Credits and salutes

George Boole, Alan Turing, Charles

Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Blaise Pascal,
Tim Berners lee [info.cern.ch] , Steve
Jobs [NeXT],Bill gates and many
more who invented and contributed
to the science of computing.

Cloud Computing and paradigms

-Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg and
Andrzej (Wiley Publications)

Must-Haves For Cloud Computing - 7

Checkpoints For Success - (Paul
Davey)

If you can’t explain IT simply, http://www.sei.cmu.edu

you don’t understand IT well enough -Albert Einstein
 Topics
Cloud computing-new IT buzzword
Cloud computing- definition
Evolution of Cloud Computing
Type of clouds
Enterprise computing-Services
– IaaS, SaaS, PaaS.DBaaS
Virtualization,VMM Platforms,Virtual Appliances and OVF
VMWARE ESX. vSphere client and VMWARE web console
 Cloud computing -Is it a new IT buzzword?

Cloud computing- every enterprise and person, want to

explain this concept by their own benefits.

But, if give a neutral definition to it, begin it here.

 Cloud computing- trying to define


It denotes a model on which a computing infrastructure is viewed as a
“cloud,” from which businesses and individuals access applications
from anywhere in the world on demand.


The main principle behind this model is offering computing, storage,
and software “as a service.”

“It is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services
over the internet”
Cloud computing & technology
 Evolution of Cloud Computing


1960’S: John McCarthy opined that computation may someday be organized
as a public utility.

1966: Douglas Parkhill wrote a book The challenge of computer utility. He
explored characteristics of modern day cloud computing.

1990’s: Telephony by telecommunications companies enabled the use of
virtual private network services with comparable quality of services at a lower
cost. The cloud symbol was used to show the demarcation point between
responsibilities of provided users.

2006: The Amazon web service was introduced on a utility computing basis.

2008: Eucalyptus became the first open source platform for deploying private
clouds. OpenNebula became the first open source software for deploying
private and hybrid clouds .
 Type of clouds

Public , Private , community and
hybrid
 Private clouds

The aim of a Private Cloud is to provide local cloud users and
administrators with a flexible and agile private infrastructure to run
virtualized service workloads within the administrative domain.

A private cloud architecture leverages the power of virtualization to let you
flexibly deploy applications across a pool of resources.

By replacing fixed I/O cards with virtual I/O resources, IT managers can
significantly enhance data center agility. Connectivity can be provisioned in
real-time. And because connectivity is consolidated, the infrastructure
becomes dramatically simpler: Hundreds of cables are replaced by dozens,
most I/O adapter cards are eliminated,and overall connectivity costs drop by
up to 50%.

ENTERPRISE
PRIVATE
Traditional three-tier data center architecture.
Efficient virtualized data center architecture with virtual I/O.
 Hybrid cloud

Hybrid Cloud: Hybrid describes mufti-connected private
clouds, or a combination of private and public.

In this scenario, a company enabled their private cloud
environment to burst on demand into a public cloud service
 Security

Security is often cited as the greatest perceived barrier to public
cloud computing, although public cloud vendors and their
technology partners are addressing this successfully with offerings
like Cloud VPN

Whereas enterprises may be familiar with managing their own data
security, cloud computing solutions may require joint management,
and the following aspects should be considered:

Ask the cloud provider for a list of people with privileged access to your data

Query if there have there been any security breaches with the cloud provider in the past, and
if so, what the nature of these were

Request security auditing be carried out on data access and request a copy of these reports

Consider the use of data encryption, query if it is available and who would have the ability to
decrypt it

Confirm if there is any data which cannot be maintained by a 3rd party provider for security
and compliance reasons even if it is encrypted

Discuss operating procedures should a security breach occur
 SLA/OLA-Cloud Provider to agree

The outsourcing of data, platforms or applications, either in
part or full, should always contain agreed and documented
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) as well as Operational
Level Agreements (OLAs)

SLAs for planned and unplanned downtime

Cloud provider to notify planned downtime, and mechanisms to accept or defer

Contractual penalties for any unplanned downtime suffered outside of the agreed SLA

Events which the cloud provider has no control over. For example, natural disasters at
the cloud provider’s data centre

OLAs which record engagement details between

the cloud provider support teams including contact details during business and non
business hours

Definition of individual support tiers contained within OLAs, including individual
responsibilities for service, process and delivery time frames

Service Provider be able to offer SLAs based on application and user requirements.
These may include:
− Application response time
− Application availability
− Issue resolution
 Enterprise cloud computing


IaaS Infrastructure-as–a- Service

SaaS Software-as–b- Service

PaaS Platform-as–a- Service
 IaaS

IaaS : “Infrastructure as a Service” is the delivery of
computer infrastructure (typically a platform virtualization
environment) as a service.

These ‘virtual infrastructure stacks’ are an example of the
“everything–as-a-service” trend and shares many of the
common characteristics. Rather than purchasing servers,
software, data center space or network equipment, clients
instead purchase resources as a fully outsourced service

The service is typically billed on a utility computing basis
and amount of resources consumed

Examples include Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and GoGrid.
IaaS
 IaaS-Few vendors and their IaaS
offerings
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud The cloud computing platform pioneer,
Web (EC2), Elastic MapReduce, Amazon offers auto scaling, cloud
Services Virtual Private Cloud, etc. monitoring, and load balancing features
as part of its portfolio.

Netmagic Netmagic Netmagic runs from datacenters in

Solutions Mumbai, Chennai, and Bangalore, and a
virtual data center in the United States.

Rackspace Cloud servers, cloud files, focuses primarily on enterprise-level

cloud sites, etc. hosting services.

Reliance Reliance Internet Data RIDC supports both traditional hosting

Communic Center and cloud services, with data centers in
ations Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and
Chennai. The cloud services offered by
RIDC include IaaS and SaaS

TCS InstaCompute InstaCompute data centers are located in

Hyderabad and Singapore, with
operations in both countries.
 SaaS

SaaS: “Software as a Service” is a model of software
deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to
customers for use as a service on demand.

SaaS software vendors may host the application on their
own web servers and deliver it over the Internet or
download the application to the consumer device, disabling it
after use or after the on-demand contract expires.

The on demand function may be handled internally to share
licenses within a firm or by a thirdparty application service
provider (ASP) sharing licenses between firms.

Examples include Salesforce. com, Facebook, Google
Analytics, or any webmail application.
SaaS
 SaaS

SalesForce CRM
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
Google Apps for Education
D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Pictures\Google-apps.JP

− Google Mail (Gmail)

− Google Calendar
− Google Drive
− Google Docs
− Google Groups
− Google Sites
 PaaS

PaaS : “Platform as a service” is the delivery of a computing
platform and solution stack as a service.

It facilitates deployment of applications without the cost and
complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and
software layers. This provides all of the facilities required to support
the complete life-cycle to build and deliver web applications and
services entirely available from the Internet, with no software
downloads or installation for developers, IT managers or end users.

It’s also known as cloudware. PaaS could be the new acronym that
defines a web-oriented model where more than just specific vertical
services are delivered as SaaS

(e.g. CRM, ERP, etc). Examples include Google AppEngine,
Salesforce.com’s Force.com and Microsoft Azure.
PaaS
 PaaS
Google AppEngine - (PaaS)Now support python
D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Pictures\Googl

Coherence - Oracle Coherence Data Grid for EC2 and other cloud
platforms
Force.com - Salesforce.com's application development platform
(PaaS)
GigaSpaces - middleware for the cloud, "cloudware"  
Heroku - Ruby on Rails in their Cloud  
Qrimp - An AJAX based PaaS 
RightScale - RightScale provides a platform and expertise that enable
companies to create scalable web applications running on Amazon’s
Web Services that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less
PaaS
PaaS
 Cloud Database- DBaaS
Database as a Service (DBaaS) is an architectural and operational
approach enabling IT providers to deliver database functionality as a
service to one or more consumers. Database as a Service
architectures support the following necessary capabilities:
– Consumer-based provisioning and management of database
instances using on-demand,self-service mechanisms;
– Automated monitoring of and compliance with provider-
defined service definitions, attributes and quality of service
levels;
– Fine-grained metering of database usage enabling show-back
reporting or charge-back functionality for each individual
consumer
 Cloud Database- DBaaS
Providers: Amazon RDS , Apache Cassandra , xeround , Vfabric
etc
DBaaS
VIRTUALIZATION
 What virtualization can do
Today’s x86 computer hardware was designed to run a
single operating system and a single application,
leaving most machines vastly underutilized.
Virtualization lets you run multiple virtual machines on a
single physical machine, with each virtual machine
sharing the resources of that one physical computer
across multiple environments.
Different virtual machines can run different operating
systems and multiple applications on the same physical
computer.
 Types of Virtualization
Hardware : acts like a real computer with an operating system

FULL : Almost complete simulation of the actual hardware e.g. Virtual Box, V-PC,
ESX, V-WORKSTATION , Hyper-V etc
PARA : presents a software interface to virtual machines that is similar but not
identical to that of the underlying hardware e.g XEN

Operating system : physical server to run multiple isolated operating system

instances, known as containers, Virtual Private Servers . E.g OpenVZ

Desktop : virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) , Citrix XenAPP

Software : Application virtualization e.g MS App-V

Memory : Virtual memory ,Oracle Coherence for grid

Storage : Create virtual storage pool

Database : the decoupling of the database layer

Network : creation of a virtualized network

Types of Virtualization
Xen Vs OpenVZ
 Virtualization
The mainframe has had Hardware Virtualization since at least the OS/360 days. This is only something new to the PC platform


Virtual Machine Monitor aka Hypervisor
Hypervisor as a microkernel, that is responsible for allocating RAM,
acting as an intermediary for IO, routing hardware interrupts, and
scheduling a fair share of CPU time to each virtual machine.
Both Intel/AMD have added special VT/SVM CPU extensions that
allow a special "privileged mode" of operation where a hypervisor can
run multiple Operating Systems in ring0 at the same time.
 VMM Platforms

VMWARE,Hyper-V, XCP - bare metal


Xen,l-guest (not matured yet)-
Paravirtualization-
Guest Os with a special kernel interacts with the hypervisor

KVM - Hardware assisted Virtualization[ a way of
improving the efficiency of hardware virtualization. It involves employing specially
designed CPUs and hardware components that help improve the performance of a
guest environment] Manager and Scheduling by existing kernel-
Needs Intel VT and AMD's AMD-V
Virtual Appliances(VA) and Open Virtualization
Format (OVF)

VA: An application combined with the environment needed
to run it (operating system, libraries, compilers, databases,
application containers, and so forth)

OVF : In order to facilitate packing and distribution of
software to be run on Vms several vendors, including
VMware, IBM, Citrix, Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, and HP, have
devised the Open Virtualization Format.
Virtualization with ESX/ESXi and vSphere client

© 2009 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

Agenda

 Enterprise Virtualization
 ESXi Convergence and ESXi Value Proposition
 Hardware Monitoring and System Management with ESXi
 Security and Deployment Options
 Command Line Interfaces
 Diagnostics and troubleshooting
 Answering common questions
 Resources and call to action

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 What is virtualization:
 Today’s x86 computer hardware was designed to run a single
operating system and a single application, leaving most
machines vastly underutilized. Virtualization lets you run
multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, with
each virtual machine sharing the resources of that one physical
computer across multiple environments.
 Different virtual machines can run different operating systems
and multiple applications on the same physical computer.

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Virtualization for Enterprise

Enterprise Virtualization brings flexibility and agility to the

business and that benefit needs to be understood within the
organization
 Why Virtualize?
• Run multiple operating systems on a single computer including Windows,
Linux and more. - VMWARE WS
• Reduce capital costs by increasing energy efficiency and requiring less
hardware.
• Ensure your enterprise applications perform with the highest availability and
performance.
• Build up business continuity through improved disaster recovery solutions
and deliver high availability throughout the datacenter
• Improve enterprise desktop management & control with faster deployment
of desktops and fewer support calls 
• Deliver IT services on-demand now and in the future, independent of
hardware, OS, application or infrastructure providers

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Before and after Virtualization

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 Virtualization
With
VMWARE

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 Relationships Between the Component Layers of VMware
vSphere

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VMware vSphere , VMware ESXi or ESX

VMware’s virtualization platform includes two components:

1. VMware vSphere 4.1 = virtualization software
• VMware vSphere 4.1 is available in several editions at different levels of functionality

• Customers can choose to install vSphere 4.1 using either the VMware ESXi or ESX

1. VMware vCenter Server 4.1 = virtualization management software

• VMware vCenter Server is necessary for advanced features such as VMotion, HA, etc.

VMware VMware VMware

vSphere vSphere vSphere

VMware vCenter
Server
VMware ESXi: 3rd Generation Hypervisor Architecture

VMware GSX VMware ESX

(VMware Server) architecture VMware ESXi architecture
• Installs “bare metal”
• Installs as an application • Installs “bare metal”
• Management tasks are moved
• Runs on a host OS • Relies on a Linux OS (Service
outside of the hypervisor
• Depends on OS for resource Console) for running partner
management agents and scripting

Service Console VMkernel

VMware ESX VMware ESXi VMkernel

2001 2003 2007

The ESXi architecture runs independently of a general purpose OS,

simplifying hypervisor management and improving security.
VMware ESXi and ESX hypervisor architectures comparison

VMware ESX VMware ESXi

Hypervisor Architecture Hypervisor Architecture

• Code base disk footprint: ~ 2GB • Code base disk footprint: <100 MB
• VMware agents run in Console OS • VMware agents ported to run directly on VMkernel
• Nearly all other management functionality provided by • Authorized 3rd party modules can also run in VMkernel to
agents running in the Console OS provide hw monitoring and drivers
• Users must log into Console OS in order to run • Other capabilities necessary for integration into an
commands for configuration and diagnostics enterprise datacenter are provided natively
• No other arbitrary code is allowed on the system
New Feature: Boot from SAN
Boot from SAN fully supported in ESXi 4.1

Requirements outlined in SAN Configuration Guide:

An iBFT (iSCSI Boot Firmware Table) NIC is required

iBFT communicates info about the iSCSI boot device to an OS

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Active Directory Integration

Provides authentication for all local services

 Remote access based on vSphere API, vSphere Client, PowerCLI,

etc

 Works with Active Directory users as well as groups

 Can grant varying levels of privileges, e.g. full administrative, read-

only or custom

 AD Group “ESX Admins” will be granted Administrator role

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Configuration of Active Directory in vSphere Client

1. Select “Active Directory”

2. Click “Join Domain”
3. Provide valid credentials
Active Directory Service
• Host will appear in the Active Directory “Computers” Object listing
• vSphere Client will indicate which domain is joined

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New Feature: Total Lockdown

Ability to totally control local access via vCenter Server

• Lockdown Mode (prevents all access except root on DCUI)
• DCUI – can additionally disable separately
• If both configured, then no local activity possible (except pull the plugs)
vCLI and PowerCLI: primary Scripting Interfaces

vSphere
vSphere
vCLI
vCLI Other
Otherutility
utility PowerCLI
PowerCLI Other
Other
scripts
scripts languages
languages

vSphere
vSphere
vSphere
vSphereSDK
SDK Client
Client

vSphere
vSphereWeb
WebService
ServiceAPI
API

vCLI and PowerCLI built on same API as vSphere Client

• Same authentication (e.g. Active Directory), roles and privileges, event logging
• API is secure, optimized for remote environments, firewall-friendly,
standards-based

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New Feature: Additional vCLI Configuration
Commands
Storage
• esxcli swiscsi session: Manage iSCSI sessions

• esxcli swiscsi nic: Manage iSCSI NICs

• esxcli swiscsi vmknic: List VMkernel NICs available for binding to particular iSCSI
adapter

• esxcli swiscsi vmnic: List available uplink adapters for use with a specified iSCSI
adapter

• esxcli vaai device: Display information about devices claimed by the VMware VAAI
(vStorage APIs for Array Integration) Filter Plugin.

• esxcli corestorage device: List devices or plugins. Used in conjunction with hardware
acceleration.

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Summary of ESXi Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

Initial Diagnostics Advanced Situations

DCUI: misconfigs / restart mgmt agents
Browser vCLI

vSphere
APIs

TSM: In-depth troubleshooting

API Direct
ESXi
Access Access
Diagnostic Commands for ESXi: vCLI

Familiar set of ‘esxcfg-*’ commands available in vCLI

• Names mapped to ‘vicfg-*’

• Also includes

• vmkfstools

• vmware-cmd

• resxtop

• esxcli: suite of diagnostic tools

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New Feature: Additional vCLI Troubleshooting
Commands
Network
• esxcli network: List active connections or list active ARP table entries.

Storage
• NFS statistics available in resxtop

VM
• esxcli vms vm kill: Forcibly stop VMs that do not respond to normal stop operations,
by using kill commands.
• # esxcli vms vm kill --type <kill_type> --world-id <ID>

• NOTE: designed to kill VMs in a reliable way (not dependent upon well-behaving
system)
• Eliminates one of the most common reasons for wanting to use TSM.

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DCUI-based Troubleshooting

 Menu item to restart all

management agents,
including
­ Hostd
­ Vpxa
 Menu item to reset
all configuration settings
­ Fix a misconfigured
vNetwork Distributed
Switch
­ Reset all configurations

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New Feature: Full Support of Tech Support Mode

Two ways to access

• Local: on console of host (press “Alt-F1”)
• Remote: via SSH
New Feature: Full Support of Tech Support Mode

• Toggle on DCUI
• Disable/Enable
• Both Local and Remote
• Optional timeout
automatically disables TSM
(local and remote)
• Running sessions are not
terminated.
• New sessions are rejected
• All commands issued in Tech
Support Mode are sent to
syslog

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Is ESXi at feature parity with ESX? Yes!!
Overview of the vSphere Installation and Setup Process

 System Requirements:
[http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility]
• AMD Opteron series or Intel XEON Series
• ESXi 5.0 will install and run only on servers with 64-bit x86 CPUs.
• ESXi 5.0 requires a host machine with at least two cores.
• ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions
• ESXi supports a broad range of x64 multicore processors
• ESXi requires a minimum of 2GB of physical RAM
• Intel VT-x or AMD RVI) must be enabled on x64 CPUs
• One or more Gigabit or 10Gb Ethernet controllers
• SATA/SCSI Disk controllers
Installation Steps:

• Set the BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM device or the USB flash drive
• On the Select a Disk page, select the drive on which to install ESXi and press Enter.
• Select the keyboard type for the host.
• Enter the root password for the host
• You can leave the password blank, but to secure the system from the first boot, enter
a password. You can
• change the password after installation in the direct console
• Press F11 to start the installation
• When the installation is complete, remove the installation CD, DVD, or USB flash drive
• Press Enter to reboot the host.
• Set the first boot device to be the drive on which you installed ESXi
• Install the vSphere Client to manage your ESXi host. License your host
Other modes of installation- Just for information

 Install ESXi on a Software iSCSI Disk

 Start an interactive installation from the ESXi installation CD/DVD or mounted ISO
image.

 On the Select a Disk screen, select the iSCSI target you specified in the iBFT BIOS
target parameter setting.

 If the target does not appear in this menu, make sure that the TCP/IP and initiator
iSCSI IQN settings are correct. Check the network Access Control List (ACL) and
confirm that the adapter has adequate permissions to access the target.

 Follow the prompts to complete the installation.

 Reboot the host.
 In the host BIOS settings, enter the iBFT adapter BIOS configuration, and change the
adapter parameter to boot from the iSCSI target.
ESXi configuration

 Key operations available to you in the direct console include:

• Configuring hosts
• Setting up administrative access
• Set the Password for the Administrator Account
• Network Access to Your ESXi Host DHCP/STATIC
• Enable ESXi Shell and SSH Access with the Direct Console User Interface
• Troubleshooting

• Managing ESXi Remotely

• Use the vSphere Client , the vSphere Web Client, and vCenter Server to manage
the host.
vSphere client

Installation:
• If you downloaded the vSphere Client , Double-click the VMware-viclient-build
number.exe file.
• Follow the prompts in the wizard to complete the installation.
• You can use the vSphere Client to connect to an ESXi host or to connect to a vCenter
Server system.

 Start the vSphere Client

• Select Start > Programs > VMware > VMware vSphere Client.
• In the vSphere Client login window, take one of the following actions
Option Description
Log in to an ESXi host. Log in as root or as a normal user.
Log in to a vCenter Server system as the administrator
. a Type the vCenter Server IP address or host name. b
Type your user name and password
• To ignore the security warnings that appear, click Ignore.
vSphere Web Client

 Prerequisites
• Verify that you are a member of the Administrators group on the system.
• Verify that the system has an Internet connection.
• . The vSphere Web Client requires a 64-bit operating system for installation.

 Procedure
• In the software installer directory, double-click the autorun.exe file to start the installer.
• Select VMware vSphere® Web Client (Server) and click Install.
• Follow the wizard prompts to complete the installation.
• When the vSphere Web Client installation is finished, a browser opens.
• Register one or more vCenter Servers on the vSphere Web Client Administration Application page
in the browser..
• If the browser fails to open or to display the Administration Application page correctly, open the
application from the shortcut:From the Windows Start menu, select Programs > VMware >
VMware vSphere Web Client > vSphere Administration Application.
VSphere client

Convert an ESXi Host to Evaluation Mode

Procedure
• 1 From the vSphere Client, select the host in the inventory.
• 2 Click the Configuration tab.
• 3 Under Software, click Licensed Features.
• 4 Click Edit next to ESXi License Type.
• 5 Click (No License Key).
• 6 Click OK to save your changes.
• You can now access all the features of ESXi.
vSphere Virtual Machine Administration

 Create, configure, and manage virtual machines

 Lifecycle
• You can create a single virtual machine and install a guest operating system and
VMware Tools on it.
• You can clone or create a template from an existing virtual machine,
• deploy OVF templates.
 Virtual Machine Properties editors let you add, configure, or remove most of the
virtual machine's hardware, options, and resources.
• You monitor CPU, memory, disk, network, and storage metrics using the performance
charts in the vSphere Client.
• Snapshots let you capture the state of the virtual machine, including the virtual
machine memory, settings, and virtual disks.
• With Snapshots You can roll back to the previous virtual machine state when needed.
• When a virtual machine is no longer needed, you can remove it from the inventory
without deleting it from the datastore, or you can delete the virtual machine and all
its files
vSphere Virtual Machine Administration

 Virtual Machine Components

• Virtual machines typically have an operating system, VMware Tools, and virtual
resources and hardware that you manage in much the same way as you would
manage a physical computer.
• You install a guest operating system on a virtual machine the same way as you install
an operating system on a physical computer. You must have a CD/DVD-ROM or ISO
image containing the installation files from an operating system vendor.
• VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual
machine's guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine.
With VMware Tools, you have more control over the virtual machine interface.
• The hardware devices listed in the Virtual Machine Properties editor complete the
virtual machine. Not all devices are configurable. Some hardware devices are part
of the virtual motherboard and appear in the expanded device list of the Virtual
Machine Properties editor, but you cannot modify or remove them
vSphere Virtual Machine Administration

 Select a Datastore
• When you add a virtual machine to the vCenter Server inventory, you must select the
datastore on which to create the virtual machine's disks.
• Procedure : Select the datastore location where you want to store the virtual
machine files.
 Customize the Guest Operating System
• Customizing guest operating systems can help prevent conflicts that can result if
virtual machines with identical settings are deployed, such as conflicts because of
duplicate computer names.
• Procedure : Select a customization specification from the Guest OS Customization
drop-down menu and click Next.
• Customize Virtual Machine Hardware in the vSphere Web Client
• Procedure : To add a new virtual hardware device, select the device from the Add a
device drop-down menu and click Add device.
• Click the triangle next to any virtual device to view and configure the device settings.
vSphere Virtual Machine Administration

 Finish Virtual Machine Creation

• Procedure :
• Review the virtual machine settings and make any necessary changes by clicking
Previous to go back to the relevant page.
• Click Finish
 Clone a Virtual Machine
• When you clone a virtual machine, you create a copy of an existing virtual machine.
• Procedure :
• Select any inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine, such as a
datacenter, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host and click the Create Virtual Machine icon.

• Select Clone an existing virtual machine and click Next.

• Select the virtual machine to clone. In the Name text box, type a name for the virtual machine.

• Select or search for the datacenter or folder in which to deploy the virtual machine.
vSphere Virtual Machine Administration

 Deploy a Virtual Machine from a Template

• You can deploy a virtual machine from a template to create a virtual machine
1. Select any inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine, such
as a datacenter, folder, cluster, resource pool, or host and click the Create Virtual
Machine icon ( ).
2. Select Deploy from Template and click Next
• Select a Template- Procedure
1. Browse or search to locate a template.
2. Select the template.
3. (Optional) Select Customize the operating system to customize the guest
operating system of the virtual machine.
4. (Optional) Select Customize this virtual machine's hardware to configure the
virtual machine's hardware before deployment.
5. (Optional) Select Power On Virtual Machine after creation to power on the virtual
machine after creation is complete.
6. Click Next.