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Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere

The goal of this chapter is to help you to understand, plan, and execute the process of upgrading your core vSphere infrastructure to VMware vSphere 6.7. The core includes your ESXi hypervisor, vCenter Server, and the vCenter Server's components. The upgrade of the third-layer products that leverage the core vSphere infrastructure, such as vRealize Automation, NSX, and VMware Horizon View, are not covered in this chapter as they are beyond the scope and purpose of this book.

Let me introduce you to the core infrastructure components that will be upgraded:

VMware vCenter Server: The viability of an upgrade or the need for a new build will depend on the current version of vCenter and the supported upgrade path.
vCenter Inventory Service: This is no longer a separate service in vCenter 6.5/6.7.
vSphere Web Client: The Web Client...

Key benefits

Get up to speed with the installation and life cycle management of a vSphere 6.7 environment, using a task-based approach

Secure your vSphere environment using SSL Certificates

Get introduced to the tools that are used to monitor the performance of the vSphere Environment

Description

VMware vSphere is the most comprehensive core suite of SDDC solutions on the market. It helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises private cloud infrastructures. This edition of the book focuses on the latest version, vSphere 6.7. The books starts with chapters covering the greenfield deployment of vSphere 6.7 components and the upgrade of existing vSphere components to 6.7. You will then learn how to configure storage and network access for a vSphere environment. Get to grips with optimizing your vSphere environment for resource distribution and utilization using features such as DRS and DPM, along with enabling high availability for vSphere components using vSphere HA, VMware FT, and VCHA. Then, you will learn how to facilitate large-scale deployment of stateless/stateful ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy. Finally, you will explore how to upgrade/patch a vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager, secure it using SSL certificates, and then monitor its performance with tools such as vSphere Performance Charts and esxtop. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in the core functionalities of vSphere 6.7 and be able to effectively deploy, manage, secure, and monitor your environment.

Who is this book for?

If you are a systems administrator, support engineer, or anyone who wants to learn how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment in a quick, hands-on manner, then this book is for you. Consultants and infrastructure architects who wish to design and deploy vSphere 6.7 environments will also find this book helpful.

What you will learn

Deploy a new vSphere 6.7 environment or upgrade an existing vSphere environment to version 6.7

Learn how to configure and manage storage and network access for a vSphere environment

Enable high availability for Hosts, VMs and vCenter Server

Optimize your vSphere environment for resource distribution/utilization

Patch or upgrade a vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager

Secure vSphere infrastructure components using SSL certificates

Effectively monitor the performance of your vSphere environment

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