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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Amidst all the recent competition from Citrix and Microsoft, VMware's vSphere product line is still the most feature rich and futuristic product in the virtualization industry. Knowing how to install and configure vSphere components is important to give yourself a head start towards virtualization using VMware. If you want to quickly grasp the installation and configuration procedures, especially by using the new vSphere 5.1 web client, this book is for you.VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook will take you through all the steps required to accomplish a task with minimal reading required. Most of the tasks are accompanied with relevant screenshots with an intention to provide a visual guidance as well.The book has many useful recipes that will help you progress through the installation of VMware ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. You will learn to use Auto Deploy and Image Profiles to deploy stateless/stateful ESXi servers, configure failover protection for virtual machines using vSphere HA, configure automated load balancing using vSphere DRS and DPM. Finally, the book guides you through upgrading or patching ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager and also deploying and configuring vSphere Management Assistant (VMA) to be able to run scripts to manage the ESXi servers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring a VM to override host monitoring and VM monitoring settings


It is possible to configure a virtual machine to override the host monitoring and VM monitoring settings. The settings are overridden by creating VM overrides.

The settings that can be overridden are as follows:

  • VM restart priority

  • Host isolation response

  • VM monitoring and monitoring sensitivity

How to do it...

The following procedure explains how to configure VM(s) to override HA cluster settings:

  1. From the vCenter's Home inventory, navigate to the Hosts and Clusters view.

  2. Select the cluster and navigate to Manage | Settings | VM Overrides.

  3. On the VM Overrides page, click on the Add button to bring up the Add VM Overrides window.

  4. In the Add VM Overrides window, click on the green + icon to bring up the Select a VM window.

  5. In the Select a VM window, select a virtual machine and click on OK.

  6. With the VM now added to the Add VM Overrides window, modify the settings for the selected VM, and click on OK.