▶Book Description
VMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization product suite that helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises cloud infrastructures, providing for the automation and orchestration of workload deployment and lifecycle management of infrastructure. This book focuses on the latest release of VMware vSphere and follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on instructions required to deploy and manage a vSphere environment.
The book starts with the procedures involved in upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to vSphere 6.5, followed by deploying a new vSphere 6.5 environment. Then the book delves further into the procedures involved in managing storage and network access to the ESXi hosts and the virtual machines running on them. Moving on, the book covers high availability and fair distribution/utilization of clustered compute and storage resources.
Finally, the book covers patching and upgrading the vSphere infrastructure using VUM, certificate management using VMCA, and finishes with a chapter covering the tools that can be used to monitor the performance of a vSphere infrastructure.
▶What You Will Learn
⦁ Upgrade your existing vSphere environment or perform a fresh deployment.
⦁ Automate the deployment and management of large sets of ESXi hosts in your vSphere Environment
⦁ Configure and manage FC, iSCSI, and NAS storage, and get more control over how storage resources are allocated and managed
⦁ Configure vSphere networking by deploying host-wide and data center-wide switches in your vSphere environment
⦁ Configure high availability on a host cluster and learn how to enable the fair distribution and utilization of compute resources
⦁ Patch and upgrade the vSphere environment
⦁ Handle certificate request generation and renew component certificates
⦁ Monitor performance of a vSphere environment
▶Key Features
⦁ Simplified and to-the-point theory and practical recipes to deploy and manage vSphere 6.5
⦁ Discover the best ways to deploy stateless and stateful ESXi hosts and upgrade them
⦁ Storage and network resource management
⦁ Certificate management using VMCA
⦁ Monitor the performance of a vSphere environment.
▶Who This Book Is For
If you are a system administrator, support professional, or anyone interested in learning how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment, then this book is for you. This task-oriented reference guide will also benefit consultants or infrastructure architects who design and deploy vSphere 6.5 environments.
▶What this book covers
⦁ Chapter 1, Upgrading to vSphere 6.5, will teach you how to upgrade your existing environment to the vSphere 6.5, and you will also learn how to migrate vCenter running on Windows to appliance.
⦁ Chapter 2, Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5, will show you how to perform a fresh deployment of VCSA 6.5 and installation of ESXi 6.5. You will also learn how to deploy External Platform Services Controller
⦁ Chapter 3, Using vSphere Host Profiles, will show you how to use Host Profiles to push a configuration change, performing host customizations, remediating noncompliant hosts. You will also learn how to copy settings between host profiles.
⦁ Chapter 4, Using ESXi Image Builder, you will learn how to use ESXi Image Builder using both the new vSphere Web Client GUI and CLI. You will learn how to create image profiles from either an existing image profile and fresh profile from scratch.
⦁ Chapter 5, Using vSphere Auto Deploy, you will learn how to deploy stateless and stateful ESXi host without the need to have to run the ISO installation on the server hardware.
⦁ Chapter 6, Using vSphere Standard Switches, you will learn how to set up vSphere Networking using the standard Switches.
⦁ Chapter 7, Using vSphere Distributed Switches, will teach you how to set up vSphere Networking using vSphere Distributed Switches. You will also learn how to migrate networking from standard vSwitches to the Distributed Switches. You will also learn configuring advanced features, such as NetFlow, Port Mirroring, and Private VLANs.
⦁ Chapter 8, Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore, will show how to create VMFS Datastores.
⦁ Chapter 9, Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage, will show how to configure and manage access to the iSCSI and NFS storage.
⦁ Chapter 10, Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage, will show methods to consume storage resource effectively, by controlling queue depths, reacting space and latency thresholds, and automating the usage of tiered storage.
⦁ Chapter 11, Creating and Managing Virtual Machines, will teach how to create virtual machines, configure its settings, create and manage templates, and also export them to OVFs. You will also learn how to create content libraries.
⦁ Chapter 12, Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability, will discuss how to configure High Availability on a cluster on ESXi hosts. You will also learn how to configure native high availability for vCenter Servers.
⦁ Chapter 13, Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC, will discuss how to pool compute resources from a cluster of ESXi hosts to enable efficient virtual machine placement and automate mitigation of resource imbalance in a cluster. You will also learn how to reduce power consumption of a cluster by changing the power state of underutilized hosts.
⦁ Chapter 14, Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager, will teach how to manage the life cycle of ESXi Hosts by patching and updating the environment.
⦁ Chapter 15, Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility, will show how to generate certificate signing requests and replace certificates for a vSphere Environment.
⦁ Chapter 16, Using vSphere Management Assistant, will show how to deploy and configure vMA to run commands/scripts remotely on ESXi.
⦁ Chapter 17, Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment, will describe how to use esxtop and vCenter Performance Graphs to monitor the performance of a vSphere environment.
