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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7

You're reading from Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 Master your virtual environment with this ultimate vSphere guide

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Wiley

ISBN-13 9781119512943

Length 848 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Servers

Authors (4):

Ryan Johnson

Mike Brown

G. Blair Fritz

Nick Marshall

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

1. Cover FREE CHAPTER

2. Acknowledgments

3. About the Author

4. About the Contributors

5. Foreword

6. Introduction

7. Chapter 1: Introducing VMware vSphere 6.7

8. Chapter 2: Planning and Installing VMware ESXi

9. Chapter 3: Installing and Configuring vCenter Server

10. Chapter 4: vSphere Update Manager and the vCenter Support Tools

11. Chapter 5: Creating and Configuring a vSphere Network

12. Chapter 6: Creating and Configuring Storage Devices

13. Chapter 7: Ensuring High Availability and Business Continuity

14. Chapter 8: Securing VMware vSphere

15. Chapter 9: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

16. Chapter 10: Using Templates and vApps

17. Chapter 11: Managing Resource Allocation

18. Chapter 12: Balancing Resource Utilization

19. Chapter 13: Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance

20. Chapter 14: Automating VMware vSphere

21. Index

22. End User License Agreement

Appendix A: The Bottom Line

Installing VMware Tools

Although VMware Tools is not installed by default, the package is an important part of a VM. VMware Tools offers several great benefits without any detriments. Recall from the beginning of this chapter that VMware vSphere offers certain virtualization-optimized (or paravirtualized) devices to VMs in order to improve performance. In many cases, these paravirtualized devices do not have device drivers present in a standard installation of a guest OS. The device drivers for these devices are provided by VMware Tools, which is just one more reason why VMware Tools is an essential part of every VM and guest OS installation.

In other words, installing VMware Tools should be standard practice and not an optional step in the deployment of a VM. The VMware Tools package provides the following benefits:

Optimized NIC drivers.
Optimized SCSI drivers.
Enhanced video and mouse drivers.
VM heartbeat.
VSS support to enable guest quiescing for snapshots and backups. Many VMware...

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Authors (4)

Nick Marshall

Nick Marshall

Nick Marshall is a Senior Integration Architect with nearly 20 years of IT experience. He is currently working for VMware in the Integrated Systems Business Unit. Previously, Nick has worked in several roles, ranging from computer assembler to infrastructure architect, to product manager. Nick loves to solve business problems with technical solutions.

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Ryan Johnson

Ryan Johnson

Ryan John is a graduate of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where he spent 3 years as a Technical Assistant for the pilot program of the Instructure Canvas Learning Management System at Rider University. While at Rider and Westminster, he served as a Technical Assistant, Course Designer, and Course Consultant for over a dozen courses offered by Westminster Choir College, the Westminster Office of Continuing Education, and the Westminster Center for Critical Pedagogy. During Rider's university-wide implementation of the Instructure Canvas LMS, he assisted with faculty training sessions and individual tutorials in course organization, design, and management. In addition to his work in online course design, Ryan serves on the editorial board of Visions of Research in Music Education, the scholarly journal of the New Jersey Music Educators Association. He has worked as a freelance copy editor, both privately and for GIA Publications, and he has been a music editorial intern at Oxford University Press. He is currently the Upper School Choral Director at Léman Manhattan Preparatory School in New York City.

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G. Blair Fritz

G. Blair Fritz

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Mike Brown

Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.

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