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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

Network and storage resources

vSphere 6.7 includes additional resource management features that are useful for optimizing the virtual infrastructure performance and the efficiency of hardware components, such as storage devices and network resources.

Network resources can be allocated and controlled through the vSphere Network I/O Control feature to solve situations of resource contention. Network resources were discussed in Chapter 7, Managing Networking Resources.

Storage I/O Control (SIOC), Storage DRS (SDRS), Storage-Based Policy Management (SBPF), and other storage-related features (they were covered in Chapter 8, Managing Storage Resources), are used to control and optimize storage performance and resource availability.

From the single VM perspective, the configuration is the same as with computing resources. You can configure reservations, limits, and shares for both network...