- Author: Nick Marshall and Scott Lowe
- Language: English
- Published: 2014
- Page: 1174
- Size: 24 MB
- Format: pdf
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introducing VMware vSphere 5.5 We begin with a general overview of all the products that make up the vSphere 5.5 product suite. This chapter also covers vSphere licensing and provides some examples of benefits that an organization might see from adopting vSphere as its virtualization solution.
Chapter 2: Planning and Installing VMware ESXi This chapter looks at selecting the physical hardware, choosing your version of VMware ESXi, planning your installation, and actually installing VMware ESXi, both manually and in an unattended fashion.
Chapter 3: Installing and Configuring vCenter Server In this chapter, we dive deep into planning your vCenter Server environment. vCenter Server is a critical management component of vSphere, and so this chapter discusses the proper design, planning, installation, and configuration for vCenter Server.
Chapter 4: vSphere Update Manager and the vCenter Support Tools This chapter describes what is involved in planning, designing, installing and configuring the vSphere Update Manager. You'll use vCenter Update Manager to keep your vSphere environment patched and up-to-date.
Chapter 5: Creating and Configuring Virtual Networks The virtual networking chapter covers the design, management, and optimization of virtual networks, including new features like the vSphere Distributed Switch and other third-party switches. In this chapter we also initiate discussions and provide solutions on how to integrate the virtual networking architecture with the physical network
architecture while maintaining network security.
Chapter 6: Creating and Configuring Storage Devices This in-depth chapter provides an extensive overview of the various storage architectures available for vSphere. In this chapter we discuss Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage design and optimization techniques as well as storage features like thin provisioning, multipathing, and round-robin load balancing.
Chapter 7: Ensuring High Availability and Business Continuity This exciting chapter covers the hot topics regarding business continuity and disaster recovery. We provide details on building highly available server clusters in virtual machines. In addition, this chapter discusses the use of vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) as ways of providing failover for virtual machines running in a vSphere environment. We also discuss backup options using
vSphere's Storage APIs.
Chapter 8: Securing VMware vSphere Security is an important part of any implementation, and in this chapter we cover different security management aspects, including managing direct ESXi host access and integrating vSphere with Active Directory. This chapter also covers how to manage user access for environments with multiple levels of system administration and how to employ Windows users and groups in conjunction with the vSphere security model to ease the administrative delegation that comes with enterprise-level deployments.
Chapter 9: Creating and Managing Virtual Machines This chapter introduces the practices and procedures involved in provisioning virtual machines through vCenter Server. In addition, you're introduced to timesaving techniques, virtual machine optimization, and best practices that will ensure simplified management as the number of virtual machines grows larger over time.
Chapter 10: Using Templates and vApps Chapter 10 introduces the idea of templates, a mechanism for more rapidly deploying standardized VM images. We also discuss cloning and the concept of a vApp—a specialized container used by vSphere for the distribution of multi-VM environments. In addition, we discuss the OVF standard used by VMware and other vendors for distributing VMs.
Chapter 11: Managing Resource Allocation In this chapter we provide a comprehensive look at managing resource allocation. From individual virtual machines to resource pools and clusters of ESXi hosts, this chapter explores how resources are consumed in vSphere and addresses the mechanisms you can use —reservations, limits, and shares—to manage and modify that resource
allocation.
Chapter 12: Balancing Resource Utilization Resource allocation isn't the same as resource utilization, and this chapter follows up the discussion of resource allocation in Chapter 11 with a look at some of the ways vSphere offers to balance resource utilization. In this chapter, you'll learn about vSphere vMotion, Enhanced vMotion Compatibility, vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS),
Storage vMotion, and Storage DRS.
Chapter 13: Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance In Chapter 13 we look at some of the native tools in vSphere that give virtual infrastructure administrators the ability to track and troubleshoot performance issues. The chapter focuses on monitoring CPU, memory, disk, and network adapter performance across ESXi hosts, resource pools, and clusters in vCenter Server.
In this chapter you'll also learn about vCenter Operations Manager.
Chapter 14: Automating VMware vSphere Many tasks VMware vSphere administrators face are repetitive, and here automation can help. In Chapter 14 we discuss several different ways to bring automation to your vSphere environment, including vCenter Orchestrator and PowerCLI.
Appendix: The Bottom Line This appendix offers solutions to the Master It problems at the end of each chapter.
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