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Hi hanccocka,<br />
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Thanks for the reply. One last questio. Do you have any link to start checking this?<br />
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Regards
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<a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF05a/18964-18964-427972-4172290-4172290-4176535.html?dnr=1" rel="ugc nofollow">http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF05a/18964-18964-427972-4172290-4172290-4176535.html?dnr=1</a><br />
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from this link you will be able to download the whitepapers and manuals
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Hello,<br />
<br />
We have started using HP iMC PLAT 5.1 SP1.<br />
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The question that I have is if with this tool we can manage VMs and Vswitch without using Vsphere or Vcenter.<br />
<br />
Thanks
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Hello,

We have started using HP iMC PLAT 5.1 SP1.

The question that I have is if with this tool we can manage VMs and Vswitch without using Vsphere or Vcenter.

Thanks

Hi hanccocka,

Thanks for the reply. One last questio. Do you have any link to start checking this?

Regards

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF05a/18964-18964-427972-4172290-4172290-4176535.html?dnr=1

from this link you will be able to download the whitepapers and manuals

How to Manage VMs with HP IMC

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.