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VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook This recipe-driven tutorial is the easy way to master VMware vSphere to design a virtual datacenter. You'll learn in simple steps that cover everything from initial groundwork to creating professional design documentation.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782177005
Length 260 pages
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. The Virtual Datacenter FREE CHAPTER 2. The Discovery Process 3. The Design Factors 4. The vSphere Management Design 5. The vSphere Storage Design 6. The vSphere Network Design 7. The vSphere Compute Design 8. The vSphere Physical Design 9. The Virtual Machine Design 10. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 11. The Design Documentation Index

Designing for management availability


The availability of the management functions of an environment becomes more critical; for example, in virtual desktop environments and other self-service provisioning environments. In these environments, if the vCenter Server is unavailable, so is the ability to provide the provisioning of services.

If the environment does not provide these type of services, the ability to manage the environment, especially during a failure or disaster, is also critical. How can you troubleshoot an issue with a virtual machine or a group of virtual machines if the primary tool that is used to manage the environment is unavailable?

How to do it…

To properly design for management availability, follow these steps:

  1. Identify management environment dependencies.

  2. Identify the potential single points of failure in the management environment.

  3. Create a management design that ensures high availability of the management components.

How it works…

When designing the management network, single...

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