Much like vNIC is a network interface for a virtual machine, a VMkernel interface acts as a network interface for VMkernel. The very first VMkernel interface—vmk0 is created during the installation of ESXi. This interface is the management interface for the ESXi host. VMware allows you to create a maximum of 256 (vmk0—vmk255) VMkernel interfaces on an ESXi host. ESXi uses VMkernel interfaces for management traffic, VMotion traffic, FT traffic, virtual SAN traffic, iSCSI, and NAS interfaces. Since each interface acts as a network node point, it will need an IP configuration and a MAC address. The first VMkernel interface (vmk0) will procure the MAC address of the physical NIC it is connected to. The remaining interfaces pick up the VMware OUI MAC address generated by the ESXi host. In this section, we will...
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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