Implementing VMware vCenter server / Konstantin Kuminsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuminsky, Konstantin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

VMware.

Virtual computer systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a practical, hands-on guide that will help you learn everything you need to know to administer your environment with VMware vCenter Server. Throughout the book, there are best practices and useful tips and tricks which can be used for day-to-day tasks.If you are an administrator or a technician starting with VMware, with little or no knowledge of virtualization products, this book is ideal for you. Even if you are an IT professional looking to expand your existing environment, you will be able to use this book to help you improve the management of these environments. IT managers will find it helpful in terms of improving cost efficiency, ensuring required levels of service and utilising its excellent reporting abilities.

Contents:

Intro

Implementing VMware vCenter Server

Table of Contents

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

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. vCenter Deployment

Key vCenter functions and capabilities

VMware terminologies - vSphere, ESX, ESXi, hypervisor, and VMFS

vSphere component layers

The VMware licensing model

Planning the vSphere environment

vCenter system requirements

vSphere physical topology

Virtual versus physical vCenter Server

Installing the Management Suite

Linked Mode groups

Configuring a database for vCenter Server

Accessing vCenter with vSphere Client

Accessing vCenter with web client

Summary

2. Managing ESXi Hosts

Adding and removing existing hosts

Storage

Host storage adapters and storage configuration

Fibre Channel (FC)

Internet SCSI (iSCSI)

Network-attached storage (NAS)

Storage LUNs and datastores

Storage multipathing and failover

Storage Thin Provisioning

Networking

Network adapters and network configuration

Virtual switch concept

vSphere Standard Switch

vSphere Distributed Switch

Setting up networking with redundancy

EVC mode

Managing hosts with different CPUs

Host Profiles

Profile workflow

Managing profiles

Checking compliance

3. Virtual Machine Management

Creating a new VM

New VM wizard

Virtual hardware

Virtual CPUs (vCPUs)

The SCSI controller

Virtual disks

Expanding a drive

Booting a VM from CD-ROM.

Extending a drive in a Linux guest operating system

VMware Tools

Installing VMware Tools on a Windows guest

Installing VMware Tools on a Linux guest

Time synchronization

Tick counting

Tickless timekeeping

VM time synchronization

Cloning the existing VM

Hot and cold cloning

Postcloning tasks for Windows guests

Deploying a VM from a template

Creating a template

Postdeployment tasks

Keeping templates up-to-date

Template best practices

Importing/exporting an OVF template

Importing the OVF template using the command line and GUI

Importing OVF templates into previous versions of vSphere

USB support

Snapshots

Free space

Seeking additional free space

Another task is in progress

4. Availability Management

Reducing planned and unplanned downtime

Planned downtime

vSphere requirements for vMotion

Migration with vMotion

Unplanned downtime

High availability (HA)

Creating a vSphere HA cluster

HA settings

Host monitoring status

Datastore heartbeating

Virtual machine options

Restart priority

Isolation response

VM monitoring

Admission control

Admission control policies

HA security and logging

Using HA with DRS

What to expect when HA is enabled

Fault Tolerance

Preparing hosts and VMs

Configuring FT

Using FT with DRS

5. Security Management

User management

Authentication

Users and groups

Roles and permissions

Securing ESXi

Using a firewall

Using security certificates and encryption

Enabling lockdown mode

6. Resource Management

Resource allocation

Understanding shares

Understanding reservations

Understanding limits

Resource pools

Advantages

Creating and editing pools

DRS

Understanding the DRS cluster requirements

Creating a DRS cluster.

Disabling DRS

Using power management

Cluster validity

Affinity rules

CPU affinity rules

CPU power management

7. Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions

Events, alarms, and system monitoring

Alarms and events

Acknowledging and resetting triggered alarms

Monitoring host health

Guest performance and storage usage

Snapshot size monitoring

Setting up e-mail alerts and SNMP traps

Viewing and scheduling tasks

The Update Manager plugin

Installation

Working with baselines

Scanning and remediating objects

Deploying Windows updates

8. VMware vCenter Operations

Installing and configuring vCenter Operations

What is vCenter Operations?

vCenter Operations Manager Standard deployment

Basic configuration

Additional configuration and usage

Evaluation tasks

Badges and scores

Hierarchy views

Health details

Scorecards

Analyse using heat maps

Memory pressure and ballooning

9. VMware vCenter Orchestrator

Installing and configuring vCenter Orchestrator

System requirements and components setup

Installing and upgrading Orchestrator

Initial configuration

Network access

SSL certificate

LDAP configuration

Database connection

Server certificate

Plugin configuration

Installing Orchestrator as a system service

Administering vCenter Orchestrator

Overview of workflows

Resource elements and actions

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 2, 2013).

ISBN:

9781849689991

1849689997

OCLC:

867906897