VMware Vsphere 6.0 Installation Deployment overall deployment architecture

(i) Overall deployment architecture

This tutorial is intended to be used for learning purposes, to describe in detail the relationship between the installation deployment process and the components, starting with the simplest model, and the series of articles in chronological order, each introducing a component.

At the beginning, a model of all VMware components is deployed in accordance with a physical server, which is also to be close to the scenario where most beginners learn with limited hardware resources in the absence of a commercial organization, a lack of practical testing, and a production environment.

The initial deployment model is as follows:

Among them, the server for a Cisco C240 M3 rack Server, 2 e5-2660 cpu,96g memory, 6 300G hard disk to do RAID5.

All four NICs connected to the switch

Main components:

ESXi: The underlying virtualization layer, which is used to virtual a physical server into a resource pool, provides a management interface, and facilitates management of other management components, whose entity form is an ISO file, which is carved into bootable CD-ROM directly on the server bare metal

vsphere client: Software installed on Windows systems, which can be managed by entering the IP of the corresponding ESXi host after logging in, or by entering the IP of the vcenter server to manage the entire data center.

VCenter: Server-side software that centrally manages ESXi hosts, installed in Windows Server 2008R2 or above, and maintains information about the various functional components in the data center through SQL 2008R2 or later versions of the database (other databases also have version requirements). There are also versions installed in the Linux environment.

vsphere Web client: Through the browser input vcenter server's IP, you can enter the entire virtualized data center management interface, after vsphere5.0, VMware is gradually weakening the role of vsphere client, Many advanced features, such as enhanced vmotion, are now implemented only in the Web client.

VMware Vsphere 6.0 Installation Deployment overall deployment architecture