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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)

Using the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix

The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix allows you to ensure compatibility between VMware products. It is important to check for compatibility before deploying or upgrading the components of a vSphere environment to ensure support and interoperability between product versions.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to validate the interoperability of VMware products in a vSphere deployment:

  1. Visit https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/sim/interop_matrix.php
  2. Select the Interoperability tab
  3. Under the Select a Solution option, select the VMware product and version from the respective dropdown boxes
  1. Select Add Platform/Solution by using the dropdown box. You can...