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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

Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7

This chapter will cover the configurations required by ESXi and vCenter Server to provide services and resources to a virtual machine (VM). We will look at how to set up the hypervisor properly, how to assign the correct IP address, and how to configure a time-synced network to get a working infrastructure.

This chapter will also walk through the configuration of the main parameters and features of vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA), such as single sign-on (SSO), Active Directory (AD), roles, permissions, and more. We'll explore how to manage data centers, clusters, and hosts efficiently using the new vSphere Client (HTML5 client). We will also focus on backing up the configuration of the ESXi hypervisor and vCSA.

The use of PowerCLI and the vSphere REST API are other important topics that will be covered in this chapter, because time-consuming...