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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

You're reading from   Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286016
Length 598 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Karel Novak Karel Novak
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Paolo Valsecchi Paolo Valsecchi
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite FREE CHAPTER 2. Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure 3. Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment 4. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation 5. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5 6. Advanced Network Management 7. Advanced Storage Management 8. Advanced VM and Resource Management 9. Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting 10. Securing and Protecting Your Environment 11. Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading 12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery 13. Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5 14. Data and Workloads Protection

Managing data centers, clusters, and hosts

vCenter Server is a core component of the infrastructure that allows a centralized administration of hosts and VM for your environment. To ensure the maximum efficiency of the infrastructure, you need to consider how to administer VMs and their resource demands.

For optimal organization of the inventory, you need to create some virtual objects in vCenter Server to define a logical structure. The organization of the inventory requires some tasks to be performed, as follows:

  • Create data centers
  • Add hosts to the data centers
  • Build a logical infrastructure using folders
  • Set up networking (vSS and vDS)
  • Configure storage system (datastore and datastore cluster)
  • Create clusters (resource consolidation, vSphere HA, and vSphere DRS)
  • Create a resource pool (flexible management of resources)

In vCenter Server, there are four main views available...

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