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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

ESXi installation

Once you have defined the hardware platform and the storage and network setup, you are ready to deploy the ESXi host. The installation is pretty simple and takes only a few minutes. The latest release of vSphere made an important enhancement in terms of security, introducing a new feature for the hypervisor—secure boot. Secure boot is a solution that ensures that only trusted code is loaded by the EFI firmware before the OS boots. The trust is given by the UEFI firmware that validates the digitally signed ESXi kernel against a digital certificate stored in the UEFI firmware.

Once you have defined the design of the virtual infrastructure, you should evaluate which installation option is suitable for your environment. vSphere 6.5 offers three options to deploy ESXi:

  • Interactive: Manually providing answers to installation options
  • Unattended: Using installation...
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