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You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook If you prefer practice to theory then this is the ideal book for learning how to install and configure VMware vSphere components. Packed with recipes, it's a hands-on tutorial and reference guide for this unbeatable virtualization product.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849684026

Length 466 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Abhilash G B

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1

3. vSphere Auto Deploy

4. ESXi Image Builder

5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

6. Managing iSCSI and NFS Storage

7. Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control

8. Configuring the vSphere Network

9. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

10. Configuring vSphere HA

11. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

12. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

13. Using vSphere Management Assistant (vMA 5.1)

Index

Installing ESXi 5.1

ESXi 5.1 does not have a graphical installer. A new installation of ESXi 5.1 will now use a GUID Partition Table (GPT) instead of MBR, hence enabling the use of disks greater than 2 TB for installation.

Note

A new installation of ESXi 5.1 will create a 4 GB scratch partition and the remainder of the disk space will be formatted using VMFS.

Installation of ESXi 5.1 is pretty straightforward. It is recommended that you refer to the VMware Compatibility Guide web page to verify whether the server hardware is compatible with ESXi 5.1, available at the following link:

http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

For a complete list of hardware requirements, please refer to page 26 of the ESX Server Installation and Setup guide, available at the following link:

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html

You could download the ESXi 5.1 ISO from the following link:

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure...