter, you will not be able to create a datacenter unless you have vCenter. Creation of Datacenter is essential for creating a cluster and adding ESX hosts to the cluster. And all this can happen only if vCenter is available. Also the obvious reason to create a cluster is to acheive the major features like vmotion, HA, DRS. Storing the VMs on a local storage of the host cannot allow you in acheiving these.