Book description
Proven, actionable ways to install, manage, secure and monitor your vSphere 6.7 environments
Key Features
- Get up to speed with the installation and life cycle management of a vSphere 6.7 environment, using a task-based approach
- Secure your vSphere environment using SSL Certificates
- Get introduced to the tools that are used to monitor the performance of the vSphere Environment
Book Description
VMware vSphere is the most comprehensive core suite of SDDC solutions on the market. It helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises private cloud infrastructures. This edition of the book focuses on the latest version, vSphere 6.7.
The books starts with chapters covering the greenfield deployment of vSphere 6.7 components and the upgrade of existing vSphere components to 6.7. You will then learn how to configure storage and network access for a vSphere environment. Get to grips with optimizing your vSphere environment for resource distribution and utilization using features such as DRS and DPM, along with enabling high availability for vSphere components using vSphere HA, VMware FT, and VCHA. Then, you will learn how to facilitate large-scale deployment of stateless/stateful ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy. Finally, you will explore how to upgrade/patch a vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager, secure it using SSL certificates, and then monitor its performance with tools such as vSphere Performance Charts and esxtop.
By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in the core functionalities of vSphere 6.7 and be able to effectively deploy, manage, secure, and monitor your environment.
What you will learn
- Deploy a new vSphere 6.7 environment or upgrade an existing vSphere environment to version 6.7
- Learn how to configure and manage storage and network access for a vSphere environment
- Enable high availability for Hosts, VMs and vCenter Server
- Optimize your vSphere environment for resource distribution/utilization
- Patch or upgrade a vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager
- Secure vSphere infrastructure components using SSL certificates
- Effectively monitor the performance of your vSphere environment
Who this book is for
If you are a systems administrator, support engineer, or anyone who wants to learn how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment in a quick, hands-on manner, then this book is for you. Consultants and infrastructure architects who wish to design and deploy vSphere 6.7 environments will also find this book helpful.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
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Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure
- Installing ESXi – the interactive method
- Configuring the ESXi Management Network
- Scripted deployment of ESXi
- Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
- Deploying vCenters in a Linked Mode configuration
- Configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) identity sources
- Configuring vCenter Roles and Permissions
- Joining ESXi to an Active Directory domain
- Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere
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Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches
- Creating vSphere Standard Switches
- Creating Virtual Machine Port Groups on vSphere Standard Switches
- Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on vSphere Standard Switches
- Creating additional VMkernel TCP/IP stacks
- Managing the Physical Uplinks of a vSphere Standard Switch
- Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming and Failover
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Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches
- Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS)
- Connecting ESXi hosts to a vDS
- Creating Distributed Port Groups (dvPortGroup)
- Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming, and Failover
- Configuring VLANs on vDS
- Configuring Private VLANs on a vDS
- Configuring a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) on a vDS
- Configuring user-defined network pools—NIOC
- Migrating Virtual Machine Network from vSS to vDS
- Migrating VMkernel interfaces from vSS to vDS
- Configuring port mirroring on vDS
- Configuring NetFlow on vDS
- Upgrading a vDS
- Backing up and restoring a vDS
- Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment
- Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
- SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage
- Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
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Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment
- Enabling vSphere High Availability
- Configuring vCenter Admission Control
- Configuring Heartbeat Datastores
- Overriding Restart Priority for Virtual Machines
- Creating VM to VM Dependency Rules
- Disabling Host Monitoring
- Enabling Virtual Machine Monitoring
- Enabling Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP)
- Configuring vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
- Configuring vCenter Native High Availability (VCHA)
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Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles
- Creating Host Profiles
- Associating Host Profiles with ESXi hosts or clusters
- Checking Host Profile Compliance
- Scheduling Host Profile Compliance Checks
- Performing Host Customizations
- Remediating non-compliant Hosts
- Using Host Profiles to push a configuration change
- Copying settings between Host Profiles
- Exporting Host Profiles
- Importing Host Profiles
- Duplicating Host Profiles
- Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder
- Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts
- Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
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Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager
- Downloading Patch Definitions
- Creating Patch Baselines
- Creating Host Upgrade Baselines
- Creating Baseline Groups
- Configuring Update Manager's Remediation Settings
- Patching/upgrading ESXi hosts using Update Manager
- Upgrading VMware Tools and virtual hardware using Update Manager
- Installing the Update Manager Download Service on Linux
- Configuring UMDS to download patches
- Configuring a Web Server on UMDS (Linux)
- Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates
- Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook - Fourth Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2019
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789953008
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