Book description
A task-oriented guide with over 150 practical recipes to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere components
In Detail
VMware is still the undisputed leader in providing virtualization solutions ranging from server virtualization to storage and network virtualization. VMware vSphere is the industry's most complete and robust virtualization platform, transforming data centers into dramatically simplified cloud infrastructures.
VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook will walk you through the procedures involved in installing or upgrading your current vSphere environment to Version 5.5 and also help you perform the most common administration tasks ranging from configuring HA, DRS, and DPM, configuring storage and networking, to patching/upgrading using vSphere Update Manager, performing remote CLI operations using VMA, and monitoring the performance of a vSphere environment.
This book is written with simplified and to-the-point theory eliminating the need for lengthy reading before performing a task. Most of the tasks are accompanied with relevant screenshots and flowcharts to facilitate your understanding.
What You Will Learn
Upgrade your existing vSphere environment to vSphere 5.5 or build a new one
Autodeploy a large set of stateless/stateful ESXi hosts in your vSphere environment
Configure vSphere networking using standard or distributed virtual switches
Configure and manage FC, iSCSI, and NAS storage
Configure high availability, load distribution, and power savings on an ESXi cluster using vSphere HA, DRS, and DPM
Patch and upgrade the vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager
Use vSphere Management Assistant as a remote command-line interface
Discover the built-in tools available for monitoring the performance of a vSphere environment
Table of contents
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VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.5
- Introduction
- Downloading vCenter 5.5
- Carrying out pre-upgrade checks
- Upgrading the Single Sign-On component
- Upgrading the vSphere Web Client
- Upgrading the vCenter Inventory Service
- Performing an upgrade of vCenter Server
- Upgrading ESXi to Version 5.5
- Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to Version 5.5
- Upgrading VMware Tools
- Upgrading the virtual machine hardware
- Scheduling the virtual machine hardware upgrade
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2. Performing a New Installation of vSphere 5.5
- Introduction
- Installing ESXi 5.5
- Configuring the ESXi Management Network
- Installing vCenter 5.5
- Adding an additional Identity Source to the SSO server
- Assigning users/groups to the vCenter Server
- Deploying SSO for the vCenter Linked Mode
- Creating a vCenter Linked Mode group
- Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 5.5
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3. Using vSphere Host Profiles
- Introduction
- Preparing a reference host
- Creating a Host Profile
- Exporting a Host Profile
- Importing a Host Profile
- Duplicating a Host Profile
- Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile
- Verifying the profile compliance of an ESXi host
- Remediating an ESXi host for profile compliance
- Using Host Profiles to push a new configuration change
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4. Using ESXi Image Builder
- Introduction
- Downloading an ESXi offline bundle
- Creating an image profile by cloning a predefined profile
- Removing an ESXi image profile
- Adding a VIB (software package) to an image profile
- Adding the HA VIB to the image profile
- Exporting an image profile as an ISO or offline bundle
- Creating an image profile from scratch
- Applying an image profile to the host
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5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy
- Introduction
- Installing an Auto Deploy server
- Configuring a TFTP Server with Auto Deploy files
- Configuring the DHCP server for PXE boot
- Testing the PXE boot configuration
- Preparing VMware PowerCLI for first use
- Preparing vSphere Auto Deploy for provisioning
- Choosing an ESXi Image Profile to deploy
- Creating a Host Profile
- Creating a deploy rule
- Activating a deploy rule
- Testing Auto Deploy
- Enabling Stateless Caching
- Performing an Auto Deploy stateful install
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6. Configuring vSphere Networking
- Introduction
- Creating a vSphere Standard Switch
- Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch
- Creating a VMkernel interface on a standard vSwitch
- Deleting a port group from a standard vSwitch
- Adding an uplink to a standard vSwitch
- Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Creating a distributed port group
- Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink
- Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming and failover on a vSwitch and a VDS
- Migrating VMkernel interfaces between a standard vSwitch and VDS
- Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a VDS
- Creating a backup of a VDS
- Restoring a VDS configuration
- Importing a VDS into the data center from a backup
- Creating Network Resource Pools on a VDS
- Enabling port mirroring on a VDS
- Enabling NetFlow on a VDS
- Configuring private VLANs on a VDS
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7. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
- Introduction
- Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host
- Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi hosts
- Viewing and changing the multipathing of a LUN
- Creating a VMFS datastore
- Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore
- Extending a VMFS datastore
- Unmounting a VMFS datastore
- Mounting a VMFS datastore
- Deleting a VMFS datastore
- Upgrading from VMFS3 to VMFS5
- Mounting VMFS from a snapshot LUN
- Resignaturing VMFS on a snapshot LUN
- Masking paths to a LUN
- Unmasking paths to a LUN
- Creating a datastore cluster
- Enabling Storage DRS
- 8. Managing iSCSI and NFS Datastores
- 9. vSphere Storage Policies and Storage I/O Control
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10. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
- Introduction
- Creating a virtual machine
- Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine
- Adding an existing hard disk to a virtual machine
- Attaching RDM to a virtual machine
- Mapping a virtual machine's vNIC to a different port group
- Adding a new virtual network adapter to a virtual machine
- Creating a virtual machine snapshot
- Deleting a virtual machine snapshot
- Reverting to a current virtual machine snapshot
- Switching to an arbitrary virtual machine snapshot
- Consolidating snapshots
- Exporting a virtual machine
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11. Configuring vSphere HA
- Introduction
- Enabling vSphere HA on a cluster
- Configuring vSphere HA Admission Control
- Setting the host isolation response for an HA cluster
- Setting the VM restart priority for an HA cluster
- Configuring VM monitoring
- Configuring datastore heartbeating
- Configuring a VM to override host monitoring and VM monitoring settings
- Disabling host monitoring
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12. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
- Introduction
- Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster
- Configuring VMware EVC
- Choosing a DRS automation level
- Overriding the cluster automation level for a VM
- Setting a migration threshold
- Creating DRS host groups
- Creating DRS VM groups
- Creating VMs to the host affinity rules
- Creating VM affinity/anti-affinity rules
- Configuring vSphere Distributed Power Management
- Enabling power management on a per-host level
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13. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager
- Introduction
- Preparing database connectivity for VUM
- Installing vSphere Update Manager
- Installing the vSphere Update Manager plugin
- Adding a download source
- Creating a baseline
- Importing ESXi Images
- Creating a host baseline group
- Creating a VM and VA baseline group
- Remediating a host or a cluster
- Remediating a VM or a VA
- Staging patches
- Installing the Update Manager Download Service
- Configuring UMDS and downloading data
- Creating a shared repository
- Using a shared repository
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14. Using vSphere Management Assistant
- Introduction
- Deploying the vMA appliance
- Preparing VMware vMA for first use
- Configuring VMware vMA to join an existing domain
- Adding vCenter to vMA with AD authentication
- Adding vCenter to vMA with fastpass (fpauth) authentication
- Adding an ESXi host to vMA
- Reconfiguring an added target server
- Running CLI commands on target servers
- Updating the vMA
- 15. Monitoring the Performance of a vSphere Environment
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2015
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782172857
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