Additional Components:

• vSphere Client
• A Windows program connects to the vCenter server or individual ESXi hosts to configure the hosts and virtual machines
• Connect to the vCenter server host via a browser and download or install from the zip file.
• vSphere Web Client
• Use thevSphere Web Client to connect to and manage a vCenter Server or individual ESXi host through a browser.
• Requires 64-bit OS and Flash Player 10.2
• VMware vSphere Update Manager
• Provides for a centralized patch and update management of ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• VMware ESXi Dump Collector
• You can configure ESXi to dump the vmkernel memory to a network server, rather than to a disk, when the system has encountered a critical failure (PSOD). Install vSphere ESXi Dump Collector to collect such memory dumps over the network. Useful for troubleshooting failure of ESXi hosts provisioned with Auto Deploy.
• What is a core dump? How do you configure ESXi to dump memory?
• VMware Syslog Collector
• The vSphere Syslog Collector enables ESXi system logs to be (re)directed to a server on the network, rather than to a local disk. The Syslog Collector service binds to an IPv4 address for communication with vCenter Server. IPv6 is not supported.
• The vCenter Server can be on a host machine in an IPv4-only, IPv4/IPv6 mixed-mode, or IPv6-only network environment, but the machine that connects to the vCenter Server through the vSphere Client must have an IPv4 address for the Syslog Collector service to work
• VMware Auto Deploy
• Allows for the provisioning and customization of ESXi hosts by loading the ESXi image directly into the hosts memory. Target host requires no boot disks.
• VMware vSphere Authentication Proxy
• Enables ESXi hosts to join a domain without using Active Directory credentials. It removes the need to store Active Directory credentials in the host configuration.
• Similar to the Syslog Collector, IPv6 is not supported.