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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

Chapter 11: Availability and Disaster Recovery

  1. (a) True
  2. (a) Network heartbeat, (d) Storage heartbeat
  1. Storage heartbeats are used only when the network heartbeats have failed. Each host will create a specific file on the shared datastore that can be accessed by all other ESXi hosts. This file, host-XXXX-hb, is an empty file. The corresponding ESXi hypervisor exclusively opens that. If the ESXi hypervisor loses access to the storage, the master ESXi node will discover that the lock from the file disappears, meaning that the host has lost access to the storage and an HA event will occur.
  2. (b) False
  3. (a) Slot Policy, (c) Cluster resource percentage, (d) Dedicated failover host
  4. Storage vMotion, Linked clones, VMCP, Virtual volume datastores, Storage-based policy management, Snapshots
  5. (b) False
  6. Maximum support of 2 vCPUs (Standard Edition) and 4 vCPUs (Enterprise Plus Edition). Performance...