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VMware vCenter Cookbook
VMware vCenter Cookbook

VMware vCenter Cookbook: Over 65 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently manage your vSphere environment with VMware vCenter

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If you are a system administrator who has some experience with virtualization and already uses VMware vCenter, but wishes to learn more, then this is the book for you. If you are looking for tips or shortcuts for common administration tasks as well as workarounds for pain points in vSphere administration, you'll find this guide useful.

What you will learn

  • Manage your virtual environment faster and in a more efficient manner
  • Easily implement and start using new vCenter features
  • Scale an existing virtual environment quickly
  • Optimize resource usage across virtual infrastructures
  • Prioritize VMs with resource pools
  • Perform simple and advanced administrative tasks using VMware
  • Discover tips on task optimization that will let you have more time for important tasks

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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
1. vCenter Basic Tasks and Features Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Increasing Environment Availability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Increasing Environment Scalability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Improving Environment Efficiency Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Optimizing Resource Usage Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Basic Administrative Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Improving Environment Manageability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Art.C Jul 07, 2015
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VMware vCenter Cookbook by Konstantin Kuminsky offers in-depth view on how to create and setup a new virtual environment. Whether you are just starting up with VMware or you have been managing multiple hosts. As a systems administrator for over 25 years I find this book very impressive and useful to have for all types of questions that relate to VMware functionality and reliability. As today’s technology advances you need to be able to provide and manage high scalability and availability infer structure. This book covers the necessary steps for creating and managing a healthy environment. The quick reference guides in this book provide the ability to manage multiple VM Hosts, how to create Templates to deploy VM’s much faster. How to prioritize vCPU’s to the VM’s that need the most. This book uses the latest version of VSphere 5 as the main platform which includes HA features, VM delivery and customization and network performance. Any of these points are very important to the overall performance of the VSphere Environment. Great keeper for me as it improves my ability to manage VM’s and helps out in planning for the future. I’d rather have the how to? On hand as a quick reference guide. This book provides the tools for a Great VMware vCenter.
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Kim Bottu Jul 03, 2015
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For some years now my main focus has been virtualization using VMware technology.Konstantin Kuminsky's book provides a good reference work where it comes to vCenter server in all its day to day functionality. If you are new to VMware technology or just want a refresh about what VMware vCenter server can do for you, I would advise this book.Kim
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Jason G. Boche Jul 28, 2015
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Back in June, I was extended an offer from PACKT Publishing to review a new VMware book. I’ve got a lot on my plate at the moment but it sounded like an easier read and I appreciated the offer as well as the accommodation of my request for paperback in lieu of electronic copy so I accepted. I finished reading it this past weekend.The book’s title is VMware vCenter Cookbook and it is PACKT’s latest addition to an already extensive Cookbook series (Interested in Docker, DevOps, or Data Science? There’s Cookbooks for that). Although it was first published in May 2015, the content isn’t quite so new as its coverage includes vSphere 5, and vSphere 5 only with specific focus on vSphere management via vCenter Server as the title of the book indicates. The author is Konstantin Kuminsky and as I mentioned earlier the book is made available in both Kindle and paperback formats.Admittedly I’m not familiar with PACKT’s other Cookbooks but the formula for this one is much the same as the others I imagine: “Over 65 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently manage your vSphere environment with VMware vCenter”. Each of the recipes ties to a management task that an Administrator of a vSphere environment might need to carry out day to day, weekly, monthly, or perhaps annually. Some of the recipes can also be associated with and aid in design, architecture, and planning although I would not say these are not the main areas of focus. The majority of the text is operational in nature.The recipes are organized by chapter and while going from one to the next, there may be a correlation, but often there is not. It should be clear at this point it reads like a cookbook, and not a mystery novel (although for review purposes I did read it cover to cover). Find the vCenter how-to recipe you need via the Table of Contents or the index and follow it. Expect no more and no less.Speaking of the Table of Contents… Chapter 1: vCenter Basic Tasks and Features Chapter 2: Increasing Environment Availability Chapter 3: Increasing Environment Scalability Chapter 4: Improving Environment Efficiency Chapter 5: Optimizing Resource Usage Chapter 6: Basic Administrative Tasks Chapter 7: Improving Environment ManageabilityIt’s a desktop reference (or handheld I suppose depending on your preferred consumption model) which walks you through vSphere packaging and licensing on one page, and NUMA architecture on the next. The focus is vCenter Server and perhaps more accurately vSphere management. Fortunately that means there is quite a bit of ESXi coverage as well with management inroads from vCenter, PowerShell, and esxcli. Both Windows and appliance vCenter Server editions are included as well as equally fair coverage of both vSphere legacy client and vSphere web client.Bottom line: It’s a good book but it would have been better had it been released at least a year or two earlier. Without vSphere 6 coverage, there’s not a lot of mileage left on the odometer. In fairness I will state that many of the recipes will translate identically or closely to vSphere 6, but not all of them. To provide a few examples, VM templates and their best operational practices haven’t changed that much. On the other hand, there are significant differences between FT capabilities and limitations between vSphere 5 and vSphere 6. From a technical perspective, I found it pretty spot on which means the author and/or the reviewers did a fine job.Thank you PACKT Publishing for the book and the opportunity.
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Mike nelson Jul 04, 2015
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I am a virtualization professional with over 2 decades of IT experience and have been using vCenter since it's inception. I found this book to be a rather good reference for anyone who directly administrates vSphere and works with vCenter. I also found it to be an great reference for the I.T. Generalist, who wears many hats and needs this type of "go-to" reference to assist them in their daily work, which can become very complex. i found the "recipes" quite useful for the novice and quite possibly even a quick refresher for the intermediate user. the books chapters are organized well, and the highlighting of relevant reference material from VMware is a nice add. one recommendation is that the book should have included vSphere 4.x information as well for legacy environments, and a lead-in to the possible new edition for the vSphere 6.x version as well.Overall, I would recommend this book and it has found a spot in my reference library. Nice work Konstantin!
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