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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright

Overview of this book

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Backing up the vCenter Server components

vCenter and its components have become a critical piece of the virtual infrastructure. The vCenter Server is no longer just a management interface. Provisioning, protection, and the overall availability of the environment rely on vCenter Server availabilty.

To recover the vCenter Server components in the event of an outage that results in data loss or data corruption, it is necessary to make backups of the databases and the vCenter Server configurations. The PSC and vCenter Server each have specific configuration information that should be backed up.

The frequency of backups depends on the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) that has been defined for the management environment. The time to recover the vCenter Server, or the Recovery Time Objective (RTO), is also a critical piece of designing a vCenter backup strategy. The RPO defines the maximum...