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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

By : Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

By: Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware's industry-leading virtual cloud platform. By understanding how to manage, secure, and scale apps with vSphere 6.7, you can easily run even the most demanding of workloads. This Learning Path begins with an overview of the features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You'll learn how to plan and design a virtual infrastructure. You'll also gain insights into best practices to efficiently configure, manage, and secure apps. Next, you'll pick up on how to enhance your infrastructure with high-performance storage access, such as remote direct memory access (RDMA) and Persistent memory. The book will even guide you in securing your network with security features, such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption. Finally, by learning how to apply Proactive High Availability and Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you'll be able to achieve enhanced computing, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run high workloads. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition by Mike Brown and Hersey Cartwright Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition by Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, and Paolo Valsecchi
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Disaster recovery and disaster avoidance

A disaster is any event that halts business activity on a large scale. In most cases, we are talking about natural disasters, but there are also human-made disasters, and all of them can happen at any time without warning.

These disasters could impact technologies and IT services. Of course, there are other and more critical aspects, such as risk to human life, but for Business Continuity(BC), we put the main focus on business-critical services and applications.

DR provides BC in the event of a disaster, and may be just localized on equipment (such as a single server) or globally on an entire site. Business will be recovered by following a specific DR plan; it is just a subset of the Business Continuity Plan (BCP). In the case of a disaster that impacts an entire site or region, usually, the recovery process uses a remote location...