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Hersey Cartwright
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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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Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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IPv6 in a vSphere Design


Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) was developed to replace IP version 4 (IPv4). IPv6 addresses are 128-bit IP addresses compared to the 32-bit addresses in IPv4. IPv6 is becoming more common in datacenter network environments, and vSphere has included support for IPv6 since vSphere 5.x.

How to do it…

  1. Enable IPv6 on the ESXi host.

  2. Determine the vSphere features and services with IPv6 support.

  3. Configure VMkernel interfaces to use IPv6.

How it works…

By default, IPv6 support is enabled on ESXi hosts. If the IPv6 support is changed, disabled, or enabled, a host reboot is required. Enabling or disabling IPv6 is done on each ESXi host by editing Advanced Network Settings from the Networking management tab for the host, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once enabled, IPv6 can be configured for supported vSphere features and services. The following vSphere features and services support IPv6:

  • ESXi and vCenter Management

  • vMotion and vSphere DRS

  • Fault tolerance

  • vSphere HA

  • NFS v3 storage...

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Published in: Jun 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785283468

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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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kim bottu

Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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