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Data center architecture for VMware ESX and ESXi A data center's hardware and networking components can greatly improve your VMware environment's return on investment, or ROI, as resulting performance greatly depends on the underlying architecture. From this page, you can navigate to subsections that provide collections of expert tips and step-by-step how-to's that help you leverage your existing storage and networking architecture with configuration, purchasing and general management tips. Alternatively, if you're in the market for new hardware, our articles can help you decide what to purchase to support a virtualized infrastructure.

	Selecting storage and hardware Managing storage in a VMware environment will bring a few topics to mind: snapshots, Storage VMotion, and VMFS – the Virtual Machine File System, which is VMware's preferred storage method for virtual machines. Raw device mapping (RDM), however, provides similar performance and can ...

	VMware and networking Networking in a VMware environment can be a pain point for administrators as there are related security concerns. VMware networks can circumvent firewall and router security measures that separate a demilitarized zone from an external network, so there are extra precautions an IT pro ...

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