What is Hypervisor?

It is a program that allows multiple OS to share a single h/w host. Each OS appears to have the
hosts processor, memory and other resources all to itself. However, the Hypervisor is actually
controlling the host processor and resources, allocating what is needed to each OS in turn and
making sure that the guest OS (virtual machines) cant disrupt each other.

What are the products included in VMware vSphere 5.5 Bundle?

VMware ESXi
VMware vCenter Server
VMware vSphere Client and Wen Client
vSphere Update Manager
VMware vCenter Orchestrator

What are the basic commands to troubleshoot connectivity between vSphere Client/vCenter to
ESX server?
Service mgmt-vmware restart(restarts host agent(vmware-hostd) on vmware esx server)
service vmware-vpxa restart(restarts Vcenter agent service)
service network restart (restarts management n/w on ESX)

What is vCenter Agent?

VC agent is an agent installed on ESX server which enabled communication between VC and ESX
server. This Agent will be installed on ESX/ESXi will be done when you try to add the ESx host in
Vcenter.

What type of Hypervisor VMware Esxi is?

VMware ESXi is bare-metal hypervisor. You can directly install on server hardware.