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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Mathias Meyenburg

Cedric Rajendran

Abhilash G B

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Importing a software depot

The very first step before you can create, clone, or manage image profiles, is to present the VMware ESXi Image Builder with a software depot. As introduced at the beginning of the chapter, a software depot is nothing but an ESXi offline bundle presented to the Image Builder.

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the steps involved in importing a software depot from an offline bundle:

Log in to the vSphere Web Client and navigate to the Auto Deploy plugin screen.
On the Auto Deploy screen, navigate to the Software Depots tab and click on the icon to bring up the Import Software Depot window:

On the Import Software Depot window, supply a Name for the depot and click Browse...

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Authors (3)

Abhilash G B

Abhilash G B is a virtualization specialist, author, and a VMware vExpert (2014-2019). His primary focus is in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the beginning of 2007. He holds several VMware certifications, including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-NV. He is also the author of six other publications.

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Meyenburg

Mathias Meyenburg has been the managing director of vleet GmbH since January 1, 2019. He has more than 15 years' experience in the IT industry. Starting as a system administrator, his career has progressed to operating and administering large-scale international data centers. He has constantly updated and expanded his know-how and acquired advanced certifications, such as CCNA, MCP, and VCP. vleet GmbH sought him out in 2016 as a solution architect for the whole VMware SDDC stack, Horizon desktop virtualization, Horizon Cloud on Azure, and VMC on AWS.

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Rajendran

Cedric Rajendran is a senior staff engineer in technical support with VMware. He has around 13 years of experience covering a wide spectrum of technologies. He holds a master's degree specializing in International Business. He has served in the fields of Network Ops, Technical Support, and Consulting. His core strengths are on the server and storage virtualization. He has authored a book on VMware Virtual SAN, holds advanced certifications with VMware, and is also a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect.

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