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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By : Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By: Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, virtual cloud platform. It allows organisations to move to hybrid cloud computing by enabling them to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment. This up-to-date, 2nd edition provides complete coverage of vSphere 6.7. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, you will begin with an overview of the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You’ll learn how to design and plan a virtual infrastructure and look at the workflow and installation of components. You'll gain insight into best practice configuration, management and security. By the end the book you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run even the most demanding of workloads.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
8
Section 2: Managing Resources
13
Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed VMs, a software computer composed by a file structure that specifies the configuration (.vmx) and the virtual disk used to store data (.vmdk) and core components, such as virtual and hardware resources, an OS, and Virtual Machine Tools. A VM can be deployed using different methods depending on the features requested. The use of a content library can simplify the deployment process, and it allows you to easily subscribe to a central content library from your remote sites to have unified access to the installation ISO files and OVF templates.

We have seen that, once installed, a VM can be added or removed from the inventory that keeps the VM data. Snapshots can be used to capture the state of a VM at a specific point in time so that we can quickly revert to a working version if necessary. A typical use case of snapshots is the patching process...