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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)

Upgrading vCenter Server

Today, most environments will already contain at least some virtualization. A vSphere design will likely involve upgrading an existing environment to enable new features to meet new requirements for availability, security, performance, and manageability.

The management environment for vSphere has become more complex. The vCenter Server and its components have become a critical part of the environment. In the virtualized data center, the vCenter Server is no longer just a management interface; it also provides provision, availability, security, and other services. Other vSphere and third-party components require vCenter Server to operate correctly. Because of this, upgrading a vCenter Server must be planned correctly.

How to do it...

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