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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)

Configuring vCenter mail, SNMP, and alarms

Alarms can be used to notify an administrator of issues (or potential issues) in a vSphere environment. This notification allows an administrator to take corrective actions. Alarms can be configured to send email notifications and/or SMNP traps when conditions are triggered. Alarm definitions contain a trigger and an action. Triggers include issues like hardware failures, or states like increased CPU or memory utilization.

Properly designing alarm notifications can ensure successful ongoing operations in a vSphere environment.

How to do it...

The following steps will configure the Mail and SNMP settings for a vCenter Server, and will configure a defined alarm to send an email or SNMP...