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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By : Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By: Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, virtual cloud platform. It allows organisations to move to hybrid cloud computing by enabling them to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment. This up-to-date, 2nd edition provides complete coverage of vSphere 6.7. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, you will begin with an overview of the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You’ll learn how to design and plan a virtual infrastructure and look at the workflow and installation of components. You'll gain insight into best practice configuration, management and security. By the end the book you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run even the most demanding of workloads.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Getting Started
8
Section 2: Managing Resources
13
Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments

It is crucial to find a simple and effective way to analyze an existing environment; this task could become an essential aspect of your system that must be appropriately planned and executed.

These are some situations in which you may need to analyze an existing environment:

  • Before planning a virtualization project: Before starting on your virtualization journey, it is essential to understand your current IT infrastructure and how the virtualization process will impact it; this is not only to clarify whether virtualization is possible but also to match or better transform existing procedures in the new environment.
  • Before a migration: It doesn't matter whether we are talking about an entire platform migration, a migration from one hypervisor to another, or merely a migration across vSphere (maybe different versions, in the...