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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)

Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing

Virtualization is normally used to provide workload consolidation, but this means, without the right resource management, just blending everything together; this could become a risk, like putting all your eggs in one basket without taking any precautions. In addition, all shared components of your infrastructure will most likely be affected in some way by this big change (for example, the storage or the network). Moreover, standard procedures such as monitoring, backups, patching, and administration will be also affected.

As a good practice, before virtualizing an existing environment, you need to assess all parts of your infrastructure not just the servers you plan to virtualize to uncover any potential problems or hurdles that may impact your project. The old woodworking rule measure twice, cut once also applies to information...