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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)

Introduction to NSX

In the last part of this chapter, we will be describing NSX technologies. This SDN part and SDDC concepts are very important for the complete path to the SDDC solution. VMware NSX is a network virtualization platform.

NSX is possible to use very fast because it is used with all vendors (physical networking) and only must be possible with a MTU set as 1,600 and higher for transport network. NSX network hypervisor reproduces a complete set of L2–L7 network services as a logical switching, routing, firewall, and load balancing in software.

NSX components

NSX architecture has three different layers—management plane, control plane, and data plane.

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