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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)

Storage basics

There are different types of storage, with different protocols, different architectures, different scaling, different capabilities, and also different purposes.

In a virtual environment, you will need a resilient and reliable storage solution, with the expected performance, that can scale for the future. This can only be possible using enterprise storage products, with some exceptions for the ROBO and SMB scenarios, as discussed in Chapter 2, Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure.

Enterprise-class storage can be classified in different ways, but usually different acronyms are used, such as:

  • Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
  • Network Attached Storage (NAS)
  • Storage Area Network (SAN)
  • Content Addressable Storage (CAS)/Fixed Content Storage (FCS)
  • Object-based storage/cloud storage

For VMware vSphere, the first three storage classes are the most relevant and the...