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VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Hersey Cartwright, kim bottu
Book Image

VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Hersey Cartwright, kim bottu

Overview of this book

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. With the release of 6.x a whole range of new features has come along such as ESXi Security enhancements, fault tolerance, high availability enhancements, and virtual volumes, thus simplifying the secure management of resources, the availability of applications, and performance enhancements of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenter. This book provides recipes to create a virtual datacenter design using the features of vSphere 6.x by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process. You’ll follow steps that walk you through the design process from beginning to end, right from the discovery process to creating the conceptual design; calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design; mapping the logical requirements to a physical design; security design; and finally creating the design documentation. The recipes in this book provide guidance on making design decisions to ensure the successful creation, and ultimately the successful implementation, of a VMware vSphere 6.x virtual data center design.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The ESXi Lockdown mode


Environment security is greatly increased by limiting the ability to directly access ESXi hosts. The Lockdown mode can be enabled when first adding a host to the vCenter inventory, or it can be configured using the vSphere Web Client. The Lockdown mode can be easily disabled and enabled at any time in order to directly access a host, if required, for support or troubleshooting.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to enable the Lockdown Mode option on an ESXi host:

  1. Access the Security Profile menu of the ESXi host using the vSphere Web Client. The following screenshot displays the Lockdown Mode host configuration in the vSphere Web Client:

  2. Select Lockdown Mode for the ESXi host, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Configure Exception Users, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Click on OK to complete the Lockdown Mode configuration.

How it works…

When the lockdown mode is enabled, the host is managed using the vSphere Client connected to the managing vCenter Server...