VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition

Chapter 8. Configuring ESX from a Host Connection

There are many aspects of managing ESX and ESXi clusters. The key, however, is to first understand how to configure a single ESX host and from there branch out to multiple machines. Given that you can manage a host using the vSphere Client, PowerCLI, VMware Management Appliance (vMA), VMware PERL SDK, and so on, where do you start with ESX management? Should we dive directly into everyday management tasks? All our elders state to start at the beginning, so that is what we will do. In the previous chapters, the ESX or ESXi host has been chosen and installed; storage usage has been decided; and auditing has been considered, so now it is time to perform an initial configuration of ESX. The steps ...