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VMware ESXi Cookbook

By : Mohammed Raffic Kajamoideen, Aravind Sivaraman
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VMware ESXi Cookbook

By: Mohammed Raffic Kajamoideen, Aravind Sivaraman

Overview of this book

<p>VMware ESX and VMware ESXi hypervisors are used for providing the foundation for building and managing a virtualized IT infrastructure. vSphere 5.1 delivers the same industry-leading performance and scalability as prior vSphere releases, with several additional benefits including its improved reliability and security. VMware vSphere 5.1 is based on the ESXi hypervisor architecture, a thin purpose-built hypervisor that does not depend on a general purpose operating system, which does away with the requirement of persistent storage. So we can now store it on a dedicated compact storage device, drastically reducing the hypervisor install footprint to less than 150MB.</p> <p>"VMware ESXi 5.1 Cookbook" explores every aspect of VMware administration. We will learn to configure and to administer vSphere including high availability (HA), distributed resource scheduler (DRS), fault tolerance (FT), vMotion , svMotion, virtual machine provisioning, update manager, and distributed virtual switches. We will also explore advanced level operations with lots of tips and tricks to ease your job.</p> <p>"VMware ESXi 5.1 Cookbook" offers a comprehensive understanding of new features released with vSphere 5.1 and how it enhances your VMware virtual environment. Starting with the installation and configuration of ESXi and vCenter and followed by the configuration of various core components including the network, storage, virtual machine administration, security, performance, and patching, along with the high availability of the virtual infrastructure.</p> <p>Also exploring how the vSphere environment can be secured, learn to monitor your virtual environment using default alarms available with the vCenter server and to collect performance reports for your vSphere environment.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware ESXi Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Jason Langer works as a solutions architect for VMware Partner in the Pacific Northwest helping customers achieve their datacenter virtualization and end user computing goals. Jason has obtained multiple levels of certification both from Microsoft (MCSE/MCSA) and VMware (VCP/VCAP) and brings 15 years of IT experience that spans large enterprise and SMB. When not working during the day, he is active in the VMware community as a member of the Seattle VMUG Steering Committee, on Twitter (@jaslanger), and generating content for his blog (www.virtuallanger.com).

He is also the technical reviewer of the following books:

  • VMware Horizon View 5.3 Design Patterns and Best Practices, Jason Ventresco, Packt Publishing

  • Troubleshooting vSphere Storage, Mike Preston, Packt Publishing

Alexzander Nepomnjashiy is an independent consultant and freelancer. He is particularly interested in the following IT technologies: Windows Server OSes administration, Microsoft SQL Servers internals, virtualization (VMware ESXi), OLAP, and business intelligence.

Fernando F. Rodrigues is an IT professional with more than 10 years experience in systems administration, especially with Linux and VMware. He is a system administrator who also focuses on programming (Perl, PowerCLI, Bash, and so on) and is currently learning Ruby and Python. He has experience in projects for the government sector and financial institutions. He is a technology enthusiast and his areas of interest include cloud computing, virtualization, infrastructure automation, Linux administration, and Raspberry Pi.

Timothy Smith has over 15 years experience in system administration and has been working with VMware products almost since the beginning. He is a VMware vExpert, and a VMware certified professional, and holds various Microsoft certifications. As an active blogger (http://tsmith.co), Tim has been actively testing and working with VMware vSphere and giving back helpful articles and posts to the community regarding various problems he has come across.