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vSphere High Performance Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Kevin Elder, Christopher Kusek, Prasenjit Sarkar
Book Image

vSphere High Performance Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Kevin Elder, Christopher Kusek, Prasenjit Sarkar

Overview of this book

vSphere is a mission-critical piece of software for many businesses. It is a complex tool, and incorrect design and deployment can create performance related issues that can negatively affect the business. This book is focused on solving these problems as well as providing best practices and performance-enhancing techniques. This edition is fully updated to include all the new features in version 6.5 as well as the latest tools and techniques to keep vSphere performing at its best. This book starts with interesting recipes, such as the interaction of vSphere 6.5 components with physical layers such as CPU, memory, and networking. Then we focus on DRS, resource control design, and vSphere cluster design. Next, you’ll learn about storage performance design and how it works with VMware vSphere 6.5. Moving on, you will learn about the two types of vCenter installation and the benefits of each. Lastly, the book covers performance tools that help you get the most out of your vSphere installation. By the end of this book, you will be able to identify, diagnose, and troubleshoot operational faults and critical performance issues in vSphere 6.5.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Adding VCSA to your Windows domain and adding users


If your company runs on a Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain, then allowing administrators to use their AD credentials to access the VCSA is critical to the security of the VCSA as well as simplifying admin access. When you add your VCSA to the AD domain, you can give permissions to AD groups, then manage the membership in AD instead of the VCSA.

When running the vCenter Server on Windows, this process is very straightforward as the vCenter Server is most likely already joined to the AD domain. Since the VCSA is Linux-based, it most likely will not be joined to the AD domain.

If you are running an external PSC, then the PSC will be added to the AD domain instead of the VCSA. In this recipe, we will join the PSC to the AD domain, then set up user authentication to the AD domain.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running VCSA that has network access to an AD domain and vSphere Web Client. No other prerequisites are...