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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright

Overview of this book

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Preface

VMware is the industry leader for data center virtualization. This third edition of the Data center Design Cookbook covers VMware's vSphere 6.7 suite of products, which provides a robust and resilient platform for virtualizing server and application workloads. The features available in vSphere 6.7 simplify management, increase availability, provide security, and guarantee the performance of workloads deployed in the virtualized data center.

The VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook provides recipes for creating a virtual data center design using the features of vSphere 6.7 by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process.

The VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook steps through the design process from beginning to end. From the discovery process, to creating the conceptual design, to calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design, to mapping the logical requirements to a physical design, and finally, creating the design documentation.

The recipes in this book provide guidance on making design decisions to ensure the successful creation and, ultimately, the successful implementation of a VMware vSphere 6.7x virtual data center design.