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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

VM optimization

VM configuration is one of the most crucial decisions you can make in your environment. There are several recommendations and best practices that you should follow to optimize your VM hardware and improve the performance of the infrastructure.

These recommendations are generic, and at your environment, you might not apply all of them. There is nothing like a golden rule here, but the first recommendation is to know your workloads.

Using the default VM templates

Based on the guest OS you want to run inside the VM, make sure you have selected the best possible virtual hardware. VMware optimizes the default VM templates, so you should stick with them.

Based on the OS family and the guest OS version, the wizard...