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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)

Summary

For the successful deployment of VMware vSphere 6.5, understanding all the involved steps not only ensures the correct sizing of the hardware components, but helps to avoid potential misconfigurations.

This chapter walked-through the core components of vSphere 6.5, explaining the roles and services provided. The ESXi host is responsible for providing resources to workloads while the vCenter Server is used to manage hosts and resource availability. To ensure a successful deployment, a deployment plan must be drawn up in order to define the correct hardware platform to use, storage architecture and protocols, and network configuration.

We explained in detail the different installation methods available to users for vSphere components to finalize the deployment. There are three ways to install ESXi hosts depending on the environment size—interactive installation, unattended...