Book description
Design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6.7
Key Features
- Get the first book on the market that helps you design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6.7
- Learn how to create professional vSphere design documentation to ensure a successful implementation
- A practical guide that will help you apply infrastructure design principles to vSphere design
Book Description
VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads.
This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more.
By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.
What you will learn
- Identify key factors related to a vSphere design
- Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design
- 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
Who this book is for
If you are an administrator or consultant interested in designing virtualized data center environments using VMware vSphere 6.x (or previous versions of vSphere and the supporting components), this book is for you.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- The Virtual Data Center
- The Discovery Process
- The Design Factors
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vSphere Management Design
- Identifying vCenter components and dependencies
- Selecting a vCenter deployment option
- Determining vCenter resource requirements
- Selecting a database for the vCenter deployment
- Determining database interoperability
- Choosing a vCenter deployment topology
- Designing for management availability
- Designing a separate management cluster
- Configuring vCenter mail, SNMP, and alarms
- Using Enhanced Linked Mode
- Using the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
- Backing up the vCenter Server components
- Planning vCenter HA to increase vCenter availability
- Upgrading vCenter Server
- Designing a vSphere Update Manager Deployment
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vSphere Storage Design
- Identifying RAID levels
- Calculating storage capacity requirements
- Determining storage performance requirements
- Calculating storage throughput
- Storage connectivity options
- Storage path selection plugins
- Sizing datastores
- Designing VSAN for virtual machine storage
- Using VMware Virtual Volumes
- Incorporating storage policies into a design
- NFS version 4.1 capabilities and limits
- Using persistent memory to maximize VM performance
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vSphere Network Design
- Determining network bandwidth requirements
- Standard or distributed virtual switches
- Providing network availability
- Network resource management
- Using private VLANs
- IP storage network design considerations
- Using jumbo frames
- Creating custom TCP/IP stacks
- Designing for VMkernel services
- vMotion network design considerations
- Using 10 GbE converged network adapters
- IPv6 in a vSphere design
- Remote direct memory access options
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vSphere Compute Design
- Calculating CPU resource requirements
- Calculating memory resource requirements
- Transparent page sharing
- 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
- Using resource pools
- Providing Fault Tolerance protection
- Leveraging host flash
- vSphere Physical Design
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Virtual Machine Design
- Right-sizing virtual machines
- Enabling CPU hot add and memory hot plug
- Using paravirtualized VM hardware
- Creating virtual machine templates
- Upgrading and installing VMware Tools
- Upgrading VM virtual hardware
- Using vApps to organize virtualized applications
- Using VM affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Using VM to Host affinity and anti-affinity rules
- Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone
- Migrating servers into vSphere
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vSphere Security Design
- Managing the single sign-on password policy
- Managing single sign-on identity sources
- Security design with the VMware Certificate Authority
- Using Active Directory for host authentication
- ESXi firewall configuration
- ESXi Lockdown Mode
- Configuring role-based access control
- Virtual network security
- Using the VMware vSphere 6 Hardening Guide
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Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Backing up ESXi host configurations
- Configuring ESXi host logging
- Backing up virtual distributed switch configurations
- Deploying Veeam Backup and Replication
- Using Veeam Backup and Replication to back up virtual machines
- Replicating virtual machines with vSphere Replication
- Protecting the virtual data center with Site Recovery Manager
- Design Documentation
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2019
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789801514
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