Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5
Andrea Mauro Paolo Valsecchi Karel Novak更新时间：2021-07-02 21:54:21
最新章节：Summary封面
版权信息
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Why subscribe?
Customer Feedback
Preface
What this book covers
Part 1 – From the Basics to Design
Part 2 – From Deployment to Management
Part 3 – Maintain a Virtual Infrastructure
Part 4 – Match Your Business Continuity and Service Levels
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer Support
Downloading the color images for this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite
VMware and vSphere background
VMware vSphere as a Cloud Foundation
Virtual Machine (VM) versus containers
VMware vSphere as an infrastructure foundation
Storage platform
Network and security platform
Cloud platform
End-user computing platform
Container platform
Other VMware products complementary to vSphere
What's new on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere limits?
What's new in 6.5?
What's new with vSphere 6.5 Update 1?
Configuration maximums
VM
Host ESXi 6.5
vCenter Server 6.5
Why you should upgrade to vSphere 6.5 and why not?
Why upgrade?
Why shouldn't you upgrade?
Features and editions of vSphere 6.5
Summary
Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure
Plan a virtual infrastructure project
Assess
Requirements constraints and assumptions
Design
Conceptual design
Logical design
Service dependencies
Physical design
ESXi host
vCenter Services
Building blocks
How to provide good documentation
Design areas and technologies
Best practices
Reference architecture
VVD
VMware Solution Enablement Toolkits (SETs)
Different scenarios
Enterprise
Business requirements
Possible constraints
Main risks
Some design decisions
Small or Mid-Sized Business (SMB)
Business requirements
Possible constraints
Main risks
Some design decisions
Remote offices and branch offices (ROBO)
Business requirements
Possible constraints
Main risks
Some design decisions
Summary
Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment
Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing
Useful metrics from a physical environment
Processor metrics
Memory metrics
Disk metrics
Network metrics
Are all workloads good candidates to be virtualized?
Existing tools to analyze a physical environment
Capacity Planner
DPACK
Assessment of an existing virtual environment
Discovery and inventory
Health check
Existing tools for analyzing a virtual environment
RVTools
VOA
VMware vSphere Health Check
Summary
Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
vSphere components and workflow
ESXi deployment plan
Choosing the hardware platform
Identification of the storage architecture
Defining the network configuration
ESXi installation
Where to install ESXi?
Preparing for deployment
Interactive installation
Unattended installation
Auto Deploy installation
How Auto Deploy works
Configuring DHCP
Configuring TFTP
Creating an image profile
Creating deployment rules
Auto Deploy modes
Stateless installation
Stateless caching installation
Stateful installation
vCenter Server components
PSC
Where to install – physical or virtual?
vCenter Server deployment
Choosing the database
Configuring a Microsoft SQL Server database
Configuring ODBC DSN
Installing vCenter Server for Windows
vCSA deployment
Why deploy vCSA instead of the Windows version?
Installing the vCSA PSC
Installing the vCSA vCenter
Summary
Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere HTML5 client
ESXi configuration
Management console configuration
Enabling SSH access
Configuring NTP
ESXi 6.5 partition layout
Boot banks
Scratch partition
vCSA configuration
Basic setup using vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI)
Modifying the IP address and DNS
Exporting a support bundle
Configuring time synchronization
Changing the vCSA password
Licensing
Roles and permissions
AD integration
Configuring a host with AD authentication
Installing the VMware Enhanced Authentication plugin
vCSA and PSC
Repointing the vCSA to another external PSC
Pointing the vCSA with an embedded PSC to an external PSC
Resetting the SSO password
Managing data centers clusters and hosts
Creating a data center
Adding a host to vCenter Server
Disconnecting a host from vCenter Server
Removing a host from vCenter Server
Creating a cluster
Removing a host from a cluster
Managing hosts
Using tags
Tasks
Scheduling tasks
Managing host profiles
vCenter Server in Enhanced Linked mode (ELM)
Automating tasks with scripts
Automating with PowerCLI
PowerCLI script examples
Using vCLI
Installing vCLI on Windows
vCenter REST API
Summary
Advanced Network Management
Basic overview
OSI model
Encapsulation and de-encapsulation
Broadcasting unicasting and multicasting
MAC tables and MAC learning process
Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) versus User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
IPv6
Virtual networking
vSS
vDS
Managing vSS
VMkernel adapters
Physical adapters
TCP/IP stacks
Managing vDS
Properties
Topology
Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Private VLAN
NetFlow
Port mirroring
Health check
Network I/O Control (NIOC)
Network protocol profiles
Ports hosts VMs and networks
Introduction to NSX
NSX components
Management plane
Control plane
Data plane
NSX installation
Network Functions Virtualization (NVF)
Summary
Advanced Storage Management
Storage basics
The evolution of the storage world
Spinning disks
Flash devices
Storage array
Converged networks
VMware vSphere storage types
Storage types at the VM logical level
Storage types at the VM physical level
Storage types at the ESXi logical level
Storage types at the ESXi physical level
VMware vSphere storage configuration
Storage FC
FCoE
Storage iSCSI
Storage NFS
Storage features
VM snapshots
Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) 6
Hot-extend for jumbo VMDK
Automatic space reclaim
Instant clones versus linked clones
Storage DRS versus storage tiering
Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
Storage integration
VMware vSphere Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
Multipathing
Storage masking and filtering
VMware VAAI
VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO)
VMware vCenter plugins
VASA
VVols
Storage design
VM storage layout
VM snapshot limits
Datastore layout
Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD)
VVols dependencies
Introduction to HCI and vSAN
VMware vSAN
Caching with vSphere Flash Read Cache
Other solutions
Summary
Advanced VM and Resource Management
VM components
Virtual hardware
vCPUs
Memory
Network adapter
Virtual disks
Storage controller
File structure
Changing the default file position
VMware Tools
Open VM Tools (OVT)
Deploying VMs
Creating a new VM
Hardware version
Setting the default hardware version
Installing the OS
Installing VMware Tools
Deploying a VM from a template
Cloning a VM
Deploying Open Virtual Format (OVF) and Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) templates
Creating a Content Library
Managing VMs
Adding or registering an existing VM
Removing or deleting a VM
Managing the power state of a VM
Managing VM snapshots
Creating a snapshot
Committing changes
Snapshot consolidation
Resource management
Memory resources
CPU resources
Resource pools
Managing resource pools
Creating a DRS cluster
Virtual network-aware DRS
Managing DRS rules
VM-VM affinity rule
VM-Host affinity rule
Managing power resources
Managing storage and network resources
VM migration
vMotion without shared storage
Converting VMs
P2V
V2V
Summary
Monitoring Optimizing and Troubleshooting
What is troubleshooting?
Monitoring a virtual environment
CLI usage
ESXCLI commands
ESXCFG-
vSphere Management Assistant
Ruby vSphere console
VIM-CMD
VCSA – CLI
PowerCLI
Logs
ESXi host logs
GUI Tools
vRealize Operations Manager
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting the vCenter Server
TRBL with ESXi host
Troubleshooting cluster HA or DRS
Troubleshooting virtual network
Troubleshooting storage
Troubleshooting VMs
Summary
Securing and Protecting Your Environment
Regulations and compliance
Security and hardening concepts in vSphere
Hardening vSphere
Host hardening
Lockdown Mode
Networking
Transparent Page Sharing (TPS)
VIB acceptance levels
VM hardening
VMware vCenter hardening
Authentication and identity
Password management
AD authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Smart cards
RSA SecurID
Other security aspects
Log management
Monitoring protocols
Certification management
New security options in vSphere 6.5
VMware vCenter federations
Protecting the data at rest
VM encryption
Protecting data in motion
Encrypted vMotion
Secure boot
ESXi secure boot
VM secure boot
Enhanced logging
Summary
Lifecycle Management Patching and Upgrading
Updating or patching ESXi hosts and vCSAs
Updating or patching ESXi hosts through the command line
Updating hosts using vSphere Client
Updating the vCSA through the command line
Staging and remediating patches
Updating the vCSA with VAMI
VUM
Configuring VUM
Working with baselines
Baseline groups
Attaching or detaching baselines
Scanning VMs and hosts
Staging and remediating patches
Upgrading hosts with VUM
Upgrading VM hardware
Upgrading VMware Tools
Upgrading and migrating to vSphere 6.5
Why migrate to version 6.5?
Upgrading the workflow and procedure
Step 1 – Pre-migration
Step 2 – Migration
Step 3 – Validation
Migrating from previous releases
Troubleshooting
Summary
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
BC concepts
BC metrics
Business impact analysis (BIA)
Business continuity standard
Common mistakes
Disaster recovery (DR)
DR of a virtual data center
DR versus disaster avoidance
DR versus stretched cluster
VMware solutions
VM Replication
Stretched cluster
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Summary
Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5
VMware vSphere HA
Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP)
Proactive HA
Admission control
VM restart and monitoring
VMware vSphere FT
VMware vCenter High Availability (VCHA)
VMware vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Summary
Data and Workloads Protection
Backup technologies
Backup host configuration
Restoring the host configuration
File-based backup of the vCSA
Restoring the vCSA from a file-based backup
Protecting the workloads
Transport modes
VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP)
Backup solutions for VMware vSphere
Veeam Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Altaro VM Backup
Vembu VMBackup
Micro Focus VM Explorer
Deduplication appliances
Hyper-scale solutions
Cohesity
Rubrik
Summary
更新时间：2021-07-02 21:54:21