Book description
This recipe-driven tutorial is the easy way to master VMware vSphere to design a virtual datacenter. You'll learn in simple steps that cover everything from initial groundwork to creating professional design documentation.
In Detail
VMware vSphere 5.x provides a robust and resilient platform for virtualizing server and application workloads in datacenters. The features available in VMware's vSphere 5.x suite of products simplify the management of resources, increase the availability of applications, and guarantee the performance of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenters. "VMware vSphere 5.x Design Cookbook" covers the design process from creating the conceptual design, to determining the resource requirements for the logical design, and then on to creating the physical design.
"VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook" begins with the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process in order to create a successful vSphere 5.x design. The key to a successful VMware vSphere 5.x design is the design's ability to satisfy the design factors. This Cookbook walks you through the process of identifying the design factors which include the requirements the design must satisfy and the assumptions the architect makes to form the conceptual design.
From the conceptual design, the logical design is created. The logical design process includes determining the architecture of and the resources required for the management, storage, network, and compute resources. This Cookbook includes recipes for calculating the resources required and determining the architecture and features to use while applying VMware recommended practices.
The physical design takes the logical design requirements and maps them to the physical infrastructure required to support the resources. "VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook" offers recipes to determine the physical resources and configuration required to support the logical design while satisfying the design factors. Finally, the book provides recipes for creating design documentation. Documenting the design, the implementation procedures, and the verification procedures are also covered towards the end of the book.
What You Will Learn
- Identify key factors related to a vSphere design and apply them to every step of the design process
- Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
- 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
Publisher resources
Table of contents
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VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. The Virtual Datacenter
- 2. The Discovery Process
- 3. The Design Factors
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4. The vSphere Management Design
- Introduction
- Identifying vCenter components and dependencies
- Selecting a vCenter deployment option
- Determining the vCenter system requirements
- Selecting a database for vCenter deployment
- Determining database interoperability
- Choosing a vCenter Single Sign-On deployment mode
- Designing for management availability
- Backing up the vCenter Server components
- Using vCenter Server Heartbeat to provide vCenter availability
- Securing the management components
- Designing a separate management cluster
- 5. The vSphere Storage Design
- 6. The vSphere Network Design
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7. The vSphere Compute Design
- Introduction
- Calculating CPU resource requirements
- Calculating memory resource requirements
- 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
- 8. The vSphere Physical Design
- 9. The Virtual Machine Design
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10. 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
- 11. The Design Documentation
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782177005
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