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You're reading from vSphere Virtual Machine Management This tutorial will help VMware administrators fine-tune and expand their expertise with vSphere. From creating and configuring virtual machines to optimizing performance, it's all here in a crystal clear series of chapters.

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2014

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ISBN-13 9781782172185

Length 326 pages

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vSphere

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Cloud Computing

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Rebecca Fitzhugh

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

vSphere Virtual Machine Management

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Preface

1. Virtual Machine Concepts FREE CHAPTER

2. Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard

3. Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine

4. Advanced Virtual Machine Settings

5. Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps

6. Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation

7. Monitoring Virtual Machines

8. Migrating Virtual Machines

9. Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability

10. Virtual Machine Design

Index

Cross-host Storage vMotion

vMotion can be used to migrate a virtual machine to a different host and datastore simultaneously; this is commonly known as a cross-host Storage vMotion or an Enhanced vMotion. In vSphere 5.1 and later, vMotion does not require environments with shared storage; virtual machines can now be migrated across storage accessibility boundaries.

This option is only available using the vSphere Web Client for a powered on virtual machine; a virtual machine can only simultaneously change host and datastore while powered off using the vSphere Client. This is useful when performing cross-cluster migration whenever the target cluster's ESXi hosts may not have access to the source cluster's storage.

Cross-host Storage vMotion is a manual process; DRS and Storage DRS do not leverage this feature.

No more than two concurrent cross-host Storage vMotion instances are allowed at a time on an ESXi host. Any further attempted instances will be queued until one of the active instances...

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