Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7
Nicholas Marshall, Mike Brown, G. Blair Fritz, Ryan Johnson · 2018
VMware vSphere 6.7 builds on previous generations of VMware's enterprise-grade virtualization products that have been leading the industry since 2001. This chapter helps administrators to identify the role of each product in the vSphere product suite, recognize the interaction and dependencies between the products in the vSphere suite, and understand how vSphere differs from other virtualization products. VMware vSphere is a comprehensive collection of products and features that together provide a full array of enterprise virtualization functionality. vSphere Update Manager is a component of vCenter Server that helps users keep their ESXi hosts and select virtual machines (VMs) patched with the latest updates. With profile-driven storage, vSphere administrators can use storage capabilities and VM storage profiles to ensure VMs reside on storage that provides the necessary levels of capacity, performance, availability, and redundancy.