For information about the Related Items and All Alarms views also appearing in this summary, see the following :
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 Figure 20. Organization properties 
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 Figure 21. Organization vDC properties 
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 Figure 22. Provider vDCproperties 
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A typical vSphere® infrastructure consists of the following objects:
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 Virtual centers: Software used to manage virtual environments that are built on the VMware virtualization platform. Each virtual center creates a hierarchical structure of virtual objects that enables a system administrator to logically lay out their virtual infrastructure configuration.  | 
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 Resource pools: Mechanisms that enable the administrator to fine-tune resource allocations within a server cluster.   | 
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 Datastores: Storage location for virtual machine files.  | 
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 Datastore clusters: Collections of servers that share common storage resources.  | 
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