Book description
Over 75 practical recipes to confidently design an efficient virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.x
About This Book
Get the first book on the market that helps you design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6
Achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center
Exciting and practical recipes help you to design a virtual data easily by leveraging the features of VMware vSphere 6
Who This Book Is For
If you are an administrator or consultant interested in designing virtualized datacenter environments using VMware vSphere 6.x or previous versions of vSphere and the supporting components, this book is for you. It will help both new and experienced architects deliver professional VMware vSphere virtual datacenter designs.
What You Will Learn
Identify key factors related to a vSphere design and apply them to every step of the design process
Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design.
Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
Determine the type of database to use based on the deployment size.
Design for performance, availability, recoverability, manageability, and security
Map the logical resource design into the physical vSphere design
Create professional vSphere design documentation to ensure a successful implementation of the vSphere design
Leverage the latest vSphere 6.x features to ensure manageability, performance, availability, and security in a virtual datacenter design
In Detail
VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. With the release of 6.x a whole range of new features has come along such as ESXi Security enhancements, fault tolerance, high availability enhancements, and virtual volumes, thus simplifying the secure management of resources, the availability of applications, and performance enhancements of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenter.
This book provides recipes to create a virtual datacenter design using the features of vSphere 6.x by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process. You’ll follow steps that walk you through the design process from beginning to end, right from the discovery process to creating the conceptual design; calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design; mapping the logical requirements to a physical design; security design; and finally creating the design documentation.
The recipes in this book provide guidance on making design decisions to ensure the successful creation, and ultimately the successful implementation, of a VMware vSphere 6.x virtual data center design.
Style and Approach
The book follows a recipe-based approach that consists of practical recipes to effectively design a virtual data center.
Table of contents
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VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. The Virtual Datacenter
- 2. The Discovery Process
- 3. The Design Factors
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4. vSphere Management Design
- Introduction
- Identifying vCenter components and dependencies
- Selecting a vCenter deployment option
- Determining vCenter resource requirements
- Selecting a database for the vCenter deployment
- Determining database interoperability
- Choosing a vCenter deployment topology
- Designing for management availability
- Designing a separate management cluster
- Configuring vCenter Mail, SNMP, and Alarms
- Using Enhanced Linked Mode
- Using the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
- Backing up the vCenter Server components
- Upgrading vCenter Server
- Designing a vSphere Update Manager Deployment
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5. vSphere Storage Design
- Introduction
- Identifying RAID levels
- Calculating the storage capacity requirements
- Determining the storage performance requirements
- Calculating the storage throughput
- Storage connectivity options
- Storage path selection plugins
- Sizing datastores
- Designing for VMware VSAN
- Using VMware Virtual Volumes
- Incorporating storage policies into a design
- NFS version 4.1 capabilities and limits
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6. vSphere Network Design
- Introduction
- Determining network bandwidth requirements
- Standard or distributed virtual switches
- Providing network availability
- Network resource management
- Using private VLANs
- IP storage network design considerations
- Using jumbo frames
- Creating custom TCP/IP stacks
- Designing for VMkernel services
- vMotion network design considerations
- IPv6 in a vSphere Design
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7. vSphere Compute Design
- Introduction
- Calculating CPU resource requirements
- Calculating memory resource requirements
- Transparent Page Sharing
- Scaling up or scaling out
- Determining the vCPU-to-core ratio
- Clustering compute resources
- Reserving HA resources to support failover
- Using Distributed Resource Scheduling to balance cluster resources
- Ensuring cluster vMotion compatibility
- Using resource pools
- Providing fault tolerance protection
- Leveraging host flash
- 8. vSphere Physical Design
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9. Virtual Machine Design
- Introduction
- Right-sizing virtual machines
- Enabling CPU Hot Add and Memory Hot Plug
- Using paravirtualized VM hardware
- Creating virtual machine templates
- Upgrading and installing VMware Tools
- Upgrading VM virtual hardware
- Using vApps to organize virtualized applications
- Using VM affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Using a VM to host affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone
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10. vSphere Security Design
- Introduction
- Managing the Single Sign-On Password Policy
- Managing Single Sign-On Identity Sources
- Using Active Directory for ESXi host authentication
- ESXi Firewall configuration
- The ESXi Lockdown mode
- Configuring role-based access control
- Virtual network security
- Using the VMware vSphere 6.0 Hardening Guide
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11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Introduction
- Backing up ESXi host configurations
- Configuring ESXi host logging
- Backing up virtual distributed switch configurations
- Deploying VMware Data Protection
- Using VMware Data Protection to back up virtual machines
- Replicating virtual machines with vSphere Replication
- Protecting the virtual datacenter with Site Recovery Manager
- 12. Design Documentation
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2016
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785283468
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