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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)

Downloading an ESXi offline bundle

You cannot use the ESXi installer ISO as an offline bundle. The ESXi offline bundle has to be downloaded separately.

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you to download the ESXi offline bundle:

  1. Navigate to the VMware's download portal at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.
  1. At the downloads page, using the search field to look up ESXi 6.5; use the hyperlink from the search result to get to the ESXi 6.5 downloads page:
  1. Download VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Offline Bundle:
  1. The file downloaded will be a ZIP archive.