Book description
Efficiently virtualize your IT infrastructure with vSphere
In Detail
This book will provide you with the skills you'll need to plan, deploy, and manage VMware vSphere infrastructures. Starting with an introduction to vCenter Server and managing single and multiple ESXi servers, you'll learn the basics of vSphere's architecture of virtualization, hypervisors, and virtual infrastructure, and discover how to create and manage virtual machines. You'll learn network management using inbuilt vSphere operations and network virtualization using VMware NSX technology, along with virtual storage in a vSphere environment. You'll go on to implement and configure VSAN with vSphere and discover the advanced operations that can be performed with virtual machines. By the end of this book, you will have explored critical components in vSphere-HA, FT, and DRS security of vSphere architecture, and some vSphere 6.0 new features.
What You Will Learn
- Explore a multiple-host virtualization environment with ESXi and vCenter Server
- Create and manage virtual machines
- Create and configure vNetwork Switches to manage your virtual networks
- Build software-defined, performance-oriented shared storage and network topologies with VSAN and NSX
- Discover features such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, snapshots, templates, and cloning
- Familiarize yourself with vSphere High Availability, Fault Tolerance, DRS, and Update management
- Discover some of the newly added vSphere 6.0 features
Table of contents
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VMware vSphere Essentials
- Table of Contents
- VMware vSphere Essentials
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to VMware vSphere
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2. VMware vCenter Server
- Introduction to vCenter Server
- vCenter Server architecture
- Communication between vCenter Server and ESXi hosts
- Additional vCenter Server components
- Comparison of vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance
- Preparing and installing vCenter Server on Microsoft Windows
- Importing, starting, and configuring the vCenter Server Appliance
- Configuring and managing vCenter Server
- Managing inventory, hosts, VMs, and templates via vCenter
- vCenter Server licensing
- Backing up vCenter Server
- Summary
- 3. Creating Virtual Machines
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4. Managing Virtual Network
- Virtual network
- Basic network operations using vSphere
- An overview of VLANs
- Network security policies
- Load Balancing with vSphere
- Summary
- 5. Network Virtualization with VMware NSX
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6. Managing Virtual Storage
- Understanding virtual storage, datastores, and file systems
- Managing and configuring datastores
- vSphere Data Protection Appliance
- Summary
- 7. Working with VSAN
- 8. Managing Virtual Machines
- 9. Resource Management and Performance Monitoring
- 10. Incorporating vSphere High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and DRS
- 11. Securing and Updating vSphere
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12. vSphere 6.0 Overview
- Introduction to vSphere 6.0
- vCenter Server features
- Virtual desktop infrastructure
- NVIDIA GRID vGPU technology
- Instant Clone
- Long-distance vMotion
- Multi-CPU Fault Tolerance (SMP-FT)
- Content library
- vSphere Web Client
- Storage in vSphere 6.0
- vSphere Data Protection
- VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO)
- vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
- Summary
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware vSphere Essentials
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2015
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781784398750
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