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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)

VMware vSphere storage configuration

For shared storage, the ESXi configuration varies a lot depending both on the storage type and the protocols used. There is a specific guide from VMware, but what's more important is to follow the specific storage vendor guides, including possible reference architectures or configuration suggestions.

Storage FC

FC is an entire high-speed network stack used to implement storage area networks. Starting with vSphere 6.0U2, ESXi supports 32 Gbps FC for all the supported HBA.

When using ESXi with FC SAN, follow the recommendations and best practices of both VMware and the storage vendor to avoid possible issues. Note that storage vendor specifications could be more restrictive than VMware...