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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

Installing the Auto Deploy server


The Auto Deploy server software component is available on the vCenter Server installation DVD. The installation can be initiated from the installation Welcome screen.

How to do it…

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to install Auto Deploy server.

You can start the installation wizard by clicking on the Install button on the vSphere installation DVD welcome screen, to bring up the vSphere Auto Deploy install wizard. Click on Next to continue.

  1. Accept the EULA.

  2. Choose the destination install folder, Auto Deploy Repository directory, and the planned maximum size of the Auto Deploy repository and click on Next.

    Note

    The default size of the Auto Deploy repository is 2 GB, which is as per the best practice to allow enough room in the repository for four (4) Image Profiles. Each Image Profile requires approximately 350 MB of free repository space.

    By default, the installer will dump the files into the following directory:

    c:\Program Files(x86...