Owner's Manual

Contents 3
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
VMware License Offerings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
ESX Architecture Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
vSphere 4 Architecture Overview
. . . . . . . . . . 7
Supported Configurations
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Important Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Supported vSphere 4
Configuration Solutions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuring ESX 4 Using
Dell Fibre Channel SAN
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Fibre Channel Environment
Setup With ESX
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring vSphere 4 Using iSCSI SAN . . . . . . 32
Setting up iSCSI Environment With ESX
. . . . . . 33
Deploying ESX and vCenter
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Guidelines for Deploying ESX
. . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing ESX
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Disk Partitioning for ESX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Post Installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Tips for Configuring VMotion
. . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Installing vCenter Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Related Information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36