Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

by Atindra Chaturvedi
Released February 2017
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781786469816

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Video description

Deliver high business value by virtualizing applications effectively with VMware vSphere 6.

About This Video

  • Deep dive into the latest features of VMware vSphere 6 thereby virtualizing applications with ease.

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In Detail

VMware vSphere 6 is a powerful server virtualization platform that enables best performance, efficiency and availability for your infrastructure. It is adaptive by nature and effectively aligns your business requirements to the IT infrastructure.

This advanced level tutorial will empower you to virtualize any application with ease as we will be covering all the latest enhancements and advanced functionalities of vSphere hypervisor, Virtual Machines, vCenter Server virtual storage and security. We will teach you how to enhance and monitor vSphere performance by optimizing your virtual environment and solving performance issues. We will also teach you how to upgrade your legacy vSphere to the latest version along with troubleshooting techniques. We will demonstrate various command-line actions that can help you to configure and manage storage for ESXi hosts in your data center, virtual machine networking, monitoring hosts, adding third party extentions, performing virtual machine operations and many more. Basically command-line will enable you to automate deployment and various other management tasks.

By the end of the video, the viewers will be able to virtualize applications effectively with VMware vSphere 6.

Downloading the example code for this course: You can download the example code files for this course on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-VMware-vSphere-6.5. If you require support please email: customercare@packt.com

Table of contents

  1. Chapter 1 : Introduction to vSphere 6.5
    1. The Course Overview 00:09:19
    2. Features of vSphere 6.5 00:19:18
    3. Introduction to the ESXi 6 Command Line Interface (CLI) 00:19:50
  2. Chapter 2 : Administering Advanced vSphere 6 Networking
    1. vSphere Distributed Switch Version 6 Advanced Features 00:44:57
    2. Network I/O Control Version 3 00:14:35
    3. ESXi 6 Command Line Interface (CLI) for Networking 00:24:24
    4. Custom TCP/IP Stacks 00:11:03
  3. Chapter 3 : Working with vSphere Virtual Machines
    1. Configuring Advanced vSphere 6 Virtual Machine Settings 00:45:23
    2. Creating and Managing a Multi-Site Content Library 00:23:33
    3. Configuring and Maintaining a vCloud Air Connection 00:33:01
  4. Chapter 4 : Managing vSphere 6 Advanced Storage
    1. Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) 00:38:43
    2. Configuring NFS 4.1 Datastores 00:21:52
    3. Configuring iSCSI Datastores 00:16:51
    4. LUN Masking Storage Array and ESXi 00:23:56
    5. vscsiStats Tool 00:14:33
    6. vmkfstools Tool 00:11:45
  5. Chapter 5 : Backup and Recovery of vSphere 6.x Deployment
    1. vSphere Replication Appliance and vSphere Data Protection Appliance 00:12:13
    2. vSphere Replication Appliance Installation and Configuration 00:11:57
    3. vSphere Replication Appliance Lab Tour and User Interface 00:15:38
    4. vSphere Replication Server Installation and Configuration 00:06:13
    5. Connect to Target Replication Sites 00:13:39
    6. Creating Replication Jobs 00:14:35
    7. Recovering Replicated Virtual Machines 00:09:24
    8. Optimizing Replication 00:15:47
    9. vSphere Data Protection Lab Tour and User Interface 00:11:05
    10. vSphere Data Protection Appliance Installation and Configuration 00:22:00
    11. Managing Backup Jobs 00:08:13
    12. Restoring from Backup 00:04:17
    13. Managing Replicated Backups 00:14:13
    14. File Level Restores 00:08:23
    15. Backing up and Restoring Platform Service Controllers 00:24:49
    16. vSphere Data Protection Appliance Command Line Interface (CLI) 00:11:02
  6. Chapter 6 : Advanced vSphere 6.x Security
    1. vSphere 6.x Firewall Management 00:22:53
    2. vSphere 6.x Single Sign On (SSO) Architecture 00:24:18
    3. vSphere 6.x Certificate Management 00:24:34
    4. vSphere 6.x SSO Command Line Support Tools 00:05:43
  7. Chapter 7 : Administering and Managing vSphere 6.x Resources
    1. vSphere 6.x vFlash Pool Management 00:15:06
    2. vSphere 6.x Resource Pool Management 00:20:05
    3. vSphere 6.x Distributed Power Management (DPM) 00:21:12
  8. Chapter 8 : Managing vSphere 6.5 Availability Solutions
    1. Implementing and Managing vCenter Server Appliance Version 6.5 High Availability 00:19:38
    2. Implementing and Managing Symmetrical Multi-processing Fault Tolerance in vSphere Version 6.5 00:09:55
  9. Chapter 9 : Deploying and Consolidating vSphere 6.5 Data Center
    1. Implement and Configure Windows-Based vCenter Server Version 6.5 00:08:49
    2. Managing Image Profiles in a vSphere 6.5 Deployment 00:18:33
    3. Managing Host Profiles in a vSphere 6.5 Deployment 00:08:24
    4. Managing Auto-Deploy Caching Modes in vSphere 6.5 00:06:38
  10. Chapter 10 : Upgrading vSphere 6.x Deployments to vSphere 6.5
    1. Upgrade Manager Version 6.5 Installation and Configuration 00:22:37
    2. Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) Version 6.5 Installation and Configuration 00:13:10
    3. Upgrading vCenter Server Version 6.0 to Version 6.5 00:15:39
    4. Upgrading vSphere Version 6.0 to vSphere Version 6.5 00:19:13
  11. Chapter 11 : Troubleshooting vSphere 6.x
    1. Using the vm-support Tool 00:05:26
    2. Using the vm-support Toll for esxtop Replay Mode 00:07:14
    3. Advanced Packet Capture with the pktcap-uw Tool 00:14:17
    4. Managing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) in vSphere 6.x 00:39:02

Product information

  • Title: Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5
  • Author(s): Atindra Chaturvedi
  • Release date: February 2017
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781786469816