What this book covers
Chapter 1, vCenter Basic Tasks and Features, covers some basic solutions administrators may need to implement while working with vCenter.
Chapter 2, Increasing Environment Availability, covers availability solutions offered by vCenter, including High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance (FT), Admission Control, backup, and replication.
Chapter 3, Increasing Environment Scalability, describes vCenter features that can improve an administrator's efficiency. These features include templates, customizations, and host profiles.
Chapter 4, Improving Environment Efficiency, covers enhancements designed to improve an environment's efficiency.
Chapter 5, Optimizing Resource Usage, discovers options available to administrators to improve resource usage. These include Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Storage DRS, VM shares, limits and reservations, and network and storage I/O control.
Chapter 6, Basic Administrative Tasks, covers administrative tasks that allow increasing an administrator's control and visibility in the environment.
Chapter 7, Improving Environment Manageability, includes advice to improve an environment's manageability by utilizing tags, new commands, netdump, virtual switch backup, and PowerCLI.
