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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

VUM

The VUM service is a tool that allows you to efficiently manage patches and updates for VM, hosts, and vApps that are installed in the virtual environment. In comparison to previous versions, VUM no longer requires the installation of an additional external Windows server. This is because, since vSphere 6.5, the Update Manager server and client components have become part of the vCSA.

VUM is installed during the vCSA installation, and it's enabled by default. VUM uses a PostgreSQL database that is bundled with the appliance to store its data. Although both vCenter Server and VUM share the same PostgreSQL database, they use a different database instance.

In vSphere 6.7, a Windows-based Update Manager 6.7 instance cannot be connected to vCSA 6.7 during the installation procedure because it will fail with an error.

If Update Manager doesn't have access to the internet...