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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)

Disaster recovery (DR)

A disaster is any event that halts business activity on a large scale. In most cases, we are thinking about natural disasters, but there are also man-made disasters and all of them can happen at any time without warning. Technologies and all IT services could be impacted by these kinds of disasters. Of course, there are other and more important aspects; like human life that can also be at risk, but for BC, we put the main focus on the business-critical services and applications.

DR provides BC in the event of a disaster, and may be just localized on equipment (like a single server) or globally on an entire site. Business will be recovered by following a specific DR plan; it is just a subset of the BCP. In the worst case of a disaster that impacts an entire site or region, usually, the recovery process uses a remote location called a disaster recovery site...