Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 : leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers /
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Publishing,
2017.
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İçindekiler:
- 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.