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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)

Using the vCenter Convergence Tool

Starting with vSphere 6.7, there is no need to externalize the PSC for ELM, thereby making it simpler to protect vCenter Servers using vCenter High Availability (vCHA). However, if your existing environment has external PSCs, then upgrading them to vCenter 6.7 will retain the same topology.

With vCenter 6.7 Update 1, VMware includes a Convergence Tool, which can be used to install PSC components into existing VCSA 6.7U1 nodes and migrate the PSC configuration from the external PSCs into it, thereby getting rid of the external PSC nodes.

PSC 6.7 U1 (Windows) cannot be converted into embedded components of an existing vCenter. The Convergence Tools only work with vCenter and PSC Appliances.

At the time of the release of this book, the most recent version is vCenter 6.7 U2. Update 2 includes a GUI version of the Convergence Tool. However, the catch...