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VMware Vsphere 5.5 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Abhilash G B

VMware Vsphere 5.5 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

This is an excellent handbook for system administrators, support professionals, or for anyone intending to give themselves a headstart in learning how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment. It is also a good task-oriented reference guide for consultants or infrastructure architects who design and deploy vSphere environments.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.5

1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.5

Introduction

Downloading vCenter 5.5

Carrying out pre-upgrade checks

Upgrading the Single Sign-On component

Upgrading the vSphere Web Client

Upgrading the vCenter Inventory Service

Performing an upgrade of vCenter Server

Upgrading ESXi to Version 5.5

Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to Version 5.5

Upgrading VMware Tools

Upgrading the virtual machine hardware

Scheduling the virtual machine hardware upgrade

2. Performing a New Installation of vSphere 5.5

2. Performing a New Installation of vSphere 5.5

Introduction

Installing ESXi 5.5

Configuring the ESXi Management Network

Installing vCenter 5.5

Adding an additional Identity Source to the SSO server

Assigning users/groups to the vCenter Server

Deploying SSO for the vCenter Linked Mode

Creating a vCenter Linked Mode group

Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 5.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

Introduction

Preparing a reference host

Creating a Host Profile

Exporting a Host Profile

Importing a Host Profile

Duplicating a Host Profile

Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile

Verifying the profile compliance of an ESXi host

Remediating an ESXi host for profile compliance

Using Host Profiles to push a new configuration change

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

Introduction

Downloading an ESXi offline bundle

Creating an image profile by cloning a predefined profile

Removing an ESXi image profile

Adding a VIB (software package) to an image profile

Adding the HA VIB to the image profile

Exporting an image profile as an ISO or offline bundle

Creating an image profile from scratch

Applying an image profile to the host

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

Introduction

Installing an Auto Deploy server

Configuring a TFTP Server with Auto Deploy files

Configuring the DHCP server for PXE boot

Testing the PXE boot configuration

Preparing VMware PowerCLI for first use

Preparing vSphere Auto Deploy for provisioning

Choosing an ESXi Image Profile to deploy

Creating a Host Profile

Creating a deploy rule

Activating a deploy rule

Testing Auto Deploy

Enabling Stateless Caching

Performing an Auto Deploy stateful install

6. Configuring vSphere Networking

6. Configuring vSphere Networking

Introduction

Creating a vSphere Standard Switch

Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch

Creating a VMkernel interface on a standard vSwitch

Deleting a port group from a standard vSwitch

Adding an uplink to a standard vSwitch

Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch

Creating a distributed port group

Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch

Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch

Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink

Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming and failover on a vSwitch and a VDS

Migrating VMkernel interfaces between a standard vSwitch and VDS

Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a VDS

Creating a backup of a VDS

Restoring a VDS configuration

Importing a VDS into the data center from a backup

Creating Network Resource Pools on a VDS

Enabling port mirroring on a VDS

Enabling NetFlow on a VDS

Configuring private VLANs on a VDS

7. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

7. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

Introduction

Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host

Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi hosts

Viewing and changing the multipathing of a LUN

Creating a VMFS datastore

Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore

Extending a VMFS datastore

Unmounting a VMFS datastore

Mounting a VMFS datastore

Deleting a VMFS datastore

Upgrading from VMFS3 to VMFS5

Mounting VMFS from a snapshot LUN

Resignaturing VMFS on a snapshot LUN

Masking paths to a LUN

Unmasking paths to a LUN

Creating a datastore cluster

Enabling Storage DRS

8. Managing iSCSI and NFS Datastores

8. Managing iSCSI and NFS Datastores

Introduction

Adding the software iSCSI adapter

Preparing the vSphere network for iSCSI multipathing

Binding VMkernel interfaces to the software iSCSI adapter

Adding an iSCSI target server to the software iSCSI adapter

Creating an NFS Datastore

9. vSphere Storage Policies and Storage I/O Control

9. vSphere Storage Policies and Storage I/O Control

Introduction

Adding a storage provider

Creating user-defined capability tags for datastores

Creating VM storage policies

Assigning VM storage policies to virtual machine disks

Enabling Storage I/O Control

Modifying disk shares on a VM

10. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

10. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

Introduction

Creating a virtual machine

Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine

Adding an existing hard disk to a virtual machine

Attaching RDM to a virtual machine

Mapping a virtual machine's vNIC to a different port group

Adding a new virtual network adapter to a virtual machine

Creating a virtual machine snapshot

Deleting a virtual machine snapshot

Reverting to a current virtual machine snapshot

Switching to an arbitrary virtual machine snapshot

Consolidating snapshots

Exporting a virtual machine

11. Configuring vSphere HA

11. Configuring vSphere HA

Introduction

Enabling vSphere HA on a cluster

Configuring vSphere HA Admission Control

Setting the host isolation response for an HA cluster

Setting the VM restart priority for an HA cluster

Configuring VM monitoring

Configuring datastore heartbeating

Configuring a VM to override host monitoring and VM monitoring settings

Disabling host monitoring

12. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

12. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

Introduction

Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster

Configuring VMware EVC

Choosing a DRS automation level

Overriding the cluster automation level for a VM

Setting a migration threshold

Creating DRS host groups

Creating DRS VM groups

Creating VMs to the host affinity rules

Creating VM affinity/anti-affinity rules

Configuring vSphere Distributed Power Management

Enabling power management on a per-host level

13. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager

13. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager

Introduction

Preparing database connectivity for VUM

Installing vSphere Update Manager

Installing the vSphere Update Manager plugin

Adding a download source

Creating a baseline

Importing ESXi Images

Creating a host baseline group

Creating a VM and VA baseline group

Remediating a host or a cluster

Remediating a VM or a VA

Staging patches

Installing the Update Manager Download Service

Configuring UMDS and downloading data

Creating a shared repository

Using a shared repository

14. Using vSphere Management Assistant

14. Using vSphere Management Assistant

Introduction

Deploying the vMA appliance

Preparing VMware vMA for first use

Configuring VMware vMA to join an existing domain

Adding vCenter to vMA with AD authentication

Adding vCenter to vMA with fastpass (fpauth) authentication

Adding an ESXi host to vMA

Reconfiguring an added target server

Running CLI commands on target servers

Updating the vMA

15. Monitoring the Performance of a vSphere Environment

15. Monitoring the Performance of a vSphere Environment

Introduction

Using esxtop to monitor performance

Exporting and importing esxtop configurations

Running esxtop in batch mode

Gathering VM I/O statistics using vscsiStats

Using vCenter performance graphs

Index

Index

Creating a datastore cluster

Datastores presented to the ESXi servers can be grouped together into a single I/O and capacity pool known as the datastore cluster. The main purpose of creating a datastore cluster is to leverage Storage DRS's functionality to load balance the datastore's space utilization and I/O capacity.

For datastores to be in a datastore cluster, they should meet the following requirements:

The datastores in a datastore cluster should only be accessible to ESXi hosts from a single data center
A single datastore cluster cannot contain both VMFS and NFS volumes
All the ESXi hosts accessing the datastores should be of Version ESXi 5.0 or higher

There are a few more requirements documented in the Datastore Cluster Requirements section of the vSphere Resource Management guide at http://bit.ly/vsphere55_Resource_Management_Guide.

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to create a datastore cluster:

Use the vSphere Web Client to connect to the...

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