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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Preface

This book will provide the knowledge of vSphere 6.5 required in order to build, manage, and simply better understand such environments.

Using real-world scenarios, this book acts as a reference guide and possible baseline for each virtualization project based on VMware vSphere. Written by VMware vExperts and certified people, this book is an indispensable guide for each vSphere professional.

This book tries to fill the gaps in existing documentation, which in some cases is too in depth, with an organic approach and overview.

This book will quickly move from the design and plan to the deployment and management aspects of vSphere 6.5, considering its new features and capabilities. Then, we will explain the fundamentals in a fast-paced manner, which will help you by deep diving into the advanced functionalities. Toward the end, we will cover advanced vSphere security features, business continuity, availability, data protection, high availability, monitoring, patching, upgrading, and troubleshooting techniques.