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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)

Virtual networking

In VMware world, we have two types of virtual switches which are classified as vNetwork Standard Switch (vSS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS).

What is the difference between vSS and vDS? When to use vSS or vDS? The vSS is configured on every ESXi host, meaning independently on each ESXi host in your environment. The vDS managed from a vCenter Server manages at the datacenter level. This idea is better because your administration takes place all in one place.

The virtual switch is a software construct running in the VMkernel. The virtual switch provides two types of connectivity to the VM (VM port group) and the hypervisor services (VMkernel ports).

vSS

The following figure shows a basic configuration...