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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
Languages
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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

ESXi deployment plan

A successful vSphere deployment requires an appropriate plan to avoid problems of incompatibility, performance, and instability with the commitment of remaining within the available budget.

Three main areas should be considered when planning a vSphere deployment:

  • Choosing the hardware platform
  • Identification of the storage architecture and protocols (NFS, iSCSI, FC, or FCoE)
  • Network configuration (number of NICs, FC adapters, 1GBoE, or 10GBoE NICs)

Choosing the hardware platform

An important decision to take when planning an ESXi deployment is the choice of the hardware platform of the server. ESXi doesn't support all the hardware available on the market (storage controllers, NICs, and so on) and...

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