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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789801514

Length 392 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Hersey Cartwright

Mike Brown

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. The Virtual Data Center FREE CHAPTER

2. The Discovery Process

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

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The best practices for ESXi host BIOS settings

The BIOS settings will vary, depending on the hardware manufacturer and the BIOS version. Supported BIOS versions should be verified on the VMware HCL for the hardware selected. The following screenshot shows the HCL details of a Dell PowerEdge R620, with the supported BIOS versions:

HCL details with supported BIOS versions

If the hardware is supported but the running BIOS version is not supported, the BIOS should be upgraded to a supported version.

How to do it...

The BIOS manufacturer and the BIOS version will determine the BIOS settings available for a particular server. The following settings are provided as a guideline for optimizing the BIOS for an ESXi installation. Ask...

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Authors (2)

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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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.

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