AGENDA

RECAP OF VIRTUALIZATION

POPULAR HYPERVISIORS SOFTWARES

INTRODUCTION OF VMware ESXi & its VERSIONS

INSTALLATION STEPS FOR VMware ESXi

Hypervisor Softwares

Popular Softwares in type 1 hypervisor :1. VMware vSphere / ESXi2. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 3. Citrix XenServer4. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

Popular Softwares in Type2 hypervisor: 1. VMware Workstation 2. Virtual Box 3. Microsoft Virtual Server

Virtual Machine running on top of VMware ESXi

Virtual Machine running on top of VMware Server

VMware ESX

Versions of VMware ESX :

VMware ESX Server 1.0 Build 1062 (23-March-2001)

VMware ESX Server 1.5 (13 May 2002)

VMware ESX 2.0 (21 July 2003)

VMware ESX 2.5 (14 December 2004)

VMware Infrastructure 3.0 (VI3) (5 June 2006)

VMware ESX Server 3.5 (10 December 2007)

VMware vSphere 4.0 (20 May 2009)

Installation steps for VMware ESX:

There are 10 easy steps for installing VMware