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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

Virtual networking with switches

Before we jump to the details about vSwitches, we have to understand which critical components of vSphere networking are available. We will dive deeper in to the individual components and the configuration options later on, but for now, let's have a brief look at them:

These are the components as seen in the preceding screenshot:

  • Port groups: This is a logical container that is used to interconnect your VMs. On the port group, you can define to which VLAN a port group belongs, and by default the port group will inherit the configuration from the virtual switch, but you can override such settings if you need to.
  • Virtual switches: In the VMware world, we have two types of virtual switches, which are classified as vNetwork Standard Switch (vSS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS). The vSS is configured on every ESXi host, meaning independently...