Description

In the majority of today’s information systems, the client-server architecture is king. Information systems used to exist in a flat, peer-to-peer model – user accounts were required on every system that resource access was needed, and significant administrative overhead was needed simply to make things work.
Today, as the size of a virtual infrastructure grows, the ability to manage the infrastructure from a central location becomes increasingly significant. The client-server architecture has the ability to centralize management of resources and to provide end users and client systems with access to those resources in a simplified manner.
vCenter Server is a Windows-based application that serves as a centralized management tool for ESXi hosts and their respective VMs. vCenter Server acts as a proxy that performs tasks on the individual ESXi hosts that have been added as members of a vCenter Server installation. This course will focus on the installation and configuration of vCenter Server.