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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)

Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment

Sometimes, you have to find a simple and effective way to analyze an existing environment; this task could become a crucial aspect of your system that must be properly planned and executed.

These are some situations in which you may need to analyze an existing environment:

  • Before planning a virtualization project: Before starting on your virtualization journey, it is important to really understand your current IT infrastructure and how it will be impacted by the virtualization process; this is not only to clarify whether virtualization is possible but also to match or better transform the existing procedures in the new environment.
  • Before a migration: It doesn't matter whether we are talking about an entire platform migration, a migration from one hypervisor to another, or simply a migration across vSphere (maybe different...