ESX Server Overview

What is ESX? & Feature

1. ESX is flagship program of vmware that can run multiple Operating system (Virtual Machine) at same time with no partitioning and no rebooting.
2. Allow you create multiple virtual Network
3. Run directly on Hardware
4. Offer remote GUI and web console for centralize management.

Feature:

1. Bare Metal: highest performance
2. Supppt iscsi and Fiber SAN
3. VMFS Virtual Disk that provide high performance, LVM, boot form SAN, Vmotion, VMHA, P2V, DRS, RAW Device Mapping
4. VLAN, Vswitches, and VMNICs
5. Memory page sharing, & memory ballooning.
6. 4 way Virtual SMP, UP 16 GB RAM each Virtual machine.
7. Support 32 Logical CPU and 64 GB RAM & 128 Virtual machine per server

What is the main use of vmware ESX server?

• To consolidate server
• To consolidate Desktop
• Make good utilization of Hardware.
• Enhance IT Staff productivity
• Testing and Development
• Disaster Recovery

What is VMkernel?
An operating system that works at the virtualization layer & It manages the physical Resources of the server- memory, Storage and Network and also the Heart of Vmware ESX and its power