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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you design a powerful virtual infrastructure based on vSphere 6.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789801514
Length 392 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Hersey Cartwright Hersey Cartwright
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Mike Brown Mike Brown
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Virtual Data Center 2. The Discovery Process FREE CHAPTER 3. The Design Factors 4. vSphere Management Design 5. vSphere Storage Design 6. vSphere Network Design 7. vSphere Compute Design 8. vSphere Physical Design 9. Virtual Machine Design 10. vSphere Security Design 11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 12. Design Documentation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using paravirtualized VM hardware

Paravirtualization provides a direct communication path between the guest OS within the virtual machine and the ESXi hypervisor. Paravirtualized virtual hardware and the corresponding drivers that are installed with VMware Tools are optimized to provide improved performance and efficiency. This hardware includes the VMXNET network adapter and the PVSCSI storage adapter.

How to do it...

Adding paravirtualized hardware adapters to a virtual machine is done by using the following process:

  1. Access the Guest OS compatibility section of the VMware HCL at http://www.vmware.com/go/hcl to determine guest OS support for paravirtual adapters. A screenshot of the Guest OS compatibility HCL, along with...
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