Adding hosts to a VMware vCenter Server
VMware vCenter Server provides a centralized platform to manage your VMware vSphere environments. With vCenter Server, you can create clusters of hosts with High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). In this section, you will learn how to add hosts to a VMware vCenter Server.
Creating a data center
After deploying a new vCenter Server, you cannot add a host to a vCenter Server until you have created a data center. So we will start with creating a data center. To create a data center, you have to use the New-Datacenter cmdlet. This cmdlet has the following syntax:
New-Datacenter [-Location] <VIContainer> [-Name] <String>
[-Server <VIServer[]>] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm] [<CommonParameters>]
The -Location and -Name parameters are required.
When you create a data center, you have to specify a value for the location parameter. This location has to be a folder. You can create the data center in the root of...
