Book description
Unleash the benefits of VMware vSphere 6.7 to provide a powerful, flexible and secure digital infrastructure
Key Features
- Deep dive into areas like management, security, scalability, availability and more with vSphere 6.7
- Design, deploy and manage VMware vSphere virtual datacenters
- Implement monitoring and security of VMware workloads with ease
Book Description
VMware vSphere provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications and datacenters that help you with your digital transformation efficiently.
Mastering VMware vSphere, 6.7, Second Edition begins by covering an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. You'll learn to design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive performance analysis and then proceed with the workflow and installation of components. Along with new network trends that will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment, you will also learn the best practices involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.7, you'll make use of more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. The concluding chapters focus on core vSphere components as storage and network and you will learn all you need about resource management followed by topics as high availability and disaster recovery, troubleshooting, monitoring and security.
By the end the book you will discover different approaches on how to build your own VMware vSphere lab to help you run even the most demanding workloads
What you will learn
- Get a deep understanding of vSphere 6.7 functionalities
- Design a virtualization environment based on VMware vSphere 6.7
- Manage and administer a vSphere 6.7 environment and resources
- Get tips for the VCP6-DCV and VCIX6-DCV exams
- Implement different migration techniques across different environments
- Deploy and understand different concepts of VMware vSphere 6.7 lab
Who this book is for
If you are an administrator, infrastructure engineer, IT architect, or an IT consultant who has basic knowledge of VMware vSphere and now wants to master it, then this book is for you.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1: Getting Started
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Evolution to vSphere 6.7
- Introduction to VMware vSphere
- VMware vSphere ecosystem
- Introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS
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What's new in VMware vSphere 6.7?
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Key features
- vSphere Client (HTML-5)
- Improved vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) monitoring
- Improved vCenter backup management
- ESXi single-reboot upgrades
- ESXi Quick Boot
- Support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
- vSphere persistent memory
- Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)
- TPM 2.0
- Microsoft virtualization-based security (VBS)
- Per-VM Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
- Hybrid linked mode
- Instant Clone
- Configuration maximums
- VMware vSphere 6.7 Editions
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Key features
- Reasons for and against upgrading
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure
- Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments
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Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
- vSphere components and workflow
- ESXi deployment plan
- ESXi installation
- vCenter Server components
- vCenter Server Appliance deployment
- vCSA HA
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
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Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7
- Using the VMware vSphere HTML5 client
- Configuring ESXi
- Backing up and restoring ESXi
- Configuring vCSA
- Exporting and importing the vCSA configuration
- Managing data centers, clusters, and hosts
- Automating tasks with scripts
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading
- Section 2: Managing Resources
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Managing Networking Resources
- Basic network overview
- Virtual networking with switches
- Managing standard virtual networking
- Managing distributed virtual networking
- NIOC
- Advanced network functions
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Managing Storage Resources
- VM Deployment and Management
- VM Resource Management
- Section 3: Advanced Topics
- Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Securing and Protecting Your Environment
- Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment
- Troubleshooting Your Environment
- Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment
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Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab
- The importance of lifelong learning
- Choosing the right platform
- Software components and licensing
- Architecture and logical design
- A detailed implementation guide
- Summary
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Assessment
- Chapter 1: Evolution to vSphere 6.7
- Chapter 2: Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure
- Chapter 3: Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments
- Chapter 4: Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
- Chapter 5: Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7
- Chapter 6: Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading
- Chapter 7: Managing Networking Resources
- Chapter 8: Managing Storage Resources
- Chapter 9: VM Deployment and Management
- Chapter 10: VM Resource Management
- Chapter 11: Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Chapter 12: Securing and Protecting Your Environment
- Chapter 13: Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment
- Chapter 14: Troubleshooting Your Environment
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2019
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789613377
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