Virtualized Environment components for VMware

Last Updated : Nov 04, 2024 |

Virtualized component

Description

Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA)

The virtualized OS and application packaged in a single file that is used to deploy a virtual machine.

Customer-provided VMware or Avaya Solutions Platform 130 (Avaya-Supplied ESXi 7.0)

ESXi Host

The physical machine running the ESXi Hypervisor software.

ESXi Hypervisor

A platform that runs multiple operating systems on a host computer at the same time.

ESXi Embedded Host Client

The ESXi Embedded Host Client is a native HTML and JavaScript application and is served directly from the ESXi host.

vSphere Client (HTML5)

Using a Web browser, it connects to a vCenter server or directly to an ESXi host if a vCenter Server is not used.

vCenter Server

vCenter Server provides centralized control and visibility at every level of the virtual infrastructure. vCenter Server provides VMware features such as High Availability and vMotion.

This is not applicable for Avaya Solutions Platform 130.
Note:

With VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 onwards, only HTML5 based vSphere Client is supported.