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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7,

You're reading from   Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, Effectively deploy, manage, and monitor your virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789613377
Length 756 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Paolo Valsecchi Paolo Valsecchi
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Martin Gavanda Martin Gavanda
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Andrea Mauro Andrea Mauro
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started FREE CHAPTER
2. Evolution to vSphere 6.7 3. Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure 4. Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments 5. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation 6. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7 7. Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading 8. Section 2: Managing Resources
9. Managing Networking Resources 10. Managing Storage Resources 11. VM Deployment and Management 12. VM Resource Management 13. Section 3: Advanced Topics
14. Availability and Disaster Recovery 15. Securing and Protecting Your Environment 16. Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment 17. Troubleshooting Your Environment 18. Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment
19. Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab 20. Assessment 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Architecture and logical design

You might have realized by now that building a lab isn't as simple as you might think. For those who are interested in how I built the lab that I used during the writing of this book, you can follow this detailed guide.

I chose to rent a dedicated server from OVH. This was for the following reasons:

  • For my on-site training, I needed a lot of resources (256 GB of RAM or more)
  • I did not need to run the server all the time
  • I did not want to pay any setup fees
  • I needed to be able to order as many public IP addresses as necessary for the project
  • There were months when I didn't need to run the lab at all
  • There were other months in which I needed a different hardware platform with different resources
  • I needed to access the lab from anywhere

Based on these requirements, I decided that it did not make sense to use my hardware because the costs...

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