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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)

vCenter Server components

vCenter Server is a service that centralizes the management of the ESXi hosts and the VM that run on the hypervisor. This vSphere core component interacts not only with ESXi hypervisors, but also integrates with other VMware products—vRealize Automation, Site Recovery Manager, and vSphere Update Manager, just to give you some examples.

vCenter Server is not limited to act as a central management tool only. The advanced features such as sign-on server (SSO), centralized authentication, vMotion, DRS, HA, and FT are all services that come into play only when vCenter Server is present in the infrastructure. With vCenter Server, you have the capability to manage resources, ESXi hosts, VM, templates, logs and stats, alarms and events, and so on. In addition, vCenter Server provides all the functionalities needed to distribute and manage the network services...