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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By : Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By: Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, virtual cloud platform. It allows organisations to move to hybrid cloud computing by enabling them to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment. This up-to-date, 2nd edition provides complete coverage of vSphere 6.7. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, you will begin with an overview of the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You’ll learn how to design and plan a virtual infrastructure and look at the workflow and installation of components. You'll gain insight into best practice configuration, management and security. By the end the book you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run even the most demanding of workloads.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
8
Section 2: Managing Resources
13
Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

Content library

A content library is a container object to store templates, vApps, or other files that can be shared across multiple vCenter Server instances in the same or different locations to ensure consistency and compliance within the infrastructure.

vSphere 6.5 introduced new features and some enhancements that improve performance and recoverability. You can now mount an ISO directly from the content library, apply a guest OS customization during VM deployment, and update existing templates. The content library is included in the vSphere backup/restore service as well as the VCHA feature set (from VMware vSphere 6.5).

A VM template, a vApp template, or another type of file in a library is defined as a library item that can contain single or multiple files (ISO, OVF, and so on).

You can define multiple content libraries, and during the configuration, you specify on which...