Dell External OEMR 2950, VMware Infrastructure 3.0.2 Deployment Manual
VMware® Infrastructure 3.0.2
Update 1 for Dell™ PowerEdge™
Systems
Deployment Guide
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Contents
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Introduction
What’s New?
Supported New Hardware
Supported New Software
Processors
Licensing
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Activation Code and License Key
Downloading the Software
Optional Media
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Dell-Supported Configurations
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Dell-Supported ESX Server Configurations
Dell-Supported VirtualCenter Configurations
VMware Infrastructure Architecture
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Installing ESX Server and VirtualCenter
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Installing VirtualCenter
Installing ESX Server
Tips for Configuring VMotion
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Installing ESX Server on PowerEdge
Blade Servers
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Fibre Channel Environment Setup With the
ESX Server Software
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Installing and Using Dell OpenManage . . . . . . . . . 20
Additional Resources
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Product Documentation Resources
Technical Support Resources
Discussion Forums
Knowledge Base
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4 Contents
Overview
This document is a companion guide to the VMware® Infrastructure 3.0.2
guides and provides additional information for supporting the Dell™
PowerEdge™ systems. The document covers the following:
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Introduction
VMware VirtualCenter products and technologies.
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What’s New
and updated software in this release.
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Licensing
— provides a brief overview of the VMware ESX Server and
— provides information about additional supported hardware
— provides a list of licensing options available to customers.
Dell-Supported Configurations
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supported ESX Server and VirtualCenter configurations.
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Installing ESX Server and VirtualCenter
installing the ESX Server software and VirtualCenter.
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Installing Dell OpenManage™
Dell OpenManage.
Additional Resources
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— provides references to additional documentation.
— provides a list of qualified and
— provides guidelines for
— provides references to install and use
Introduction
This document helps you to deploy VMware Infrastructure 3.0.2 on
PowerEdge systems and provides information specific to Dell servers and
storage systems, recommended configurations, best practices, and additional
resources. VMware Infrastructure consists of the ESX Server software
and VirtualCenter.
ESX Server allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on a
single physical server. These operating systems, referred to as virtual machines,
can be created and managed faster than possible with conventional systems,
since the virtual machines do not interact directly with the physical hardware.
Each of these virtual machines run in a resource-isolated, secure environment
and can include Microsoft
Sun Solaris operating systems with their associated applications.
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Windows®, Linux, Novell® NetWare®, and
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Figure 1-1. VMware ESX Server Architecture
VirtualCenter is a management application that monitors and manages
virtual machines and ESX Server hosts. With VirtualCenter, users can create,
start, stop, and migrate virtual machines across the entire physical data
center. Advanced features such as VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling
(DRS) and VMware High Availability are available with VirtualCenter 2.0.x.
What’s New?
This release includes the new generation of VMware Infrastructure for the
new PowerEdge systems and storage systems.
Supported New Hardware
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Servers:
PowerEdge R900
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Storage Systems:
storage only, and PowerVault MD1000
Supported New Software
• Dell OpenManage 5.3
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PowerEdge 1950-III, PowerEdge 2950-III, PowerEdge 2900-III,
Dell PowerVault™ NX1950 for Internet SCSI (iSCSI)
Processors
• AMD™ Opteron™ 2300 and 8300 processors
•Intel
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Xeon® 5400 and 7300 processors
Licensing
VMware Infrastructure 3.0.2 is available in three editions: Starter Edition,
Standard Edition, and Enterprise Edition. Standard and Enterprise Editions
are available through the Dell Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
channel and also through Dell Software and Peripherals (S&P). Starter
Edition is available only through S&P. Table 1-1 describes the features
available in these editions.
Table 1-1. Licensing Features
Features VMware
Infrastructure—
Starter
ESX Server X X X
VirtualCenter Agent X X X
SAN Connectivity X X
Virtual SMP™ (symmetric
multiprocessing)
VMotion™ X
DRS X
High Availability X
Consolidated Backup X
Physical CPU Licensing Not Applicable 2 CPU or 4 CPU 2 CPU or 4 CPU
Dell Offering S&P OEM, S&P OEM, S&P
Software Subscription Not Applicable 1 to 3 years 1 to 3 years
VMware
Infrastructure—
Standard
XX
VMware
Infrastructure—
Enterprise
NOTE: ESX Server can have a maximum of 8 GB RAM in the Starter Edition.
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