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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization product suite that helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises cloud infrastructures, providing for the automation and orchestration of workload deployment and life cycle management of the infrastructure. This book focuses on the latest release of VMware vSphere and follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on instructions required to deploy and manage a vSphere environment. The book starts with the procedures involved in upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to vSphere 6.5, followed by deploying a new vSphere 6.5 environment. Then the book delves further into the procedures involved in managing storage and network access to the ESXi hosts and the virtual machines running on them. Moving on, the book covers high availability and fair distribution/utilization of clustered compute and storage resources. Finally, the book covers patching and upgrading the vSphere infrastructure using VUM, certificate management using VMCA, and finishes with a chapter covering the tools that can be used to monitor the performance of a vSphere infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Duplicating Host Profiles

An existing Host Profile can be cloned to create a duplicate of the same. This can be achieved by using the duplicate Host Profile operation. Duplicating a Host Profile will not retain the hosts that were attached to the source profile.

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the steps involved in duplicating a Host Profile.

  1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client and use the key combination Ctrl + Alt + 1 to navigate to the inventory home.
  2. At the inventory home, click on Host Profiles and click on Duplicate Host Profile...:
  1. On the Duplicate Host Profile wizard, supply a Name and an optional Description and click Next to continue.
  2. On the Ready to complete screen, click Finish...