Recently begun to support virtualized, private cloud environment with customers more for vmware vsphere, specifically cramming at the various differences vmware vsphere.
The first is the difference vSphere, ESXi and vCenter are.
ESXi, vSphere client and vCeneter all vSphere components. ESXi is vSphere is the most important component. ESXi is the virtualization services. All virtual machines are running on ESXi service above. To install, manage and access these virtual machine, you need additional vSphere suite, which is the vSphere client or vCenter. vSphere client allows administrators to access and manage service ESXi virtual machine. vSphere client is installed on the client (that is, the administrator of the notebook) above. ESXi vSphere client is used to connect servers and management tasks. So what is vCenter? Why is it virtual? Next attempt in the absence of vCenter server and vSphere client only to clone existing virtual machine.
vCenter server and vSphere client like, but it is more powerful and functional. vCenter server is installed in the Window server or Linux server inside. VMware vCenter server is a centralized management application. You can use it to manage all of ESXi virtual machines and physical machines. vSphere client can be managed by accessing the server EXSi vCenter Server. vCenter server is an enterprise-class product, many enterprise-class features, such as vMotion, VMware High Availability, VMware Update Manager and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). You can easily by vCenter server cloning existing virtual machine. So, vCenter is also an important part of vSphere suite. You need to purchase a separate license vCenter.
The figure shows a typical virtualization deployments.
vmware vsphere version.
vmware is divided into Basic, Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus Gold version, you can refer https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere.html,https://www.vmware.com/content/ dam / digitalmarketing / vmware / en / pdf / vsphere / vmw-flyr-comparevsphereeditions-uslet.pdf.
vmware vsphere OEM。
In addition to the standard version of the division, vsphere because automated remote management needs, but also, and major hardware vendors to provide OEM version, such as Cisco, Dell, HPE (like software for the CPU architecture custom), as their core, but it has since defined extensions, reference may https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/05/apply-latest-vmware-esxi-security-patches-oem-custom-images-visualize-differences.html.
vmware ESXi installation.
Generally, VMware is installed as the underlying operating system, unlike vmware workstation. But if learning needs, you can also download the generic version, and then install vmware workstation inside, because ESXi itself is a Linux operating system.