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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

Upgrading VM virtual hardware


The virtual machine hardware version or virtual machine compatibility specifies the version of virtual machine hardware presented to the virtual machines and the ESXi versions that the virtual machine is then compatible to run on. Updating the virtual machine hardware exposes new features available to virtual machines—for example, the ability to provision vmdks up to 62 TB—and ensures that the virtual hardware is optimized to the version of ESXi.

How to do it…

To upgrade the virtual hardware of a virtual machine, perform the following steps:

  1. Install or update VMware Tools in the virtual machine.

  2. Edit the settings of a virtual machine and access the Virtual Hardware tab.

  3. If a virtual hardware upgrade is available, the Upgrade option will be available. Select Schedule VM Compatibility Upgrade, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Set the compatibility level the virtual hardware should be upgraded to, as shown here:

  5. Shut down and power on the virtual machine to upgrade...