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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.

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer Support
Free Chapter
1
Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite
Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite
VMware and vSphere background
VMware vSphere as a Cloud Foundation
VMware vSphere as an infrastructure foundation
What's new on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere limits?
Summary
2
Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure
Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure
Plan a virtual infrastructure project
Assess
Design
Different scenarios
Summary
3
Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment
Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment
Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing
Assessment of an existing virtual environment
Summary
4
Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
vSphere components and workflow
ESXi deployment plan
ESXi installation
vCenter Server components
vCenter Server deployment
vCSA deployment
Summary
5
Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5
Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere HTML5 client
ESXi configuration
vCSA configuration
Managing data centers, clusters, and hosts
Automating tasks with scripts
Summary
6
Advanced Network Management
Advanced Network Management
Basic overview
Virtual networking
Introduction to NSX
Summary
7
Advanced Storage Management
Advanced Storage Management
Storage basics
The evolution of the storage world
VMware vSphere storage types
VMware vSphere storage configuration
Storage features
Storage integration
Storage design
Introduction to HCI and vSAN
Caching with vSphere Flash Read Cache
Summary
8
Advanced VM and Resource Management
Advanced VM and Resource Management
VM components
Deploying VMs
Managing VMs
Resource management
VM migration
Converting VMs
Summary
9
Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting
Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting
What is troubleshooting?
Monitoring a virtual environment
Logs
Troubleshooting
Summary
10
Securing and Protecting Your Environment
Securing and Protecting Your Environment
Regulations and compliance
Security and hardening concepts in vSphere
New security options in vSphere 6.5
Summary
11
Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading
Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading
Updating or patching ESXi hosts and vCSAs
VUM
Upgrading and migrating to vSphere 6.5
Summary
12
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
BC concepts
Disaster recovery (DR)
VMware solutions
Summary
13
Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5
Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere HA
VMware vSphere FT
VMware vCenter High Availability (VCHA)
VMware vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Summary
14
Data and Workloads Protection
Data and Workloads Protection
Backup technologies
File-based backup of the vCSA
Protecting the workloads
Summary

ESXi installation

Once you have defined the hardware platform and the storage and network setup, you are ready to deploy the ESXi host. The installation is pretty simple and takes only a few minutes. The latest release of vSphere made an important enhancement in terms of security, introducing a new feature for the hypervisor—secure boot. Secure boot is a solution that ensures that only trusted code is loaded by the EFI firmware before the OS boots. The trust is given by the UEFI firmware that validates the digitally signed ESXi kernel against a digital certificate stored in the UEFI firmware.

Once you have defined the design of the virtual infrastructure, you should evaluate which installation option is suitable for your environment. vSphere 6.5 offers three options to deploy ESXi:

  • Interactive: Manually providing answers to installation options
  • Unattended: Using installation...
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