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vSphere Virtual Machine Management

By : Rebecca Fitzhugh
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By: Rebecca Fitzhugh

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vSphere Virtual Machine Management
Rebecca Fitzhugh
Mar, 2014 | 326 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
vSphere Virtual Machine Management
vSphere Virtual Machine Management
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Virtual Machine Concepts
Virtual Machine Concepts
vSphere virtual machines
Virtual machine components
Uses of virtual machines
The primary virtual machine resources
Virtual machine files
VMware Tools
Summary
2
Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard
Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard
vSphere Client versus vSphere Web Client
Creating a VM using the typical configuration wizard
Creating a VM using the custom configuration wizard
Creating a VM using vSphere Web Client
Summary
3
Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine
Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine
Configuring virtual machine customizations
Creating a virtual machine from a template
Creating a virtual machine by cloning
Creating a virtual machine from an OVF file
Creating a virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter
Summary
4
Advanced Virtual Machine Settings
Advanced Virtual Machine Settings
Introducing the virtual machine monitor
Enabling CPU hot plug / memory hot add
The CPUID mask
The CPU affinity setting
Setting the .vswp location
Viewing other advanced options
Installing VMware Tools
Summary
5
Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps
Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps
What is a vApp?
Creating a vApp
vApp options
Exporting a vApp
Cloning a vApp
Summary
6
Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation
Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation
Resource performance concepts
Understanding resource controls
Resource pools
Network I/O Control
Storage I/O Control
Disk alignment
Performance tuning
Summary
7
Monitoring Virtual Machines
Monitoring Virtual Machines
Performance charts
Using esxtop
Using alarms
Other places to find information
Summary
8
Migrating Virtual Machines
Migrating Virtual Machines
vMotion
Migration using Storage vMotion
Cross-host Storage vMotion
Summary
9
Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability
Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability
Clusters
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
High Availability
Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS)
Summary
10
Virtual Machine Design
Virtual Machine Design
Comparing provisioning methods
Virtual hardware and resource configuration
Other considerations
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

A vMotion network is required for vMotion and cross-host Storage vMotion. Configuring a VMkernel port on each ESXi host for vMotion traffic creates this network. Migration using vMotion moves a virtual machine's state to a different ESXi host with no downtime while the virtual machine is actively running. Migration using Storage vMotion moves a virtual machine's files to a different datastore with no downtime while the virtual machine is actively running. A virtual machine can change host and datastore simultaneously while powered on using a cross-host Storage vMotion. Cross-host Storage vMotion is only available using the vSphere Web Client with platform Version 5.1 or newer.

The next chapter will discuss cluster features such as DRS, Storage DRS, and High Availability.

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