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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease. You’ll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you’ll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you’ll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we’ll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you’ll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

vSphere 6.5 simplifies and enhances the capabilities for patching and upgrading ESXi hosts and vCSAs. vSphere 6.5 introduces a lot of new features and improvements, such as the vCSA with the integrated VUM, vCenter HA, and so on, that make migration to the latest release a recommended task.

The VUM service is now fully integrated in the vCSA and no longer requires an additional external Windows server. The embedded VUM can also benefit from the vCenter HA feature for redundancy. VUM is enabled by default and only a minor configuration is required to have a system ready to handle patches and upgrade tasks. This chapter will discuss how to patch ESXi hosts using the command line when no vCenter Servers are available in the network.

vSphere 6.5 includes a migration tool that allows administrators to easily and quickly upgrade from version...