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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By : Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
Book Image

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 ESXi

When the installation of the ESXi host is complete, there is some configuration you need to do to connect the hypervisor with the network infrastructure. There are also other suggested configurations that you should perform after a clean installation of the ESXi hypervisor.

In this section, we'll walk through the main settings that you should configure.

Management network configuration

By default, ESXi is configured to receive the IP address for the management console through the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). If no DHCP server is present in your network, the hypervisor doesn't obtain an IP, and you won't be able to connect.

Assigning a dynamic IP address to ESXi is not a recommended...