February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
14h 22m
English
book
VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition
by Edward Haletky
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Chapter 9. Configuring ESX from a Virtual Center or Host
This chapter is really a continuation of Chapter 8, “Configuring ESX from a Host Connection.” However, this chapter makes use of the vSphere Client (vSC) connected to either the host or through the VMware vCenter Server (vCenter). This chapter continues the Rosetta stone approach to configuring the ESX host following the steps that I find most useful. Although these steps are by no means a complete list of configuration tasks, most common and some uncommon ones are discussed.
Most, if not all, the CLI methods listed within this chapter will eventually disappear as ESXi becomes more prevalent. As such, it is important to start using one of the vSphere SDK toolsets to make all your necessary ...