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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)

Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches

Networking is the backbone of any infrastructure, be it virtual or physical. It enables connections between various infrastructure components. When it comes to traditional server-side networking components, we often talk about one or more physical adapters cabled to a physical switch. But things would slightly change when you install a hypervisor on a server and run a virtual machine a top. So why and what should change?

First, now that we can create virtual machines on the hypervisor, each of the virtual machines would need a network identity to enable it to become part of a network. Therefore, we create vNICs on the virtual machine, which will appear as network adapters to the guest operating system (Windows/Linux) that runs inside the virtual machine.

Now that we have taken care of the network connection for the virtual...