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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

Planning a virtual infrastructure project

A virtualization project is like any other business-related project and should follow the same set of methodologies and processes for successful project delivery. There are different methodologies that are commonly used, but they usually contain the same building blocks:

  1. Assess: This phase covers all the pieces of information needed for successful design, from the project objectives, business requirements, service level objectives, and agreements, possible risks, or constraints. It is essential to understand and capture all those inputs as they will define the resulting design and architecture.
  2. Design: During this phase, the design is created based on the information gathered in the previous step and must cover all the requirements defined by the organization's goals, requirements, or constraints.
  3. Deploy: In this phase, the production...