Managing data centers, clusters, and hosts

vCenter Server is a core component of the infrastructure that allows a centralized administration of hosts and VMs for your environment. To ensure the maximum efficiency of the infrastructure, you need to consider how to administer VMs and their resource demands.

For an optimal organization of the inventory, you need to create some virtual objects in the vCenter Server to define a logical structure. The organization of the inventory requires the following tasks to be performed:

1. Create data center(s)
2. Create cluster(s)
3. Add hosts to the cluster
4. Build a logical infrastructure using folders
5. Set up networking (vSS and vDS)
6. Configure the storage system (the datastore and the datastore cluster)
7. Create clusters (resource consolidation, vSphere HA, and vSphere DRS)
8. Create a resource pool (flexible management of resources)

In vCenter Server, there...