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Its also used to provison storage (maybe even integrated with your SAN) and create virtual machines, including templates and other wonderful things.
For those wanting to find out the new features specifically in vSphere and vCenter server 5 please see here.
For HA, DRS, vMotion and Storage vMotion to work you need to use shared storage, in this case an iSCSI SAN.
I will show you how to configure ESX to connect to and use iSCSI SAN storage in its most basic way.
See Configuring iSCSI Storage (Advanced with CHAP) if you will be using CHAP authentication.
VMware vCenter Server is "THE" management system for your VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure. It's used to manage your clusters of ESXi servers, configure HA, DRS and vMotion, manage your virtual networks and their interfaces to the physical network.
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