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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright

Overview of this book

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Using vApps to organize virtualized applications

vApps can be used to group individual virtual machines with interdependencies into a single application. A common use case for this would be a multi-tier web application that requires a web server frontend, an application server, and the supporting database server. The application can then be managed as a single inventory object.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to use vApps to organize virtual machine workloads:

  1. Create a new vApp by launching the New vApp… wizard, as shown in the following screenshot:
Context menu to create a new vApp
  1. The method for creating the vApp (either creating a new vApp or cloning an existing vApp), the vApp Name, the Folder...