Книга: Mastering VMware® Infrastructure3

VMware Virtual SMP

VMware Virtual SMP

The VMware Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) product allows virtual infrastructure administrators to construct virtual machines with multiple virtual processors. VMware Virtual SMP is not the licensing product that allows ESX Server to be installed on servers with multiple processors; it is the configuration of multiple processors inside a virtual machine. Figure 1.2 identifies the differences between multiple processors in the ESX Server host system and multiple virtual processors.

Figure 1.2 VMware Virtual SMP allows virtual machines to be created with two or four processors.

In Chapter 6 we'll look at how, why, and when to build virtual machines with multiple virtual processors.

ESX Server includes a host of new features and support for additional hardware and storage devices. At the urging of the virtualization community, ESX Server now boasts support for Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) storage and network attached storage (NAS) in addition to Fibre Channel storage technologies. Chapter 4 describes the selection, configuration, and management of all three storage technologies supported by ESX Server.

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