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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

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|Dec 2017
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Deliver great business value by adopting the virtualization platform VMware vSphere 6.5, from the design to the deployment

Key Features

  • This new edition is based on vSphere 6.5 and has described new features in different areas, including management, security, scalability, availability and so on.
  • Design, deploy and manage VMware datacenters
  • Implement monitoring and security of VMware workloads with ease.

Book Description

VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease.

You’ll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you’ll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you’ll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we’ll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere.

Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you’ll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management.

What you will learn

  • Get a deep understanding of vSphere 6.5 functionalities
  • Design and plan a virtualization environment based on vSphere 6.5
  • Manage and administer a vSphere 6.5 environment and resources
  • Get tips for the VCP6-DCV and VCIX6-DCV exams (along with use of the vSphere 6 documentation)
  • Implement different migration techniques to move your workload across different environments.
  • Save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure.

Who this book is for

If you are an administrator, infrastructure engineer, IT architect, or an IT consultant and analyst who has basic knowledge of VMware vSphere and now wants to master it, then this book is for you.

Table of Contents

  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
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PDF ISBN: 978-1-78728-390-9
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 598