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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization product suite that helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises cloud infrastructures, providing for the automation and orchestration of workload deployment and life cycle management of the infrastructure. This book focuses on the latest release of VMware vSphere and follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on instructions required to deploy and manage a vSphere environment. The book starts with the procedures involved in upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to vSphere 6.5, followed by deploying a new vSphere 6.5 environment. Then the book delves further into the procedures involved in managing storage and network access to the ESXi hosts and the virtual machines running on them. Moving on, the book covers high availability and fair distribution/utilization of clustered compute and storage resources. Finally, the book covers patching and upgrading the vSphere infrastructure using VUM, certificate management using VMCA, and finishes with a chapter covering the tools that can be used to monitor the performance of a vSphere infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Consolidating snapshots

Snapshot consolidation is a process of committing the content of snapshots to the base disk. Traditionally, snapshots that were managed by third-party backup solutions were prone to mismanagement. This lead to stale snapshot files and other residual files left in the virtual machine directory, and skewed information displayed in the snapshot manager UI. This option eases the troubleshooting and snapshot management effort by ascertaining the virtual machine disk that requires consolidation and providing a UI to consolidate the files.

How to do it...

The following procedure outlines the steps to consolidate the snapshot:

  1. Right-click on the VM, select Snapshots, and click on Consolidate.
  2. Click Yes to...