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VMware vCenter Cookbook

VMware vCenter Cookbook

By : Kostantin Kuminsky
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VMware vCenter Cookbook

VMware vCenter Cookbook

4.3 (4)
By: Kostantin Kuminsky
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Overview of this book

If you are a system administrator who has some experience with virtualization and already uses VMware vCenter, but wishes to learn more, then this is the book for you. If you are looking for tips or shortcuts for common administration tasks as well as workarounds for pain points in vSphere administration, you'll find this guide useful.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Sections
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. vCenter Basic Tasks and Features
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1. vCenter Basic Tasks and Features
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Introduction
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Choosing the right vSphere and vCenter editions
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Booting a VM from a virtual CD-ROM
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Using hosts with different CPUs in one cluster
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Fixing VMware tools to autostart after Linux updates
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Running vCenter on a VM
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Managing several vCenter Servers from one client
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Accessing new vCenter features
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Accessing hosts via SSH
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Securing host management access
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Storing host logs on a shared datastore
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Configuring remote logging
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2. Increasing Environment Availability
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2. Increasing Environment Availability
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Introduction
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Configuring the HA feature
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Prioritizing VMs for recovery
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Tuning up vSphere HA
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Ensuring 100 percent uptime for critical VMs
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Protecting host redundancy for equally sized hosts
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Protecting host redundancy for significantly different hosts
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Protecting host redundancy with failover hosts
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Backing up/restoring .vmdk files
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Restoring VM backup without vCenter
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Configuring the backup retention policy
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Protecting the vCenter VM
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3. Increasing Environment Scalability
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3. Increasing Environment Scalability
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Introduction
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Delivering new VMs faster with templates
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Delivering new VMs faster with customizations
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Troubleshooting customizations
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Keeping templates up to date
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Utilizing host local storage
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Automating VM deployments
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Deploying new hosts faster with scripted installation
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Deploying new hosts faster with auto deploy
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Keeping host configuration consistent
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Increasing a VM's RAM and CPU online
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4. Improving Environment Efficiency
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4. Improving Environment Efficiency
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Introduction
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Meeting higher I/O needs with the VMware Paravirtual controller
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Improving network performance with the VMXNET 3 network adapter
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Using new virtual hardware
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Controlling storage space used by virtual disks
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Managing the space used by snapshots
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Improving host productivity with Flash Read Cache
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Speeding up VMs with Flash Read Cache
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Optimizing host power consumption
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Considering NUMA when configuring RAM
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vCPU versus pCPU and time slots
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5. Optimizing Resource Usage
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5. Optimizing Resource Usage
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Introduction
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Prioritizing VMs with shares
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Ensuring VMs have enough resources to run
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Limiting resources used by VMs
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Grouping VMs by resource usage
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Balancing loads between hosts
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Balancing loads between datastores
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Configuring storage load balancing thresholds
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Limiting VM storage I/O consumption
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Limiting VM network I/O consumption
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6. Basic Administrative Tasks
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6. Basic Administrative Tasks
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Introduction
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Improving visibility with email alerts
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Controlling the space used by snapshots
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Controlling datastore space utilization
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Automating VM placement with storage profiles
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Automating VM placement with VM affinity
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Automating VM placement with storage affinity
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Automating tasks with a scheduler
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Keeping hosts up to date
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7. Improving Environment Manageability
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7. Improving Environment Manageability
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Introduction
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Categorizing objects in the environment
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Scheduling the VM clone
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Redirecting VMkernel dumps to another server
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Gathering network traffic
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VDS configuration backup and restore
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Management network configuration recovery
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Choosing a MAC address prefix
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Getting familiar with new CLI
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Configuring the firewall from CLI
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Bypassing "hostd" when it's unresponsive with CLI
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Index

Chapter 2. Increasing Environment Availability

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Configuring the HA feature
  • Prioritizing VMs for recovery
  • Tuning up vSphere HA
  • Ensuring 100 percent uptime for critical VMs
  • Protecting host redundancy for equally sized hosts
  • Protecting host redundancy for significantly different hosts
  • Protecting host redundancy with failover hosts
  • Backing up/restoring .vmdk files
  • Restoring VM backup without vCenter
  • Configuring the backup retention policy
  • Protecting the vCenter VM
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