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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

vSphere components and workflow

To provide services to the infrastructure, vSphere relies on two core components—the hypervisor, which is the virtualization layer for the complete environment, and vCenter Server, which centralizes the management of the ESXi hosts and allows administrators to automate and secure the virtual infrastructure. To complete the vSphere deployment, it is essential to know the interaction between ESXi and vCenter. Let's examine these two components to figure out their role:

  • The ESXi hypervisor is the virtual platform on which virtual machines and virtual appliances run. Its main function is to provide the resources to workloads in terms of CPU and RAM. To manage the ESXi resources, ensuring performance and reliability, an additional component is necessary—vCenter Server.
  • vCenter Server is a service that centrally manages ESXi hosts...
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