vSphere components ESXi and vCenter Server form the foundation of any modern day data center that is virtualized using VMware. Planning the deployment of these components and its execution is important as it forms the base for any other solution. We reviewed how scalable ESXi 6.5 is when compared to ESXi 5.5 or 6.0 in the previous chapter. Also, as mentioned in the previous chapter, there is no practical reason to use a Microsoft Windows Server to host vCenter and its components any longer. The vCenter appliance is the future, and with vSphere 6.5, VCSA is not a fully functional appliance with VUM integrated into it. For the same reason, we will not cover the installation of vCenter on a Windows server in this chapter.
VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition
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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)
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Upgrading to vSphere 6.5
Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5
Using vSphere Host Profiles
Using ESXi Image Builder
Using vSphere Auto Deploy
Using vSphere Standard Switches
Using vSphere Distributed Switches
Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore
Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage
Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability
Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager
Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility
Using vSphere Management Assistant
Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment
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