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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook Practical recipes to deploy, configure, and manage VMware vSphere 6.7 components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789953008
Length 570 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Abhilash G B Abhilash G B
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Preface 1. Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 2. Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere 3. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches 4. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches 5. Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment 6. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores 7. SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage 8. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC 9. Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment 10. Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles 11. Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder 12. Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts 13. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 14. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager 15. Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates 16. Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating DRS VMs to Host Affinity Rules

We can create DRS affinity rules that will affect the VM migration or initial placement recommendations based on the virtual machine's affinity or anti-affinity relationship with a group of ESXi hosts.

The VM to Host affinity rules is generally used to meet specific requirements, such as licensing and access to hardware resources. For instance, let's say you have a set of VMs that need access to a directly attached tape library. Here, you can create a Must Rule to ensure that the VMs are always placed on the hosts that have access to the tape library.

Getting ready

The VMs to hosts DRS affinity rules cannot be applied to individual hosts or VMs. Therefore, we will need to group...

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