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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7

You're reading from   Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 Master your virtual environment with this ultimate vSphere guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119512943
Length 848 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ryan Johnson Ryan Johnson
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Mike Brown Mike Brown
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G. Blair Fritz G. Blair Fritz
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Nick Marshall Nick Marshall
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

1. Cover FREE CHAPTER
2. Acknowledgments
3. About the Author
4. About the Contributors
5. Foreword
6. Introduction 7. Chapter 1: Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7 8. Chapter 2: Planning and Installing VMware ESXi 9. Chapter 3: Installing and Configuring vCenter Server 10. Chapter 4: vSphere Update Manager and the vCenter Support Tools 11. Chapter 5: Creating and Configuring a vSphere Network 12. Chapter 6: Creating and Configuring Storage Devices 13. Chapter 7: Ensuring High Availability and Business Continuity 14. Chapter 8: Securing VMware vSphere 15. Chapter 9: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 16. Chapter 10: Using Templates and vApps 17. Chapter 11: Managing Resource Allocation 18. Chapter 12: Balancing Resource Utilization 19. Chapter 13: Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance 20. Chapter 14: Automating VMware vSphere 21. Index
22. End User License Agreement
Appendix A: The Bottom Line

Chapter 2: Planning and Installing VMware ESXi

  • Understand ESXi compatibility requirements. Unlike traditional operating systems like Windows or Linux, ESXi has much stricter hardware compatibility requirements. This helps ensure a stable, well-tested product line that can support even the most mission-critical applications.
    • Master It You have some older servers onto which you'd like to deploy ESXi. They aren't on the Compatibility Guide. Will they work with ESXi?
    • Solution They might, but they won’t be fully supported by VMware. In all likelihood, the CPUs in these older servers don’t support some of the hardware virtualization extensions or don’t support 64-bit operation, both of which would directly impact the ability of ESXi to run on that hardware. You should choose only hardware that is on the Compatibility Guide.
  • Plan an ESXi deployment. Deploying ESXi will affect many different areas of your organization—not only the server team but also...
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