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vSphere Virtual Machine Management

vSphere Virtual Machine Management

By : Rebecca Fitzhugh
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By: Rebecca Fitzhugh
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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vSphere Virtual Machine Management
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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Preface
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Preface
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Virtual Machine Concepts
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Virtual Machine Concepts
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vSphere virtual machines
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Virtual machine components
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Uses of virtual machines
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The primary virtual machine resources
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Virtual machine files
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VMware Tools
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Summary
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Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard
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Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard
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vSphere Client versus vSphere Web Client
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Creating a VM using the typical configuration wizard
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Creating a VM using the custom configuration wizard
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Creating a VM using vSphere Web Client
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Summary
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Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine
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Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine
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Configuring virtual machine customizations
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Creating a virtual machine from a template
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Creating a virtual machine by cloning
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Creating a virtual machine from an OVF file
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Creating a virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter
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Summary
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Advanced Virtual Machine Settings
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Advanced Virtual Machine Settings
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Introducing the virtual machine monitor
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Enabling CPU hot plug / memory hot add
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The CPUID mask
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The CPU affinity setting
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Setting the .vswp location
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Viewing other advanced options
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Installing VMware Tools
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Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps
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Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps
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What is a vApp?
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Creating a vApp
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vApp options
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Exporting a vApp
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Cloning a vApp
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Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation
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Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation
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Resource performance concepts
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Understanding resource controls
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Resource pools
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Network I/O Control
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Storage I/O Control
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Disk alignment
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Performance tuning
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Summary
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Monitoring Virtual Machines
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Monitoring Virtual Machines
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Performance charts
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Using esxtop
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Using alarms
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Other places to find information
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Summary
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Migrating Virtual Machines
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Migrating Virtual Machines
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vMotion
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Migration using Storage vMotion
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Cross-host Storage vMotion
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Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability
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Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability
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Clusters
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Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
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High Availability
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Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS)
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Virtual Machine Design
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Virtual Machine Design
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Comparing provisioning methods
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Virtual hardware and resource configuration
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Other considerations
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Summary
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Installing VMware Tools

VMware Tools is a utility suite that enhances the performance of a virtual machine's guest OS. If VMware Tools is not installed in the guest operating system, the guest will be lacking in some important functionality. The VMware Tools utility improves virtual machine management by replacing the generic OS drivers with VMware drivers optimized for virtual hardware, as well as with more counters within the performance monitor, the ability to quiesce, and so on.

Installing VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine

All supported Windows guest operating systems support VMware Tools.

Right-click on the virtual machine in the inventory and navigate to All vCenter Actions | Guest OS | Install/Upgrade VMware Tools within the vSphere Web Client. Alternatively, there is a hyperlink available in the Summary tab of a virtual machine. This is demonstrated in the following screenshot:

The VMware Tools installer will initialize within the guest operating system, as shown in the next...

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