Index
A
- Active Directory (AD) domains / How to do it…
- Active Directory, for ESXi host authentication
- affinity rules
- hosting, with VM / Using a VM to host affinity and anti-affinity rules, How to do it…, How it works…
- alarms
- configuring / Configuring vCenter Mail, SNMP, and Alarms
- anti-affinity rules
- architecture design
- about / How it works...
- architecture design document
- about / Creating the architecture design document
- reference link / Creating the architecture design document
- creating / How to do it..., How it works...
- sample outline / How it works...
C
- Capacity Assessment (CA) / How to do it…
- Capacity Planner tool
- about / Introduction
- Certificate Authority (CA) / How to do it…
- Change Block Tracking (CBT)
- cluster resources
- balancing, with Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) / Using Distributed Resource Scheduling to balance cluster resources, How it works…
- cluster vMotion compatibility
- ensuring / Ensuring cluster vMotion compatibility, How it works…
- components, Virtual Volumes (VVOL)
- usingvSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) / How it works…
- Storage Containers (SC) / How it works…
- Protocol Endpoint (PE) / How it works…
- VVOL Objects / How it works…
- compute resources
- clustering / Clustering compute resources, How it works…
- conceptual design
- creating / Creating the conceptual design
- requisites / Design requirements
- constraints / Design constraints
- assumptions / Assumptions, There's more...
- Consolidation Estimate (CE) / How to do it…
- Converged Network Adapter (CNA)
- about / How it works...
- converged network adapters (CNA)
- about / How to do it…
- Converged Network Adapters (CNA) / How to do it...
- about / How it works…
- CPU Hot Add
- CPU resource requirements
- calculating / Calculating CPU resource requirements, How to do it…, How it works…
- custom ESXi image
- creating / Creating a custom ESXi image, How to do it…, There's more…
- custom TCP/IP stacks
- creating / Creating custom TCP/IP stacks, How it works…
D
- database
- selecting, for vCenter deployment / Selecting a database for the vCenter deployment, How it works…
- interoperability, determining / Determining database interoperability, How to do it…, There's more…
- interoperability, URL / How to do it…
- datacenter design
- holistic approach, using / Using a holistic approach to datacenter design, How to do it..., How it works...
- data fragment (DF)
- about / How it works…
- datastore clusters
- best practices / There's more...
- datastores
- sizing / Sizing datastores, How to do it..., How it works...
- about / Sizing datastores
- dependencies
- identifying / Identifying dependencies, How it works…
- design
- factors / Introduction
- requisites, identifying / Identifying design requirements, How it works...
- constraints, identifying / Identifying design constraints, How to do it..., How it works...
- assumptions, making / Making design assumptions, How it works...
- risks, identifying / Identifying design risks, How it works...
- conceptual design, creating / Creating the conceptual design
- presenting / Presenting the design, How to do it...
- presentation, working / How it works...
- implementing / Implementing the design, How to do it...
- design, requisites
- functional / Identifying design requirements
- nonfunctional / Identifying design requirements
- design documentation
- about / Introduction
- design factors
- identifying / Identifying the design factors, How it works…
- functional, requisites / How it works…
- nonfunctional, requisites / How it works…
- assumptions / How it works…
- constraints / How it works…
- risks / How it works…
- Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) / The hypervisor
- DirectPath I/O
- about / There's more…
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) / Virtual infrastructure management, How it works…
- about / vMotion network design considerations, Introduction
- used, for balancing cluster resources / Using Distributed Resource Scheduling to balance cluster resources, How it works…
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster / There's more...
E
- EMC Avamar
- about / Deploying VMware Data Protection
- Enhanced Linked Mode
- using / Using Enhanced Linked Mode, How it works…
- Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
- about / Ensuring cluster vMotion compatibility
- reference link / How it works…
- esxcli command
- about / How it works…
- ESXi 6 / There's more…
- ESXi Firewall
- configuring / ESXi Firewall configuration, How to do it…
- ESXi host
- upgrading / Upgrading an ESXi host, How it works…
- upgrading, via interactive upgrade / How it works…
- upgrading, via scripted upgrade / How it works…
- URL, for upgrading / How it works…
- upgrading, via esxcli command / How it works…
- upgrading, via vSphere Update Manager (VUM) / How it works…
- upgrading, via vSphere Auto Deploy / How it works…
- configurations, backing up / Backing up ESXi host configurations, How it works…, There's more…
- logs, configuring / Configuring ESXi host logging, How to do it…, How it works…
- ESXi host authentication
- Active Directory, using / Using Active Directory for ESXi host authentication, How it works…
- ESXi host BIOS settings
- best practices / Best practices for ESXi host BIOS settings, How to do it…, How it works…
- ESXi Lockdown mode
- about / The ESXi Lockdown mode, How to do it…, How it works…
F
- failures to tolerate (FTT) / How it works…
- Fault Tolerance (FT) / Identifying what's new in vSphere 6, How it works…
- fault tolerance protection
- enabling / Providing fault tolerance protection, How it works…
- requisites / How it works…
- Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
- Fibre Channel (FC)
- about / How it works...
- best practices / How it works...
- Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
- about / How it works...
- Fibre Channel of Ethernet (FCoE)
- about / How it works...
- best practices / How it works...
- FT Fast Check-Pointing
- Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) / How to do it…
G
- gigabits per second (Gbps)
- Gigabytes (GB) / Calculating the storage capacity requirements
H
- Hard disk drives (HDD) / How it works…
- Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
- URL / How to do it…, How to do it…
- reference / How it works…
- about / Introduction
- using / Using the VMware Hardware Compatibility List, How to do it…, How it works…
- reference link / How to do it…, There's more…
- HA resources
- reserving, to support failover / Reserving HA resources to support failover, How it works…
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) / Introduction
- High Availability (HA) / Virtual infrastructure management, There's more...
- about / Introduction
- Host Bus Adapters (HBA)
- about / How it works…
- host flash
- leveraging / How to do it…, How it works…
- hypervisor
- about / The hypervisor
I
- Image Builder PowerCLI commands
- using / How it works…
- implementation plan
- about / Writing an implementation plan
- writing / How to do it..., How it works...
- example outline / How it works...
- Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) / How to do it…
- Input/Output per Second (IOPS)
- installation guide
- about / How it works..., Developing an installation guide
- developing / How to do it..., How it works...
- assumption / How it works...
- purpose / How it works...
- example outline / How it works...
- Intel Extended Page Tables (EPT) / How to do it…
- Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
- about / IPv6 in a vSphere Design
- enabling, in vSphere Design / IPv6 in a vSphere Design, How it works…
- interoperability matrix
- URL / How it works…
- Interoperability Matrix
- reference link / There's more…
- IP storage
- network design considerations / IP storage network design considerations, How it works…
- IP version 4 (IPv4)
- about / IPv6 in a vSphere Design
- iSCSI
- best practices / How it works...
J
- jumbo frames
- using / Using jumbo frames, How to do it…, How it works…
L
- lockdown modes
- disabled / How it works…
- normal / How it works…
- strict / How it works…
- logical compute design
- specifications / How it works…
- logical network design
- specifications / How it works…
- logical storage design
- specifications / How it works…
- Logical Unit Number (LUN) / The hypervisor
M
- management availability
- designing for / Designing for management availability, How it works…
- management cluster
- separate management cluster, designing / Designing a separate management cluster, There's more…
- Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)
- about / How it works…
- megabits per second (Mbps)
- Memory Hot Plug
- memory resource requirements
- calculating / Calculating memory resource requirements, How it works…
N
- Native Multipathing PSPs
- Fixed / How it works...
- Most Recently Used (MRU) / How it works...
- Round Robin (RR) / How it works...
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) device / How it works...
- network availability
- providing / Providing network availability, How it works…
- network bandwidth requirements
- Network File System (NFS) data store / Virtual machines
- Network File System protocol (NFS) / How it works...
- Network I/O Control (NIOC)
- about / How it works…
- Network Interface Card (NIC)
- about / How to do it…
- network interface cards (NIC) / How it works…
- Network IO Control (NIOC)
- about / How it works…
- network resource management
- about / Network resource management, How it works…
- NFS-connected storage
- best practices / How it works...
- NFS version 4.1
- capabilities / NFS version 4.1 capabilities and limits, How it works…
- limits / NFS version 4.1 capabilities and limits, How it works…
- NMP PSP policies
- about / How it works...
- non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA) / How to do it…
O
- Open Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (OpenLDAP) authentication / How to do it…
- Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) / Virtual machines
- Open Virtualization Format (OVF) / Virtual machines
- Operation-Level Agreements (OLAs) / How to do it…
- about / How it works…
- operational procedures
- about / How it works..., Writing operational procedures
- writing / How to do it..., How it works...
- purpose / How it works...
- assumption / How it works...
- examples / How it works...
- example outline / How it works...
- reference link / Presenting the design
- Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) licenses / Identifying when not to virtualize
P
- paravirtualized VM hardware
- Path Selection Plugins (PSP)
- about / How it works...
- Payment Card Industry (PCI) / Introduction
- Performance Monitor (PerfMon) utility / Introduction
- Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) / How to do it...
- physical compute design
- creating / Creating the physical compute design, How it works…
- influential factors / How it works…
- physical design process
- about / Introduction
- physical network design
- creating / Understanding the physical network design, How it works…
- influential factors / How it works…
- physical servers
- converting, with vCenter Converter Standalone / Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone, How to do it…, How it works…
- physical storage design
- about / Understanding the physical storage design
- influential factors / How it works…
- Platform Service Controller (PSC) / Managing the Single Sign-On Password Policy
- Platform Services Controller (PSC) / Identifying vCenter components and dependencies
- Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) / How it works...
- PowerCLI
- URL / How to do it…
- preconfigured TCP/IP stacks
- default TCP/IP stack / Creating custom TCP/IP stacks
- vMotion TCP/IP stack / Creating custom TCP/IP stacks
- provisioning TCP/IP stack / Creating custom TCP/IP stacks
- primary PVLAN
- about / How it works…
- private VLANs (PVLANs)
- about / Using private VLANs
- using / How it works…, There's more…
- primary PVLAN / How it works…
- secondary PVLAN / How it works…
R
- Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI) / How to do it…
- Raw Device Mapping (RDM) / How it works…
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) / How to do it…, Backing up the vCenter Server components
- about / How it works…, How it works…, Introduction
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) / Backing up the vCenter Server components
- Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
- about / Identifying RAID levels
- identifying / Identifying RAID levels, How it works...
- Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) level / How it works…
- resource-scaling methodologies
- scaling up / Scaling up or scaling out, How it works…, There's more…
- scaling out / Scaling up or scaling out, How it works…, There's more…
- resource pools
- using / Using resource pools, How it works…
- shares / How it works…
- reservation / How it works…
- limit / How it works…
- role-based access control (RBAC)
- about / Configuring role-based access control
- configuring / How to do it…, How it works…
S
- scaling out
- scaling up
- secondary PVLAN
- about / How it works…
- Promiscuous PVLAN / How it works…
- Community PVLAN / How it works…
- Isolated PVLAN / How it works…
- Secure Shell (SSH) / The hypervisor
- Secure Shell Daemon (SSHD) / How it works…
- Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)
- about / How to do it…, How it works…
- Service-Level Objective (SLO)
- about / How it works…
- Service Delivery Kits
- reference link / Introduction
- Single Points of Failure (SPOF)
- about / Providing network availability
- Single Sign-On (SSO) / How to do it…, Managing the Single Sign-On Password Policy
- Single Sign-On (SSO) Identity Sources
- Single Sign-On (SSO) password policy
- Site Recovery Manager (SRM) / Virtual infrastructure management
- about / There's more…, Protecting the virtual datacenter with Site Recovery Manager
- used, for protecting virtual datacenter / Protecting the virtual datacenter with Site Recovery Manager, How to do it…, How it works…
- URL / Protecting the virtual datacenter with Site Recovery Manager
- SNMP
- configuring / Configuring vCenter Mail, SNMP, and Alarms
- Software Defined Storage (SDS) / Incorporating storage policies into a design
- Solid-state disks (SSD) / How it works…
- Solid State Disks (SSD)
- about / Leveraging host flash
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- about / How it works...
- stakeholders
- identifying / Identifying stakeholders, How it works…
- interview, conducting / Conducting stakeholder interviews, How to do it…, How it works…
- standard virtual switch (vSwitch)
- about / Standard or distributed virtual switches
- configuring / How it works…
- Storage Area Network (SAN) / The hypervisor
- Storage Array Type Plugin (SATP)
- about / How it works...
- storage capacity requirements
- calculating / Calculating the storage capacity requirements, How to do it...
- storage connectivity options
- Storage IO Control (SIOC) / How it works…
- storage path selection plugins
- storage performance
- storage performance requirements
- determining / How to do it..., How it works..., There's more...
- Storage Policies
- about / Incorporating storage policies into a design
- incorporating, into design / Incorporating storage policies into a design, How it works…
- Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)
- about / How it works…
- storage throughput
- calculating / Calculating the storage throughput, How it works...
- Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) / How it works…
- Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP)
- about / How it works…
T
- TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) / How it works...
- Terabytes (TB) / Calculating the storage capacity requirements
- traffic shaping policy
- bandwidth characteristics / How it works…
- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) / The hypervisor
- about / Transparent Page Sharing, How it works…, How it works…
- reference link / How it works…
U
- Update Manager Download Service (UMDS)
- about / There's more…
V
- validation test plan
- about / How it works..., Creating a validation test plan
- creating / How to do it..., How it works...
- purpose / How it works...
- assumptions / How it works...
- usability testing procedures / How it works...
- reliability testing procedures / How it works...
- example outline / How it works...
- vApps
- used, for organizing virtualized applications / Using vApps to organize virtualized applications, How to do it…, How it works…
- VCAP-DCD exam / How to do it…
- VCAP6-DCV Design exam / How to do it…
- vCenter
- components, identifying / Identifying vCenter components and dependencies, How to do it…, How it works…
- dependencies, identifying / Identifying vCenter components and dependencies, How to do it…, How it works…
- vCenter Converter Standalone
- used, for converting physical servers / Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone, How to do it…, How it works…
- vCenter deployment
- database, selecting for / Selecting a database for the vCenter deployment, How it works…
- vCenter deployment option
- selecting / Selecting a vCenter deployment option, How it works…
- vCenter deployment topology
- selecting / Choosing a vCenter deployment topology, How it works…
- vCenter Mail
- configuring / Configuring vCenter Mail, SNMP, and Alarms, How to do it…, How it works…
- vCenter resource
- requisites, determining / Determining vCenter resource requirements, How it works…, There's more…
- vCenter Server
- upgrading / Upgrading vCenter Server, How it works…
- vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) / Virtual infrastructure management, How it works…
- vCenter Server components
- backing up / Backing up the vCenter Server components
- vCPU-to-core ratio
- determining / Determining the vCPU-to-core ratio, How it works…
- vice presidents (VPs) / How it works…
- vicfg-cfgbackup vCLI command
- URL / How it works…
- Virtual CPUs (vCPUs) / Identifying when not to virtualize
- virtual datacenter
- protecting, with Site Recovery Manager (SRM) / Protecting the virtual datacenter with Site Recovery Manager, How to do it…, How it works…
- virtual datacenter architect
- virtual distributed switch (vDSwitch)
- about / Standard or distributed virtual switches
- configuring / How it works…
- features / How it works…
- virtual distributed switch configurations
- virtual environment
- security requirements / Introduction
- Virtual Flash
- about / Leveraging host flash
- Virtual Flash File System (VFFS)
- about / How it works…
- virtualization
- virtualized applications
- organizing, with vApps / Using vApps to organize virtualized applications, How to do it…, How it works…
- Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) / How to do it...
- virtual machine
- about / Virtual machines
- virtual machine design / Introduction
- virtual machine disks (VMDKs)
- about / How to do it…
- Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) / The hypervisor
- virtual machines
- right-sizing / Right-sizing virtual machines, How it works…
- backing up, with vSphere Data Protection (VDP) / How to do it…, How it works…, There's more…
- replicating, with vSphere Replication / Replicating virtual machines with vSphere Replication, How to do it…, How it works…
- virtual machine templates
- virtual network
- security / Virtual network security, How it works…
- Virtual Volumes (VVOL) / Identifying what's new in vSphere 6
- about / Introduction, Using VMware Virtual Volumes
- using / How to do it…, How it works…
- components / How it works…
- VM
- used, for hosting affinity rules / Using a VM to host affinity and anti-affinity rules, How to do it…, How it works…
- used, for hosting anti-affinity rules / Using a VM to host affinity and anti-affinity rules, How to do it…, How it works…
- VM affinity rules
- VMkernel network connectivity
- bandwidth requisites / How it works…
- VMkernel services
- designing / Designing for VMkernel services, How it works…
- vMotion
- network design considerations / How to do it…, How it works…, There's more…
- VM virtual hardware
- upgrading / Upgrading VM virtual hardware, How to do it…, How it works…, There's more…
- VMware
- reference link / How to do it…, How to do it…
- VMware Capacity Planner
- VMware Capacity Planner Dashboard
- URL / How it works…, There's more…
- VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) / How to do it…
- VMware Certification portal page
- VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) / Passing the VMware VCAP6-DCV Design exam
- VMware Certified Implementation Expert-Datacenter Virtualization (VCIX6-DCV) / Introduction
- VMware Certified Implementation Expert-Datacenter Virtualization Design (VCIX6-DCV) / Passing the VMware VCAP6-DCV Design exam
- VMware Certified Professional 6-Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV) / Getting ready
- VMware Communities
- URL / There's more…
- VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) / Storage connectivity options
- VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) / Storage connectivity options
- VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
- about / How it works...
- VMware HCL
- reference link / How to do it…
- VMware High Availability (HA) / How it works…, Storage connectivity options
- VMware KB Article 2091961
- URL / How it works...
- VMware Knowledge Base
- reference link / How it works…, How it works…
- VMware Knowledge Base article
- reference / How it works…
- VMware Native Multipathing Plugin (NMP)
- about / How it works...
- VMware Optimization Assessment (VOA)
- VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) / How it works…
- VMware Tools
- upgrading / Upgrading and installing VMware Tools, How it works…
- installing / Upgrading and installing VMware Tools, How to do it…, How it works…
- VMware VCAP6-DCV design exam
- VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
- reference link / How to do it…
- VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
- about / Introduction, Designing for VMware VSAN
- designing for / Designing for VMware VSAN, How it works…, There's more…
- VMware Virtual Volumes
- VMware VSAN Design and Sizing Guide
- reference / There's more…
- VMware vSphere 6.0 Hardening Guide
- VMware vSphere Storage DRS Interoperability whitepaper
- reference / There's more...
- VMware vSphere Update Manager (VUM) / How it works…
- about / Designing a vSphere Update Manager Deployment
- deploying / How to do it…, How it works…
- URL / How it works…
- vRealize Automation (vRA) / Virtual infrastructure management
- vRealize Operations (vROps) / Virtual infrastructure management
- vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs) / How it works…
- vROPs
- reference link / How it works…
- VSAN Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) / How to do it…
- vSphere 5.5
- URL / How it works…
- vSphere 6
- features / Identifying what's new in vSphere 6, There's more…
- URL / How to do it…
- upgrade, planning / Planning a vSphere 6 upgrade, How it works…
- vSphere 6.0
- URL / How it works…
- vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
- about / How it works…
- vSphere Auto Deploy
- about / How it works…
- vSphere Command-Line Interface (vCLI) / Virtual infrastructure management, How it works…
- vSphere Command-line Interface (vCLI)
- about / How it works…
- URL / How it works…
- vSphere Data Protection (VDP) / How it works..., How it works…
- about / Deploying VMware Data Protection
- deploying / Deploying VMware Data Protection, How to do it…
- URL / How to do it…
- used, for backing up virtual machines / How to do it…, How it works…, There's more…
- vSphere Design
- Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), enabling / IPv6 in a vSphere Design, How it works…
- vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC)
- about / How to do it…, How it works…
- vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs)
- about / How to do it…
- vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) / Virtual infrastructure management
- about / How it works…
- vSphere Optimization Assessment (VOA)
- about / Introduction
- vSphere Replication
- virtual machines, replicating with / Replicating virtual machines with vSphere Replication, How to do it…, How it works…
- URL / How to do it…
- vSphere storage design
- about / Introduction
- vSphere Update Manager (VUM)
- about / How it works…
- vSphere Upgrade & Install
- URL / There's more…
- vSphere web client
- vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
- about / How it works..., How it works…
W
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) / How it works…
- Windows Performance Monitor