Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 : leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers / Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mauro, Andrea, author.

Valsecchi, Paolo, author.

Novák, Karel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

VMware vSphere.

Virtual computer systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (565 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. Design, deploy and manage VMware datacenters Implement monitoring and security of VMware workloads with ease. Who This Book Is For If you are an administrator, infrastructure engineer, IT architect, or an IT consultant and analyst who has basic knowledge of VMware vSphere and now wants to master it, then this book is for you. What You Will Learn Get a deep understanding of vSphere 6.5 functionalities Design and plan a virtualization environment based on vSphere 6.5 Manage and administer a vSphere 6.5 environment and resources Get tips for the VCP6-DCV and VCIX6-DCV exams (along with use of the vSphere 6 documentation) Implement different migration techniques to move your workload across different environments. Save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. In Detail VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease. You'll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you'll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you'll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we'll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you'll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management. Style and Approach This bo...

Contents:

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)

Remote offices and branch offices (ROBO)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Chapter 11: Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading.

Updating or patching ESXi hosts and vCSAs.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 29, 2018).

ISBN:

9781787283909

1787283909

OCLC:

1021887800