An introduction to VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere is a suite of core infrastructure solutions that help manage and monitor a virtual data center. The term vSphere was coined by VMware as a new name for their flagship virtual infrastructure in the year 2009 with the release of VMware Virtual Infrastructure 4. All the previous releases were called Virtual Infrastructure 3.x or 3.5 or 2.5, and backwards. The most recent version being vSphere 6 is the sixth generation of VMware's vSphere product line. They are the most feature rich and probably the only virtualization suite on the market covering every aspect of the virtual infrastructure with their own products or solutions.

So what really makes up vSphere? vSphere is basically a set of software solutions ...

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