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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)

Monitoring a virtual environment

How can we monitor the environment? You can use two ways: the first from a OS VM perspective and the second from a third-party tools perspective.

We can use two views to monitor the environment:

  • Inside the Guest OS tools: Task Manager or top
  • Outside the Guest OS tools: vCenter Server performance charts or esxtop

As per my point of view and experience, CLI is better and more helpful than GUI tools. However, of course, you can find any GUI that you love.

CLI usage

CLI is the most useful option for TRBL. There are a lot of CLIs available that are used for TRBL in a VMware environment:

  • vSphere ESXi shell: esxcli which is the new CLI
  • vSphere command-line interface vCLI: esxcfg-* which is the...