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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
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Section 2: Managing Resources
13
Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

VMware vSphere ecosystem

As well as the well-known vSphere product line, VMware has plenty of products available today. Let's have a look at the different segments that VMware currently covers.

Data centers and cloud computing

VMware vSphere is a flagship in VMware's portfolio. However, there has been a rise in popularity of other products, as enterprise companies already broadly adopted VMware vSphere as a virtualization platform.

VMware vSphere has been around for more than 15 years now (the first version of a vCenter server with vMotion was released in 2003), yet with every new release, there are significant improvements.

Gartner named VMware as a leader in x86 virtualization Gartner's Magic Quadrant (MQ...