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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Abhilash G B
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere is the most comprehensive core suite of SDDC solutions on the market. It helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises private cloud infrastructures. This edition of the book focuses on the latest version, vSphere 6.7. The books starts with chapters covering the greenfield deployment of vSphere 6.7 components and the upgrade of existing vSphere components to 6.7. You will then learn how to configure storage and network access for a vSphere environment. Get to grips with optimizing your vSphere environment for resource distribution and utilization using features such as DRS and DPM, along with enabling high availability for vSphere components using vSphere HA, VMware FT, and VCHA. Then, you will learn how to facilitate large-scale deployment of stateless/stateful ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy. Finally, you will explore how to upgrade/patch a vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager, secure it using SSL certificates, and then monitor its performance with tools such as vSphere Performance Charts and esxtop. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in the core functionalities of vSphere 6.7 and be able to effectively deploy, manage, secure, and monitor your environment.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Trusting root certificates to stop browser security warnings

The root certificates that correspond to the issuing certificate authority, whether it be VMCA or an Enterprise/Commercial PKI, should be trusted by the local computer/domain to get rid of the certificate warning displayed by the browser.

Most common browsers use the Windows Certificate Store, but some browsers, such as Firefox, maintain their own certificate store.

Getting ready

Before you begin, download or procure the root CA certificate from the PKI.

In order to download the VMCA default root certificate, connect to the node running VMCA (PSC/vCenter) by using the https://FQDN URL of vCenter. Then, click Download trusted root CA certificates:

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