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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright

Overview of this book

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Selecting a database for the vCenter deployment

The vCenter Server requires a supported database to be deployed to store virtual infrastructure configuration information, logging, and performance statistics. The VCSA and the vCenter Server on Windows both support an embedded or external database.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to select a database for the vCenter deployment:

  1. Estimate the number of hosts and virtual machines that will be managed by the vCenter Server
  2. Choose a supported database platform that is suitable to support the vCenter inventory

How it works...

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