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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

By : Andrea Mauro , Paolo Valsecchi , Karel Novak

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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

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By: Andrea Mauro , Paolo Valsecchi , Karel Novak

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Overview of this book

VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease. You’ll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you’ll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you’ll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we’ll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you’ll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer Support

Free Chapter

Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite

VMware and vSphere background

VMware vSphere as a Cloud Foundation

VMware vSphere as an infrastructure foundation

What's new on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere limits?

Summary

Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure

Plan a virtual infrastructure project

Assess

Design

Different scenarios

Summary

Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment

Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing

Assessment of an existing virtual environment

Summary

Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

vSphere components and workflow

ESXi deployment plan

ESXi installation

vCenter Server components

vCenter Server deployment

vCSA deployment

Summary

Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5

VMware vSphere HTML5 client

ESXi configuration

vCSA configuration

Managing data centers, clusters, and hosts

Automating tasks with scripts

Summary

Advanced Network Management

Basic overview

Virtual networking

Introduction to NSX

Summary

Advanced Storage Management

Storage basics

The evolution of the storage world

VMware vSphere storage types

VMware vSphere storage configuration

Storage features

Storage integration

Storage design

Introduction to HCI and vSAN

Caching with vSphere Flash Read Cache

Summary

Advanced VM and Resource Management

VM components

Deploying VMs

Managing VMs

Resource management

VM migration

Converting VMs

Summary

Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting

What is troubleshooting?

Monitoring a virtual environment

Logs

Troubleshooting

Summary

Securing and Protecting Your Environment

Regulations and compliance

Security and hardening concepts in vSphere

New security options in vSphere 6.5

Summary

Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

Updating or patching ESXi hosts and vCSAs

VUM

Upgrading and migrating to vSphere 6.5

Summary

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

BC concepts

Disaster recovery (DR)

VMware solutions

Summary

Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5

VMware vSphere HA

VMware vSphere FT

VMware vCenter High Availability (VCHA)

VMware vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Summary

Data and Workloads Protection

Backup technologies

File-based backup of the vCSA

Protecting the workloads

Summary

Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

VMware vSphere 6.5 is a sophisticated product with several components to install and set up. Understanding the correct sequence of tasks required to install and configure vSphere is the key to a successful deployment. The chapter starts by explaining the components of vSphere with their roles and services provided. We will walk-through the main aspects to consider for the preparation of a deployment plan for your environment, analyzing the criteria for hardware platform selection, storage and network requirements.

The host deployment plan will then describe the different ways to install ESXi, including Auto Deploy, and other solutions for deploying the host part. We'll also detail the deployment of Platform Services Controller (PSC), vCenter Server, and other components, including the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) solution...