vCenter Server

module 2

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 Module Lessons

 Overview of vCenter Server architecture

 Configuring vCenter Server Appliance

 Backup and restore vCenter Server

 Permissions and role (role) in vCenter

Server

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 Overview of vCenter Server
architecture
VMware VCenter Server is a data center management server
application developed by VMware Inc. to monitor virtualized
environments.
VCenter Server provides centralized management and operation,
resource provisioning and performance evaluation of virtual machines
residing on a distributed virtual data center. VMware vCenter Server is
designed primarily for VSphere, VMware’s platform for building
virtualized cloud infrastructures.

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Services Installed with vCenter Server:
o PostgreSQL
o vSphere Web Client
o vSphere ESXi Dump Collector: The vSphere ESXi Dump Collector
collects memory dumps over the network.
o VMware vSphere Syslog Collector: Network logging and combining
of logs from multiple hosts
o VMware Syslog Service: Provides a unified architecture for system
logging, network logging and collecting logs from hosts.
o vSphere Auto Deploy: The vCenter Server support tool that can
provision hundreds of physical hosts with ESXi software. You can
specify the image to deploy and the hosts to provision with the
image.

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vCenter High Availability (vCHA)
The vCenter High Availability architecture uses a three-node
cluster to provide availability against multiple types of hardware
and software failures.

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vCenter High Availability components
A vCenter HA cluster consists of one Active vCenter Server
node that serves client requests.
One Passive node to take the role of Active node in the event
of active vCenter Server node failure.
One quorum node called the Witness node to solve the classic
split-brain problem due to network failures within distributed
systems maintaining replicated data.
vCenter Server availability is assured as long as there are two
nodes running inside a cluster. However, a cluster is
considered to be running in a degraded state if there are only
two nodes in it. A subsequent failure in a degraded cluster
means vCenter services are no longer available.

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 Module Lessons

 Overview of vCenter Server architecture

 Configuring vCenter Server Appliance

 Backup and restore vCenter Server

 Permissions and role (role) in vCenter

Server

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Triển khai cấu hình vCenter Server Appliance

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 Module Lessons

 Overview of vCenter Server architecture

 Configuring vCenter Server Appliance

 Backup and restore vCenter Server

 Permissions and role (role) in vCenter

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 Module Lessons
 Overview of vCenter Server architecture

 Configuring vCenter Server Appliance

 Backup and restore vCenter Server

 Permissions and role (role) in vCenter

Server

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Permissions and role in vCenter
Server
Concepts
Permissions: Each object in the vCenter Server object
hierarchy has associated permissions.
Users and Groups: On vCenter Server systems, you can
assign privileges only to authenticated users or groups of
authenticated users.
Privileges: Privileges are fine-grained access controls. You can
group those privileges into roles, that you can then map to
users or groups.
Roles: Roles are sets of privileges. Roles allow you to assign
permissions on an object based on a typical set of tasks that
users perform. Default roles, such as Administrator, are
predefined on vCenter Server and cannot be changed.

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vSphere Permissions

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Kiểm soát quyền và vai trò trong vCenter Server

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Quản lý vCenter Server Inventory Objects và Licenses

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