VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

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VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B

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VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Upgrading to vSphere 5.5

Upgrading to vSphere 5.5

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

Performing a New Installation of vSphere 5.5

Performing a New Installation of vSphere 5.5

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

Using vSphere Host Profiles

Using vSphere Host Profiles

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

Using ESXi Image Builder

Using ESXi Image Builder

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

Using vSphere Auto Deploy

Using vSphere Auto Deploy

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

Configuring vSphere Networking

Configuring vSphere Networking

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

Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

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

Managing iSCSI and NFS Datastores

Managing iSCSI and NFS Datastores

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

vSphere Storage Policies and Storage I/O Control

vSphere Storage Policies and Storage I/O Control

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

Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

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

Configuring vSphere HA

Configuring vSphere HA

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

Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

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

Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager

Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager

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

Using vSphere Management Assistant

Using vSphere Management Assistant

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

Monitoring the Performance of a vSphere Environment

Monitoring the Performance of a vSphere Environment

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

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About the Reviewers

Kenneth van Ditmarsch is a very experienced freelance virtualization consultant. As one of the few VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX), he has a clear added value in virtualization infrastructure projects. His knowledge and extensive project experience has greatly improved over the last few years he has spent at VMware and as a result of several specialized consulting engagements he has worked on.

Kenneth agreed to review this book based on his extensive VMware product experience. Also, you can visit his personal blog on virtualization at http://www.virtualkenneth.com.

Andy Grant is a technical consultant for HP Enterprise Services. His primary focus is data center infrastructure and virtualization projects across a number of industries, including government, healthcare, forestry, financial, gas and oil, and international contracting. He currently holds a number of technical certifications, including VCAP4/5-DCA/DCD, VCP4/5, MCITP:EA, MCSE, CCNA, Security+, A+, and HP ASE BladeSystem.

Outside of work, Andy enjoys hiking, action pistol sports, and spending time adventuring with his son.

Daniel Langenhan is a virtualization expert with formidable skills in architecture, design, and implementation for large multitier systems. His experience and knowledge of process management, enterprise-level storage, and Linux and Windows operating systems has made him and his business a highly sought after international consultancy in the Asia Pacific and European regions for multinational clientele in the areas of finance, communication, education, and government. He has been working with VMware products since 2002 and has been directly associated with VMware since 2008. He has a proven track record of successful integrations of virtualization into different business areas while minimizing cost and maximizing reliability and effectiveness of the solution for his clients.

Daniel's expertise and practical approach to VMware has resulted in the publication of the following books:

Instant VMware vCloud Starter, Packt Publishing
VMware View Security Essentials, Packt Publishing
VMware vCloud Director Cookbook, Packt Publishing
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook, Packt Publishing

He has also lent his expertise to many other publishing projects as a technical reviewer.