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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
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Section 1: Getting Started
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Section 2: Managing Resources
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Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

Disaster recovery and disaster avoidance

A disaster is any event that halts business activity on a large scale. In most cases, we are talking about natural disasters, but there are also human-made disasters, and all of them can happen at any time without warning.

These disasters could impact technologies and IT services. Of course, there are other and more critical aspects, such as risk to human life, but for Business Continuity(BC), we put the main focus on business-critical services and applications.

DR provides BC in the event of a disaster, and may be just localized on equipment (such as a single server) or globally on an entire site. Business will be recovered by following a specific DR plan; it is just a subset of the Business Continuity Plan (BCP). In the case of a disaster that impacts an entire site or region, usually, the recovery process uses a remote location called...