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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)

Deploying vCenter Servers in Enhanced Linked Mode

In large environments, there can be more than one vCenter Server deployed to manage resources; it is beneficial to view all the vCenter inventories from a single management plane. This can be achieved using Enhanced Linked Mode.

Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM) enables the linking of more than one vCenter Server, be it vCenter installed on a Windows machine or the VCSA. Although it is referred to as a method to link vCenter Servers together, the actual linking happens between the PSCs the vCenters are connected to. It is done by making the PSCs join a single SSO domain. This is a requirement. The PSCs in the same SSO domain will replicate roles and permissions, licenses, and other details, letting the administrator perform a single login into the vSphere Web Client to view and manage inventory objects of all the linked vCenter Servers...