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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

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Product type Book

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286016

Pages 598 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite

2. Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure

3. Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment

4. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

5. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5

6. Advanced Network Management

7. Advanced Storage Management

8. Advanced VM and Resource Management

9. Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting

10. Securing and Protecting Your Environment

11. Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

13. Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5

14. Data and Workloads Protection

Summary

To keep the infrastructure healthy, ESXi hosts and vCenter Servers must be patched on a regular basis.

ESXi hosts can be patched and updated using the command line if a vCenter Server is not available in the network. The vCSA can be patched and updated using the command line by staging and remediating the mounted ISO image patch file or through the VAMI that provides a graphic UI.

We talked about VMware Update Manager, a tool used to automate the patching and upgrading procedures of the ESXi hosts installed in the network as well as to install VMware Tools and upgrade the hardware version of the VM.

The chapter explained the upgrade and migration procedures to vSphere 6.5. Both processes must be carefully planned to ensure the compatibility of the used programs and the correct upgrade procedure. The upgrade process can be split into three stages—pre-migration, migration...

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