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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)

Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure

This chapter describes how to plan a virtualization project and build a good infrastructure, by providing an approach both for the planning and the design; from how to map business requirements to technical requirements to how to move from a conceptual design to a logical and physical design.

To support those phase, are suggested different methodologies and different documents such as best practices, reference architectures, and guidelines.

In this chapter, we will learn how to:

  • Approach a virtual infrastructure project
  • Understand business requirements, constraints, and risks
  • Perform conceptual, logical, and physical designs
  • Use best practices, reference architectures, and validate designs in the right a proper way
  • Approach different scenarios—SMB, ROBO enterprise