Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers
Deliver great business value by adopting the virtualization platform VMware vSphere 6.5, from the design to the deployment About This Book This new edition is based on vSphere 6.5 and has described new features in different areas, including management, security, scalability, availability and so on....
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt
2017.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629879706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite
- VMware and vSphere background
- VMware vSphere as a Cloud Foundation
- Virtual Machine (VM) versus containers
- VMware vSphere as an infrastructure foundation
- Storage platform
- Network and security platform
- Cloud platform
- End-user computing platform
- Container platform
- Other VMware products complementary to vSphere
- What's new on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere limits?
- What's new in 6.5?
- What's new with vSphere 6.5 Update 1?
- Configuration maximums
- VM
- Host ESXi 6.5
- vCenter Server 6.5
- Why you should upgrade to vSphere 6.5 and why not?
- Why upgrade?
- Why shouldn't you upgrade?
- Features and editions of vSphere 6.5
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure
- Plan a virtual infrastructure project
- Assess
- Requirements, constraints, and assumptions
- Design
- Conceptual design
- Logical design
- Service dependencies
- Physical design
- ESXi host
- vCenter Services
- Building blocks
- How to provide good documentation
- Design areas and technologies
- Best practices
- Reference architecture
- VVD
- VMware Solution Enablement Toolkits (SETs)
- Different scenarios
- Enterprise
- Business requirements
- Possible constraints
- Main risks
- Some design decisions
- Small or Mid-Sized Business (SMB)
- Business requirements
- Possible constraints
- Main risks
- Some design decisions
- Remote offices and branch offices (ROBO)
- Business requirements
- Possible constraints
- Main risks
- Some design decisions
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment
- Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing.
- Useful metrics from a physical environment
- Processor metrics
- Memory metrics
- Disk metrics
- Network metrics
- Are all workloads good candidates to be virtualized?
- Existing tools to analyze a physical environment
- Capacity Planner
- DPACK
- Assessment of an existing virtual environment
- Discovery and inventory
- Health check
- Existing tools for analyzing a virtual environment
- RVTools
- VOA
- VMware vSphere Health Check
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
- vSphere components and workflow
- ESXi deployment plan
- Choosing the hardware platform
- Identification of the storage architecture
- Defining the network configuration
- ESXi installation
- Where to install ESXi?
- Preparing for deployment
- Interactive installation
- Unattended installation
- Auto Deploy installation
- How Auto Deploy works
- Configuring DHCP
- Configuring TFTP
- Creating an image profile
- Creating deployment rules
- Auto Deploy modes
- Stateless installation
- Stateless caching installation
- Stateful installation
- vCenter Server components
- PSC
- Where to install - physical or virtual?
- vCenter Server deployment
- Choosing the database
- Configuring a Microsoft SQL Server database
- Configuring ODBC DSN
- Installing vCenter Server for Windows
- vCSA deployment
- Why deploy vCSA instead of the Windows version?
- Installing the vCSA PSC
- Installing the vCSA vCenter
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5
- VMware vSphere HTML5 client
- ESXi configuration
- Management console configuration
- Enabling SSH access
- Configuring NTP
- ESXi 6.5 partition layout
- Boot banks
- Scratch partition
- vCSA configuration
- Basic setup using vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI)
- Modifying the IP address and DNS
- Exporting a support bundle.
- Configuring time synchronization
- Changing the vCSA password
- Licensing
- Roles and permissions
- AD integration
- Configuring a host with AD authentication
- Installing the VMware Enhanced Authentication plugin
- vCSA and PSC
- Repointing the vCSA to another external PSC
- Pointing the vCSA with an embedded PSC to an external PSC
- Resetting the SSO password
- Managing data centers, clusters, and hosts
- Creating a data center
- Adding a host to vCenter Server
- Disconnecting a host from vCenter Server
- Removing a host from vCenter Server
- Creating a cluster
- Removing a host from a cluster
- Managing hosts
- Using tags
- Tasks
- Scheduling tasks
- Managing host profiles
- vCenter Server in Enhanced Linked mode (ELM)
- Automating tasks with scripts
- Automating with PowerCLI
- PowerCLI script examples
- Using vCLI
- Installing vCLI on Windows
- vCenter REST API
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Advanced Network Management
- Basic overview
- OSI model
- Encapsulation and de-encapsulation
- Broadcasting, unicasting, and multicasting
- MAC tables and MAC learning process
- Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)
- Virtual LAN (VLAN)
- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) versus User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
- IPv6
- Virtual networking
- vSS
- vDS
- Managing vSS
- VMkernel adapters
- Physical adapters
- TCP/IP stacks
- Managing vDS
- Properties
- Topology
- Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
- Private VLAN
- NetFlow
- Port mirroring
- Health check
- Network I/O Control (NIOC)
- Network protocol profiles
- Ports, hosts, VMs, and networks
- Introduction to NSX
- NSX components
- Management plane
- Control plane
- Data plane
- NSX installation
- Network Functions Virtualization (NVF)
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Advanced Storage Management
- Storage basics
- The evolution of the storage world.
- Spinning disks
- Flash devices
- Storage array
- Converged networks
- VMware vSphere storage types
- Storage types at the VM logical level
- Storage types at the VM physical level
- Storage types at the ESXi logical level
- Storage types at the ESXi physical level
- VMware vSphere storage configuration
- Storage FC
- FCoE
- Storage iSCSI
- Storage NFS
- Storage features
- VM snapshots
- Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) 6
- Hot-extend for jumbo VMDK
- Automatic space reclaim
- Instant clones versus linked clones
- Storage DRS versus storage tiering
- Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
- Storage integration
- VMware vSphere Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
- Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
- Multipathing
- Storage masking and filtering
- VMware VAAI
- VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO)
- VMware vCenter plugins
- VASA
- VVols
- Storage design
- VM storage layout
- VM snapshot limits
- Datastore layout
- Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD)
- VVols dependencies
- Introduction to HCI and vSAN
- VMware vSAN
- Caching with vSphere Flash Read Cache
- Other solutions
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Advanced VM and Resource Management
- VM components
- Virtual hardware
- vCPUs
- Memory
- Network adapter
- Virtual disks
- Storage controller
- File structure
- Changing the default file position
- VMware Tools
- Open VM Tools (OVT)
- Deploying VMs
- Creating a new VM
- Hardware version
- Setting the default hardware version
- Installing the OS
- Installing VMware Tools
- Deploying a VM from a template
- Cloning a VM
- Deploying Open Virtual Format (OVF) and Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) templates
- Creating a Content Library
- Managing VMs
- Adding or registering an existing VM
- Removing or deleting a VM
- Managing the power state of a VM
- Managing VM snapshots.
- Creating a snapshot
- Committing changes
- Snapshot consolidation
- Resource management
- Memory resources
- CPU resources
- Resource pools
- Managing resource pools
- Creating a DRS cluster
- Virtual network-aware DRS
- Managing DRS rules
- VM-VM affinity rule
- VM-Host affinity rule
- Managing power resources
- Managing storage and network resources
- VM migration
- vMotion without shared storage
- Converting VMs
- P2V
- V2V
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting
- What is troubleshooting?
- Monitoring a virtual environment
- CLI usage
- ESXCLI commands
- ESXCFG-
- vSphere Management Assistant
- Ruby vSphere console
- VIM-CMD
- VCSA - CLI
- PowerCLI
- Logs
- ESXi host logs
- GUI Tools
- vRealize Operations Manager
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting the vCenter Server
- TRBL with ESXi host
- Troubleshooting cluster HA or DRS
- Troubleshooting virtual network
- Troubleshooting storage
- Troubleshooting VMs
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Securing and Protecting Your Environment
- Regulations and compliance
- Security and hardening concepts in vSphere
- Hardening vSphere
- Host hardening
- Lockdown Mode
- Networking
- Transparent Page Sharing (TPS)
- VIB acceptance levels
- VM hardening
- VMware vCenter hardening
- Authentication and identity
- Password management
- AD authentication
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Smart cards
- RSA SecurID
- Other security aspects
- Log management
- Monitoring protocols
- Certification management
- New security options in vSphere 6.5
- VMware vCenter federations
- Protecting the data at rest
- VM encryption
- Protecting data in motion
- Encrypted vMotion
- Secure boot
- ESXi secure boot
- VM secure boot
- Enhanced logging
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading.
- Updating or patching ESXi hosts and vCSAs.
