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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)

Storage design

Choosing the right storage according to your needs could be a very long debate without a simple answer, because there are so many different types of storage solutions. As usual, you have to consider availability, scalability, performance, and manageability aspects, including some new capabilities such as data protection, data migration, security, and so on.

Traditional IOPS sizing could be too limited considering that most of the enterprise storage works with concepts more complex, such as data tiering, data reduction, and data locality; for this reason, it's always suggested you make a capacity and performance estimation using vendor-specific tools.

In most cases you will have storage with some flash technologies:

  • AFA (full flash): This is where performance and storage latency could be critical and you want a storage with predictable throughput and latency...