[ TIP OF THE DAY ] VMware vCenter inventory objects.

VMware vCenter monitors and manages the following inventory objects:
(1) Data Centers.
- Virtual machines (and templates)
- Hosts (and clusters)
- Networks
- Datastores

(2) Clusters. Collect ESXi hosts and their VMs to work together as a unit.

(3) Datastores. Is the storage location for virtual machine files.
- Local SCSI disk of the ESXi host
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) arrays
- vSAN datastores

(4) Folders. Group objects of the same type so you can easily manage them.

(5) Hosts. Is the physical computer hardware to install vSphere ESXi.

(6) Networks.
- Virtual network interface cards (virtual NICs)
- vSphere Standard Switches (vSS)
- vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS)

(7) Resource pools. Separate the CPU and memory resources of a host or cluster.

(8) Templates. Is a copy of a virtual machine with O/S & apps that can be used to create new VMs.

(9) Virtual machines. VMs allow you to run an O/S and apps that behaves like a full computer.

(10) vApps. vSphere vApp can have multiple virtual machines.