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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

Configuring ESXi host logging


Having access to the ESXi host logs is required in order to troubleshoot or determine the root cause of an ESXi host failure. Redirecting host logs to persistent storage or to a Syslog server is especially important when a host has not been installed to persistent storage, for example, a stateless host deployed using vSphere Auto Deploy or a host that has been installed to a USB stick.

Logging may not seem to be a key component in disaster recovery. Having a proper backup of the host configuration allows a host to be quickly returned to a service. However, if the root cause of the failure cannot be determined, preventing the failure from happening again cannot be guaranteed. Logs are the best source to perform analyses in order to determine the root cause of a failure and determine the best course of action required to prevent future failures.

How to do it…

ESXi logs should be redirected to the persistent storage or sent to a central Syslog server in order to ensure...