VMware vSphere Design Essentials
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VMware vSphere Design Essentials

Puthiyavan Udayakumar

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VMware vSphere Design Essentials

Puthiyavan Udayakumar

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Year
2015
ISBN
9781784390044

VMware vSphere Design Essentials


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VMware vSphere Design Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
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Errata
Piracy
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1. Essentials of VMware vSphere
Introducing the VMware vSphere landscape
Designing VMware vSphere
The PPP framework
List of challenges and encounters faced on the virtual infrastructure
Designing accelerates the solution that resolves real-world obstacles
Requirements
Analysis
Planning
Designing
The values and procedures to be followed while designing VMware vSphere
Readiness
Performance
Manageability
Recovery
Security
Assumptions
Constraints
Risk
Procedures to be followed while designing VMware vSphere
Discovery
Requirement gathering
Reviewing the existing document
Technical assessment
Design integration
Summary
2. Designing VMware ESXi Host, Cluster, and vCenter
Design essentials for ESXi
Designing ESXi
Design configurations for ESXi
Key design considerations for ESXi
Designing an ESXi scenario
Design essentials for upgrading ESXi
Design essentials for migrating ESXi
Pre-migration
Migration
Post-migration
Delivery considerations
Provisioning
Operations
Designing essentials for the management layer
OS instances and database requirements
vCenter SSO
Deploying SSO models
Basic vCenter SSO
Multiple SSO instances in the same location
Multiple SSO instances in different locations
VMware vCenter Inventory Service
Design decisions for the management layer
Identifying whether vCenter will be hosted on a physical server or on VM Server
Identifying whether vCenter will be hosted on the Windows platform or vCSA on the Linux platform
Identifying the database server location on primary sites or remote sites
Configuration maximums to be considered
Design considerations for management layers with industry inputs
Summary
3. Designing VMware vSphere Networking
VMware vSphere networking essentials
The design of VMware VSS and VDS
Determining factors that influence virtual networks
Choosing a physical switch
Choosing the right virtual switch
Ethernet capacity sizing
Choosing the right enhancers
Adapting the ESXi server architecture to accommodate the network
Designing a vSphere network
Readiness
Performance
Management
Recoverability
Network configuration limits
Design considerations for networks with industry inputs
Summary
4. Designing VMware vSphere Storage
VMware vSphere storage essentials
Determining factors that influence vSphere storage
Hard disks
Performance
Capacity
IOPS
Spindles
Cost
Designing vSphere storage
Storage considerations
Local storage versus shared storage
Raw device mapping
Virtual SAN
Multipathing
SAN multipathing
Native multipathing plugin
NAS multipathing
Configuration considerations for better vSphere storage design
Design considerations of storage layers with industry inputs
Summary
5. Designing VMware vRealize
Cloud computing essentials
Cloud fit-for-purpose considerations
VMware vRealize Suite essentials
The design of the VMware vRealize Suite
Designing VMware vSphere for your cloud
ESXi host design and configuration considerations for a cloud
vCenter design essentials for the cloud
Cluster design essentials for the cloud
Network design essentials for the cloud
Storage design essentials for the cloud
Security design essentials for the cloud
Summary
A. About VMware vSphere 6.0
New features of VMware vSphere 6.0
Index

VMware vSphere Design Essentials

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