Book description
Achieve the performance, scalability, and ROI your business needs
What can you do at the start of a virtualization deployment to make things run more smoothly? If you plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize vSphere solutions in your company, this unique book provides keen insight and solutions. From hardware selection, network layout, and security considerations to storage and hypervisors, this book explains the design decisions you'll face and how to make the right choices.
Written by two virtualization experts and packed with real-world strategies and examples, VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition will help you design smart design decisions.
Shows IT administrators how plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize vSphere virtualization solutions
Explains the design decisions typically encountered at every step in the process and how to make the right choices
Covers server hardware selection, network topology, security, storage, virtual machine design, and more
Topics include ESXi hypervisors deployment, vSwitches versus dvSwitches, and FC, FCoE, iSCSI, or NFS storage
Find out the "why" behind virtualization design decisions and make better choices, with VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition, which has been fully updated for vSphere 5.x.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Publisher's Note
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Designing VMware Environments
- Chapter 2: The ESXi Hypervisor
- Chapter 3: The Management Layer
- Chapter 4: Server Hardware
- Chapter 5: Designing Your Network
- Chapter 6: Storage
- Chapter 7: Virtual Machines
- Chapter 8: Datacenter Design
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Chapter 9: Designing with Security in Mind
- Why Is Security Important?
- Separation of Duties
- vCenter Server Permissions
- Security in vCenter Linked Mode
- Command-Line Access to ESXi Hosts
- Managing Network Access
- The DMZ
- Firewalls in the Virtual Infrastructure
- Change Management
- Protecting the VMs
- Protecting the Data
- Cloud Computing
- Auditing and Compliance
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Monitoring and Capacity Planning
- Chapter 11: Bringing a vSphere Design Together
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Chapter 12: vCloud Design
- Differences between Cloud and Server Virtualization
- Role of vCloud Director in Cloud Architecture
- vCloud Director Use Cases
- Components of the vCloud Management Stack
- vCloud Cell and NFS Design Considerations
- Management vs. Consumable Resources
- Database Concepts
- vCenter Design
- vCloud Management: Physical Design
- The Physical Side of Provider Virtual Datacenters
- The Logical Side of Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Network Pool Decisions
- External Networks
- Designing Organizations, Catalogs, and Policies
- Correlating Organizational Networks to Design
- End Users and vApp Networking
- Designing Organization Virtual Datacenters
- Multiple Sites
- Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Summary
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2013
- Publisher(s): Sybex
- ISBN: 9781118407912
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