VMware vSphere 6.5 cookbook over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, and manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components
Deploy and manage VMware vSphere 6.5 components with ease. About This Book Simplified and to-the-point theory and practical recipes to deploy and manage vSphere 6.5 Discover the best ways to deploy stateless and stateful ESXi hosts and upgrade them Storage and network resource management Certificate...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing
2018.
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| Edición: | Third edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009631365506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Upgrading to vSphere 6.5
- Introduction
- vSphere 6.5 core components
- Hypervisor - VMware ESXi 6.5
- Core management layer - VMware vCenter 6.5
- Authentication and core services layer - vSphere Platform Services Controller
- Upgrade and patch management layer - vCenter Update Manager 6.5
- Planning vSphere upgrade
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Upgrading from vSphere 5.5 or 6.0 to vSphere 6.5
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Upgrading vCenter Server running Microsoft Windows
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Using the vCenter 6.5 Migration Assistant
- How to do it...
- Upgrading vCenter Server - Migrating from Microsoft Windows to VCSA
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Upgrading ESXi Hypervisor
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- There is more...
- Chapter 2: Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5
- Introduction
- Deploying vSphere ESXi 6.5
- Getting ready
- Downloading ESXi 6.5 and mapping it to the server
- How to do it...
- Configuring ESXi Management Network
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- There is more...
- Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 6.5
- How to do it...
- Deploying External Platform Services controllers
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Part 1 - Deploying a PSC for a new SSO domain
- Part 2 - Joining a PSC to an existing SSO domain
- How it works...
- VMware Certificate Authority
- VMware Single Sign-On
- VMware licensing service
- Deploying vCenter Servers in Enhanced Linked Mode
- How to do it...
- Configuring SSO identity sources
- How to do it...
- Assigning users and groups to vCenter Server
- Getting ready
- How to do it.
- Chapter 3: Using vSphere Host Profiles
- Introduction
- Preparing a reference host
- How to do it...
- Creating Host Profiles
- Getting ready
- How it works...
- How it works...
- Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile
- How to do it...
- Performing host customizations
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Checking Host Profile compliance of ESXi host(s)
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Scheduling Host Profile compliance checks
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Remediating non-compliant ESXi hosts
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Using Host Profiles to push a configuration change
- How to do it...
- Copying settings between Host Profiles
- How to do it...
- Exporting Host Profiles
- How to do it...
- Importing Host Profiles
- How to do it...
- Duplicating Host Profiles
- How to do it...
- Chapter 4: Using ESXi Image Builder
- Introduction
- vSphere ESXi Image Builder architecture
- Enabling ESXi Image Builder service for vSphere Web Client GUI
- How to do it...
- Preparing an ESXi Image Builder CLI environment
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Downloading an ESXi offline bundle
- How to do it...
- Importing a software depot
- How to do it...
- There's more...
- Creating an online software depot
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- There's more...
- Creating a custom depot
- How to do it...
- Creating image profiles using an existing image profile
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- There's more....
- Creating image profiles from scratch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- There's more...
- Comparing image profiles
- How to do it...
- Moving image profiles between software depots
- How to do it...
- Exporting image profiles
- How to do it...
- There's more...
- Chapter 5: Using vSphere Auto Deploy
- Introduction.
- vSphere auto deploy architecture
- Enabling vSphere auto deploy service
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Configuring TFTP server with the files required to PXE boot
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Configuring the DHCP server to work with auto deploy
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Preparing vSphere environment - create host profile, configure the deploy rules and activate them
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Enabling stateless caching
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Enabling stateful install
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Chapter 6: Using vSphere Standard Switches
- Introduction
- Creating a vSphere Standard Switch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- There is more...
- Creating VMkernel interfaces on a vSphere Standard Switch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- There is more...
- Creating custom VMkernel TCP/IP stacks
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Creating virtual machine port groups on a vSphere Standard Switch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- There is more...
- Managing the physical uplinks of a vSwitch
- There is more...
- Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on a vSphere Standard Switch
- How to do it...
- Chapter 7: Using vSphere Distributed Switches
- Introduction
- Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Connecting hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
- How to do it...
- Creating a vSphere Distributed port group
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Port binding
- Port allocation
- Network resource pools
- Managing physical adapter (vmnic) to dvUplink mappings
- How to do it...
- Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch (vSwitch ) to a vSphere Distributed Switch (dvSwitch)
- Getting ready.
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Migrating VMkernel interfaces between vSphere Standard (vSwitch) and vSphere Distributed Switches (dvSwitch)
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a vSphere Distributed Switch (dvSwitch)
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch backup
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Restoring dvSwitch from a backup
- How to do it...
- Creating or importing a dvSwitch from a backup
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on a dvSwitch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Security
- Promiscuous mode
- MAC address changes and forged transmits
- Traffic shaping
- Teaming and failover
- Network failure detection
- Notify switches
- Failback
- Failover order
- Configuring VLANs on a vSphere Standard or Distributed Switch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- External switch tagging
- Virtual Switch Tagging
- Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT)
- Configuring private VLANs on a dvSwitch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Configuring LAGs on a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Creating user-defined network resource pools
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- There's more...
- Using port mirroring on a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Enabling NetFlow on a vSphere Distributed Switch
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Chapter 8: Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore
- Introduction
- Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host
- How to do it...
- Viewing datastores available on an ESXi host
- How to do it...
- Creating a VMFS datastore
- Getting ready
- How to do it.
- Managing multipathing configuration of a VMFS datastore
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Expanding or growing a VMFS datastore
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Extending a VMFS datastore
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Unmounting and detaching VMFS volumes
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Re-mounting a VMFS datastore
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Deleting VMFS datastores
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Upgrading from VMFS 5 to VMFS 6
- How to do it...
- There is more...
- Managing VMFS volumes detected as snapshots
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Masking paths to a LUN
- How to do it...
- Unmasking paths to a LUN
- How to do it...
- Chapter 9: Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage
- Introduction
- iSCSI fundamentals
- NFS fundamentals
- Adding the software iSCSI adapter
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Configuring iSCSI multipathing using port binding
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Configuring access to an iSCSI target server
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Creating NFSv3 datastores
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Creating NFSv4.1 datastores with Kerberos authentication
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Chapter 10: Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage
- Introduction
- Settings disk shares on virtual machine disks
- How to do it...
- Enabling Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Integrating a VASA provider with the vCenter Server
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Using vCenter tags to define storage capabilities
- How to do it...
- Creating VM storage policies
- How to do it...
- How it works...
- Assigning VM storage policies
- How to do it...
- How it works.
- Chapter 11: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines.
