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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

This chapter has covered a general overview of modern data center concepts as well as all key products and solutions from VMware.

In this chapter, we also covered VMware Cloud on AWS, a new option for utilizing VMware vSphere infrastructure as a service, its benefits, and guidance for migration from on-premises infrastructure.

We have also looked at new features of the vSphere 6.7 suite, comparing its evolution with the previous releases, and we have covered the differences between the most commonly used VMware vSphere editions currently available.

Finally, in this chapter, we have explained why you should or should not choose to upgrade to vSphere 6.7, and we have also briefly touched on upgrade paths from previous versions.

In the next chapter, we will focus on how to plan a virtualization project in order to build a proper infrastructure solution and reliable data center...