vCenter Server is a core component of the infrastructure that allows a centralized administration of hosts and VM for your environment. To ensure the maximum efficiency of the infrastructure, you need to consider how to administer VMs and their resource demands.
For optimal organization of the inventory, you need to create some virtual objects in vCenter Server to define a logical structure. The organization of the inventory requires some tasks to be performed, as follows:
- Create data centers
- Add hosts to the data centers
- Build a logical infrastructure using folders
- Set up networking (vSS and vDS)
- Configure storage system (datastore and datastore cluster)
- Create clusters (resource consolidation, vSphere HA, and vSphere DRS)
- Create a resource pool (flexible management of resources)
In vCenter Server, there are four main views available...
