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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)

Deleting VMFS datastores

Unlike the unmount operation, a delete operation will destroy all the data on the datastore. Once done, you cannot revert this operation. Hence, ensure that you move all the virtual machine data that is currently on the datastore to another datastore.

Getting ready

Migrate all the virtual machines (regardless of their power state) and their data onto a different datastore. Examine the datastore to make sure that it is empty.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you delete a VMFS volume:

  1. Log in to the vCenter Server using the vSphere...