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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

Summary

Security has become a critical part of any implementation, also for virtual environments. In addition to the security and hardening aspects of vSphere, the new version 6.7 introduces some essential new features related to this aspect, such as audit-quality logging of vSphere events, VM encryption, encrypted vMotion, Secure Boot support for VMs, and Secure Boot plus cryptographic hypervisor assurance for ESXi.

We have explained some security topics, such as security and hardening concepts in vSphere, new security options in vSphere 6.7, and how to design for security covering all three critical aspects of the vSphere suit to harden: vCenter Server, ESXi hypervisor, and the VM.

Encryption is one of the crucial tasks, especially when the data is not stored within the company, and the vSphere suite allows us to quickly implement encryption for data at rest as well as for data...