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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

To keep the infrastructure healthy, ESXi hosts and vCenter Servers must be patched on a regular basis.

We covered all three ways of getting vCenter 6.7: upgrading the vCSA, upgrading the vCenter for Windows, and migrating from vCenter for Windows to vCSA.

You have learned that ESXi hosts can be patched and updated using the command line if a vCenter Server is not available in the network using different methods and the automated method using VMware Update Manager was covered as well. Update Manager can be also used to upgrade VMware Tools, hardware version of the VM and Virtual Appliances.

The vCSA itself can be patched and updated using the command line by staging and remediating the mounted ISO image patch file or through the VAMI that provides a visual UI.

The next chapter will focus on virtual ,machines. We will cover the different virtual hardware can be used and...