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VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Hersey Cartwright, kim bottu
Book Image

VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Hersey Cartwright, kim bottu

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. With the release of 6.x a whole range of new features has come along such as ESXi Security enhancements, fault tolerance, high availability enhancements, and virtual volumes, thus simplifying the secure management of resources, the availability of applications, and performance enhancements of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenter. This book provides recipes to create a virtual datacenter design using the features of vSphere 6.x by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process. You’ll follow steps that walk you through the design process from beginning to end, right from the discovery process to creating the conceptual design; calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design; mapping the logical requirements to a physical design; security 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.x virtual data center design.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using private VLANs


Private VLANs (PVLANs) are an extension of the VLAN standard. PVLANs can be configured on virtual distributed switches in order to isolate traffic between virtual machines in the same VLAN.

How to do it…

  1. Identify the types of PVLANs available and the functionalities of each.

  2. Determine the use cases for the PVLANs and identify whether the PVLANs can be used to satisfy the design requirements.

  3. Design the PVLANs to meet the design requirements.

How it works…

A primary PVLAN is created on a vDSwitch, and secondary PVLANs are associated with the primary PVLAN. There are three types of secondary PVLAN: Promiscuous, Community, and Isolated. They are depicted in the following diagram:

The virtual machine connections in a Promiscuous PVLAN can communicate with all the virtual machine connections in the same primary PVLAN. When a primary PVLAN is created, a Promiscuous PVLAN is created with the same PVLAN ID as the primary PVLAN.

Virtual machine connections in a Community PVLAN can communicate...