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VMware vCenter Cookbook

By : Kostantin Kuminsky
Book Image

VMware vCenter Cookbook

By: Kostantin Kuminsky

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware vCenter Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Improving Environment Manageability

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Categorizing objects in the environment

  • Scheduling the VM clone

  • Redirecting VMkernel dumps to another server

  • Gathering network traffic

  • VDS configuration backup and restore

  • Management network configuration recovery

  • Choosing a MAC address prefix

  • Getting familiar with the new CLI

  • Configuring the firewall from CLI

  • Bypassing "hostd" when it's unresponsive with CLI