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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

By : Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi

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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

By: Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware's industry-leading virtual cloud platform. By understanding how to manage, secure, and scale apps with vSphere 6.7, you can easily run even the most demanding of workloads. This Learning Path begins with an overview of the features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You'll learn how to plan and design a virtual infrastructure. You'll also gain insights into best practices to efficiently configure, manage, and secure apps. Next, you'll pick up on how to enhance your infrastructure with high-performance storage access, such as remote direct memory access (RDMA) and Persistent memory. The book will even guide you in securing your network with security features, such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption. Finally, by learning how to apply Proactive High Availability and Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you'll be able to achieve enhanced computing, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run high workloads. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition by Mike Brown and Hersey Cartwright Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition by Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, and Paolo Valsecchi

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Free Chapter

The Virtual Data Center

The Virtual Data Center

Benefits and technologies of virtualization

Becoming a virtual data center architect

Using a holistic approach to data center design

Passing the VMware VCAP6-DCV Design exam

Becoming a VMware Certified Design Expert

Identifying what's new in vSphere 6.7

Planning a vSphere 6.7 upgrade

The Discovery Process

The Discovery Process

Identifying the design factors

Identifying stakeholders

Conducting stakeholder interviews

Using VMware Capacity Planner

Using Windows Performance Monitor

Conducting a VMware optimization assessment

Identifying dependencies

The Design Factors

The Design Factors

Identifying design requirements

Identifying design constraints

Making design assumptions

Identifying design risks

Considering infrastructure design qualities

Creating the conceptual design

vSphere Management Design

vSphere Management Design

Identifying vCenter components and dependencies

Selecting a vCenter deployment option

Determining vCenter resource requirements

Selecting a database for the vCenter deployment

Determining database interoperability

Choosing a vCenter deployment topology

Designing for management availability

Designing a separate management cluster

Configuring vCenter mail, SNMP, and alarms

Using Enhanced Linked Mode

Using the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix

Backing up the vCenter Server components

Planning vCenter HA to increase vCenter availability

Upgrading vCenter Server

Designing a vSphere Update Manager Deployment

vSphere Storage Design

vSphere Storage Design

Identifying RAID levels

Calculating storage capacity requirements

Determining storage performance requirements

Calculating storage throughput

Storage connectivity options

Storage path selection plugins

Sizing datastores

Designing VSAN for virtual machine storage

Using VMware Virtual Volumes

Incorporating storage policies into a design

NFS version 4.1 capabilities and limits

Using persistent memory to maximize VM performance

vSphere Network Design

vSphere Network Design

Determining network bandwidth requirements

Standard or distributed virtual switches

Providing network availability

Network resource management

Using private VLANs

IP storage network design considerations

Using jumbo frames

Creating custom TCP/IP stacks

Designing for VMkernel services

vMotion network design considerations

Using 10 GbE converged network adapters

IPv6 in a vSphere design

Remote direct memory access options

vSphere Compute Design

vSphere Compute Design

Calculating CPU resource requirements

Calculating memory resource requirements

Transparent page sharing

Scaling up or scaling out

Determining the vCPU-to-core ratio

Clustering compute resources

Reserving HA resources to support failover

Using distributed resource scheduling to balance cluster resources

Ensuring cluster vMotion compatibility

Using resource pools

Providing Fault Tolerance protection

Leveraging host flash

vSphere Physical Design

vSphere Physical Design

Using the VMware Hardware Compatibility List

Understanding the physical storage design

Understanding the physical network design

Creating the physical compute design

Creating a custom ESXi image

The best practices for ESXi host BIOS settings

Upgrading an ESXi host

Virtual Machine Design

Virtual Machine Design

Right-sizing virtual machines

Enabling CPU hot add and memory hot plug

Using paravirtualized VM hardware

Creating virtual machine templates

Upgrading and installing VMware Tools

Upgrading VM virtual hardware

Using vApps to organize virtualized applications

Using VM affinity and anti-affinity rules

Using VM to Host affinity and anti-affinity rules

Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone

Migrating servers into vSphere

Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

vSphere components and workflow

ESXi deployment plan

ESXi installation

vCenter Server components

vCenter Server Appliance deployment

Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7

Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7

Using the VMware vSphere HTML5 client

Configuring ESXi

Backing up and restoring ESXi

Configuring vCSA

Exporting and importing the vCSA configuration

Managing data centers, clusters, and hosts

Automating tasks with scripts

Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

Patching a vSphere 6.7 environment

Upgrade flow to vSphere 6.7

Upgrading vCSA 6.5 to vCSA 6.7

Upgrading vCenter 6.5 for Windows to vCenter 6.7 for Windows

Migrating vCenter 6.5 for Windows to vCSA 6.7

Upgrading standalone ESXi servers

Updating the vCSA

VM Deployment and Management

VM Deployment and Management

The components of a virtual machine

Content library

Importing and exporting VMs

VM Resource Management

VM Resource Management

Virtual machine resource management

Virtual machine migration

Resource pools and vApps

Network and storage resources

Availability and Disaster Recovery

Availability and Disaster Recovery

VMware vSphere HA

VMware vSphere FT

Virtual machine clustering

Virtual machine backup

VMware vSphere Replication

Disaster recovery and disaster avoidance

VMware solutions

Securing and Protecting Your Environment

Securing and Protecting Your Environment

Security and hardening concepts in vSphere

Authentication and identity

Active directory integration

vCenter Server, ESXi, and VM hardening

Encryption options of the vSphere

Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment

Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment

Monitoring a virtual environment

VM optimization

vRealize Operations

Other monitoring tools

Troubleshooting Your Environment

Troubleshooting Your Environment

What is troubleshooting?

Troubleshooting a virtual environment

Troubleshooting vSphere components

Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab

Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab

The importance of lifelong learning

Choosing the right platform

Software components and licensing

Architecture and logical design

A detailed implementation guide

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Virtual machine migration

In vSphere 6.7, VMs can be moved from one host or storage to another using hot or cold migration. Wherever possible, hot migration is the preferred option to use to avoid service disruption because it performs a live migration of the VMs:

Hot migration: A powered-on VM can be moved to a different host or datastore without service disruption using the vMotion or Storage vMotion features.
Cold migration: This is the migration of a powered-off or suspended VM. You can move associated disks from one datastore to another and VMs are not required to be on shared storage. A cold migration can be performed manually or by scheduling a task.

There are two types of vMotion:

Compute vMotion (otherwise known as standard vMotion) is responsible for migrating active state (the content of VM memory) between two ESXi hosts
Storage vMotion (SvMotion) is responsible...