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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization product suite that helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises cloud infrastructures, providing for the automation and orchestration of workload deployment and life cycle management of the infrastructure. This book focuses on the latest release of VMware vSphere and follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on instructions required to deploy and manage a vSphere environment. The book starts with the procedures involved in upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to vSphere 6.5, followed by deploying a new vSphere 6.5 environment. Then the book delves further into the procedures involved in managing storage and network access to the ESXi hosts and the virtual machines running on them. Moving on, the book covers high availability and fair distribution/utilization of clustered compute and storage resources. Finally, the book covers patching and upgrading the vSphere infrastructure using VUM, certificate management using VMCA, and finishes with a chapter covering the tools that can be used to monitor the performance of a vSphere infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Enabling stateless caching

In continuation of the previous recipe, an administrator can control if the ESXi hosts boots from the auto deploy on every instance of reboot, or perform an installation through auto deploy and have subsequent reboots to load image from disks. The option to toggle between stateless and stateful is performed by amending the host profile setting. In this recipe, we shall walk through the steps to enable stateless caching.

How to do it...

  1. Log in to vCenter Server.
  2. Navigate to Home | Host Profiles.
  3. Select the host profile and click on Edit host profile.
  1. Expand Advanced Configuration Settings and navigate to System Image Cache Configuration as shown here:
  1. Select on Enable stateless caching on the...