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Kunal Kumar, Christian Stankowic
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About This Book
- Plan, deploy, and manage your vSphere environment for even the most complex IT infrastructures
- Familiarize yourself with vSphere infrastructure to become a skilled vSphere administrator
- Seamlessly configure and deploy vSphere with simple examples in this fast-paced guide
Who This Book Is For
This book is intended for virtualization administrators who want to learn VMware vSphere quickly. It is assumed that you have some basic knowledge of virtualization and the vSphere environment.
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Table of Contents
VMware vSphere Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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Free access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introduction to VMware vSphere
Need and use of VMware vSphere
Differences between VMware vSphere and other hypervisors
Understanding ESXi and modes of management
History of ESXi
Understanding ESXi
Managing ESXi
vSphere Client
vSphere Web Client
Virtual hardware versions
vSphere editions and kits
Different types of vSphere installations
Fresh installation
Auto Deploy
Upgrading an ESXi host
Introduction to virtual infrastructure – virtual machines, disks, CPUs, memory, switches, network, and storage
Virtual machines
CPU virtualization
Memory virtualization
Physical and virtual networking
Physical and virtual storage
Summary
2. VMware vCenter Server
Introduction to vCenter Server
vCenter Server architecture
Communication between vCenter Server and ESXi hosts
Additional vCenter Server components
Comparison of vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance
Preparing and installing vCenter Server on Microsoft Windows
Hardware, software, and network requirements
Database preparation
vCenter Server installation
Importing, starting, and configuring the vCenter Server Appliance
vCenter Server Appliance features
vCenter Server Appliance benefits
vCenter Server Appliance requirements
Importing the vCenter Server Appliance
Deploying vCSA 6.0
Starting the vCenter Server Appliance 5.5
Configuring the vCenter Server Appliance time zone
Connecting to the web interface on vSphere 5.x
Configuring and managing vCenter Server
Managing vCenter Server Appliance services
Single Sign-On
Advantages of vCenter Single Sign-On
Characteristics of vCenter Single Sign-On
Managing inventory, hosts, VMs, and templates via vCenter
Data center objects
Organizing the inventory objects
Navigating the vSphere Web Client
Adding the host to vCenter Server
vCenter Server licensing
Backing up vCenter Server
Summary
3. Creating Virtual Machines
Overview of virtual machines
Virtual machine files
Virtual hardware versions
Creating a virtual machine
Creating a new virtual machine using the wizard
Importing an OVF file
Thick and thin provisioning of virtual disks
Installing a guest operating system
Customizing the guest operating system
VMware Tools
Creating templates and clones
Deploying a virtual machine from a template
Cloning a virtual machine
Summary
4. Managing Virtual Network
Virtual network
An overview of virtual switches
Basic network operations using vSphere
Assigning an IP address to an ESXi host
Creating vSwitches and virtual ports
Understanding virtual switch and port types
vNetwork Standard Switch
vNetwork Distributed Virtual Switch
Benefits of distributed over standard
Virtual switch ports
Design ideas
Blade server-based approach
Rack server-based approach
Additional ideas for optimizing fault tolerance network designs
Connecting a virtual machine to a port group
An overview of VLANs
Creating VLANs
Network security policies
Security policy
Traffic shaping
NIC teaming
Load Balancing with vSphere
Summary
5. Network Virtualization with VMware NSX
NSX components
Deploying NSX Manager
Steps for installing NSX Manager
Data center access layer deployment
Logical routing
Distributed routing
Centralized routing
Logical switching
Logical firewalls
Network isolation
Network segmentation
Logical load balancing
Summary
6. Managing Virtual Storage
Understanding virtual storage, datastores, and file systems
Datastores
VMFS datastores
NFS datastores
Managing and configuring datastores
Creating a VMFS datastore using vSphere Web Client
Creating an NFS datastore in vSphere Web Client
Upgrading a VMFS datastore
Increasing the VMFS datastore's capacity
Increasing the VMFS datastore's size using vSphere Web Client
Unmounting and mounting a VMFS datastore
Removing a VMFS datastore
vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
Data deduplication
vSphere Data Protection Appliance
Available editions
Deploying and configuring VDP
Data backup
Data recovery
Summary
7. Working with VSAN
An overview of Virtual SAN
Requirements of VSAN
Benefits of using VSAN
VSAN sizing tool
Installing and configuring VSAN
Virtual SAN datastore properties
Virtual machine requirements
Virtual machine storage policies
Enabling and creating virtual machine storage policies
Assigning a virtual machine storage policy during provisioning
Virtual machine compliance
Failure resilience with VSAN
Summary
8. Managing Virtual Machines
Deploying virtual machines across data centers
Modifying the virtual machine settings
Adding devices to a virtual machine
Increasing the size of a virtual disk
Inflating a thin provisioned disk
Migrating virtual machines
Using VMware vMotion
Virtual machine requirements for vMotion
Host requirements for vMotion
VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
EVC requirements
Configuring EVC
Migrating a virtual machine
Using Storage vMotion
Migrating a virtual machine using Storage vMotion
Guidelines to use Storage vMotion
Using Enhanced vMotion
Host requirements for Enhanced vMotion
Migrating a virtual machine using Enhanced vMotion
Virtual machine snapshots
The process of taking snapshots
Managing snapshots
Summary
9. Resource Management and Performance Monitoring
Virtual memory management
Virtual machine memory over-commitment
Virtual machine swap files
Memory reclamation techniques
Virtual CPU
CPU load balancing
Hyper-threading
Understanding resource controls and resource...