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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

Updating or patching ESXi hosts and vCSAs

Keeping ESXi hosts and vCenter Servers up-to-date is not only an essential best practice, but it's strongly recommended to ensure the correct functionality of the virtual platform and protection from bugs. Several ways are available to patch ESXi hosts using—VUM, (this will be discussed later in the chapter) to update all hosts automatically or, if no vCenter Servers are present in the network, using the command line. Also, the vCSA can be patched in different ways that will be analyzed later on.

Updating or patching ESXi hosts through the command line

Patches and updates for ESXi are combined in a bundle provided by VMware in a .zip format that includes some VIBs (ESXi...

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