VMware vSphere 5.5 cookbook : a task-oriented guide with over 150 practical recipes to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere components / Abhilash GB ; commissioning editor Usha Iyer ; acquisition editors Saleem Ahmed, Harsha Bharwani ; copy editors Neha Karnani, Shambhavi Pai, Adithi Shetty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

GB, Abhilash, author.

Contributor:

Uthup, Usha, editor.

Ahmed, Saleem, editor.

Bharwani, Harsha, editor.

Karnani, Neha, editor.

Pai, Shambhavi, editor.

Shetty, Adithi, editor.

Series:

Professional Expertise Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

VMware.

Virtual computer systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Task-oriented guide with over 150 practical recipes to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere components

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

B Abhilash G: Abhilash G B is a virtualization specialist, author, and a VMware vExpert (2014-2019). His primary focus is in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the beginning of 2007. He holds several VMware certifications, including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-NV. He is also the author of six other publications.

Summary:

This is an excellent handbook for system administrators, support professionals, or for anyone intending to give themselves a headstart in learning how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment. It is also a good task-oriented reference guide for consultants or infrastructure architects who design and deploy vSphere environments.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Upgrading to vSphere 5.5; Introduction; Downloading vCenter 5.5; Carrying out pre-upgrade checks; Upgrading the Single Sign-On component; Upgrading the vSphere Web Client; Upgrading the vCenter Inventory Service; Performing an upgrade of vCenter Server; Upgrading ESXi to Version 5.5; Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to Version 5.5; Upgrading VMware Tools; Upgrading the virtual machine hardware; Scheduling the virtual machine hardware upgrade

Chapter 2: Performing a New Installation of vSphere 5.5Introduction; Installing ESXi 5.5; Configuring the ESXi Management Network; Installing vCenter 5.5; Adding an additional Identity Source to the SSO server; Assigning users/groups to the vCenter Server; Deploying SSO for the vCenter Linked Mode; Creating a vCenter Linked Mode group; Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 5.5; Chapter 3: Using vSphere Host Profiles; Introduction; Preparing a reference host; Creating a Host Profile; Exporting a Host Profile; Importing a Host Profile; Duplicating a Host Profile

Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host ProfileVerifying the profile compliance of an ESXi host; Remediating an ESXi host for profile compliance; Using Host Profiles to push a new configuration change; Chapter 4: Using ESXi Image Builder; Introduction; Downloading an ESXi offline bundle; Creating an image profile by cloning a predefined profile; Removing an ESXi image profile; Adding a VIB (software package) to an image profile; Adding the HA VIB to the image profile; Exporting an image profile as an ISO or offline bundle; Creating an image profile from scratch

Applying an image profile to the hostChapter 5: Using vSphere Auto Deploy; Introduction; Installing an Auto Deploy server; Configuring a TFTP Server with Auto Deploy files; Configuring the DHCP server for PXE boot; Testing the PXE boot configuration; Preparing VMware PowerCLI for first use; Preparing vSphere Auto Deploy for provisioning; Choosing an ESXi Image Profile to deploy; Creating a Host Profile; Creating a deploy rule; Activating a deploy rule; Testing Auto Deploy; Enabling Stateless Caching; Performing an Auto Deploy stateful install; Chapter 6: Configuring vSphere Networking

IntroductionCreating a vSphere Standard Switch; Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch; Creating a VMkernel interface on a standard vSwitch; Deleting a port group from a standard vSwitch; Adding an uplink to a standard vSwitch; Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch; Creating a distributed port group; Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch; Migrating a virtual machine network from ; a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch; Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink; Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming and failover on a vSwitch and a VDS

Migrating VMkernel interfaces between a standard vSwitch and VDS

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 16, 2015).

ISBN:

9781782172864

1782172866

OCLC:

905853415