VMware Consolidated Backup
Consolidated Backup enables offloaded and impact-free backup for virtual machines running on an ESX Server system by allowing traditional file-based backup software to leverage VMware virtual machine snapshot technology and efficient SAN-based data transfer.
Remote CD/Floppy Access
Using either the Virtual Infrastructure Client or Virtual Infrastructure Web Access, a virtual machine can access a CD or floppy device from the client's machine.
VMware HA
VMware HA (High Availability) increases the availability of virtual machines by detecting host failures and automatically restarting virtual machines on other available hosts. HA operates on a set of ESX Server 3.0 hosts that have been grouped into a cluster with HA enabled.
VMware DRS
Distributed Resource Scheduling allows resources from all hosts in a cluster to be treated as a single, aggregated pool. When changes occur in the environment, DRS can tune the resource scheduling on individual hosts as well as use VMotion to rebalance workload across hosts in the cluster. When a virtual machine is powered on, DRS calculates the optimal host on which to start it, given current resource levels and the resource configuration of the new virtual machine.
Resource Pools
A resource pool provides a way of subdividing the resources of a stand-alone host or a cluster into smaller pools. A resource pool is configured with a set of CPU and memory resources that are shared by the virtual machines that run in the resource pool. Resource pools can be nested.
VMotion
- Virtual machine migrations while powered on (VMotion) are also all fully operational and enable migrations between two ESX Server 3.0 hosts or between two ESX Server 2.x hosts.
- Virtual machine migrations while powered off (cold migrations) are all fully operational and enable migrations between two ESX Server 3.x hosts or between ESX Server 3.x and ESX Server 2.x hosts.
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