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= Deploy and Manage Virtual Machines and vApps = | |||
== Create and Deploy Virtual Machines == | |||
* VM Hardware v4 runs on ESX3 or ESX4, v7 runs on ESX4 only | |||
'''Disk Types''' | |||
* Thick - traditional (can convert to Thin via Storage vMotion) | |||
* Thin - minimal space usage (conversion to Thick is manual process) | |||
'''SCSI Controller Types''' | |||
* BusLogic Parallel | |||
* LSI Logic SAS | |||
* LSI Logic Parallel | |||
* '''VMware Paravirtual''' | |||
** High performance to provide better throughput with lower ESX CPU usage | |||
** Only VM h/ware v7 with Win2k3, Win2k8 or Red Hat Ent v5 | |||
** Not supported with | |||
*** Boot disks (use a standard adapter for VM's OS/boot disk) | |||
*** Record/replay | |||
*** Fault Tolerance | |||
*** MSCS Clustering (so also SQL clusters) | |||
[[Category:VMware]] | [[Category:VMware]] |