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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 VLANs on vDS

VLAN is a method that you can use to subdivide a network subnet into separate broadcast domains. In a modern-day infrastructure, it is very common to host your business workloads or other components in different VLANs. Both vSS and vDS support the use of VLANs.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you to configure VLAN on a dvPort group:

  1. Connect to vCenter Server using the HTML5 client and go to the Networking inventory view.
  2. Right-click on the desired dvPortGroup and click Edit Settings....
  3. On the Edit Settings window, go to VLAN and set the desired VLAN type (VLAN, VLAN trunking, Private VLAN). Then, click OK:

  1. Setting the VLAN type to VLAN will be required to specify a VLAN number...