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VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design  Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Over 75 practical recipes to confidently design an efficient virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785283468
Length 324 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Virtual Datacenter FREE CHAPTER 2. The Discovery Process 3. The Design Factors 4. vSphere Management Design 5. vSphere Storage Design 6. vSphere Network Design 7. vSphere Compute Design 8. vSphere Physical Design 9. Virtual Machine Design 10. vSphere Security Design 11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 12. Design Documentation Index

Providing network availability


Network availability is obtained by minimizing Single Points of Failure (SPOF) and providing sufficient capacity. Multiple network ports, network adapters, and physical switches can be used to minimize single points of failure, and link aggregation can be used to provide load balancing across multiple network adapters.

vSphere virtual network configurations offer multiple NIC teaming and load balancing options. The options used are dependent on the number of network adapters available, the number of virtual machines connected, the physical network's topology, and the amount of bandwidth required.

How to do it...

  1. Identify the availability options on virtual switches and virtual switch port groups.

  2. Determine the load balancing policies to provide availability based on the design requirements.

  3. Determine the network adapter teaming policies to provide availability based on the design requirements.

How it works…

Load balancing distributes the network load across multiple...

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