VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition电子书

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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Third Edition

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Upgrading to vSphere 6.5

Introduction

vSphere 6.5 core components

Hypervisor – VMware ESXi 6.5

Core management layer – VMware vCenter 6.5

Authentication and core services layer – vSphere Platform Services Controller

Upgrade and patch management layer – vCenter Update Manager 6.5

Planning vSphere upgrade

How to do it...

How it works...

Upgrading from vSphere 5.5 or 6.0 to vSphere 6.5

How to do it...

How it works...

Upgrading vCenter Server running Microsoft Windows

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the vCenter 6.5 Migration Assistant

How to do it...

Upgrading vCenter Server – Migrating from Microsoft Windows to VCSA

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance

Getting ready

How to do it...

Upgrading ESXi Hypervisor

Getting ready

How to do it...

There is more...

Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

Introduction

Deploying vSphere ESXi 6.5

Getting ready

Downloading ESXi 6.5 and mapping it to the server

How to do it...

Configuring ESXi Management Network

Getting ready

How to do it...

There is more...

Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

How to do it...

Deploying External Platform Services controllers

Getting ready

How to do it...

Part 1 – Deploying a PSC for a new SSO domain

Part 2 – Joining a PSC to an existing SSO domain

How it works...

VMware Certificate Authority

VMware Single Sign-On

VMware licensing service

Deploying vCenter Servers in Enhanced Linked Mode

How to do it...

Configuring SSO identity sources

How to do it...

Assigning users and groups to vCenter Server

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using vSphere Host Profiles

Introduction

Preparing a reference host

How to do it...

Creating Host Profiles

Getting ready

How it works...

How it works...

Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile

How to do it...

Performing host customizations

Getting ready

How to do it...

Checking Host Profile compliance of ESXi host(s)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Scheduling Host Profile compliance checks

Getting ready

How to do it...

Remediating non-compliant ESXi hosts

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using Host Profiles to push a configuration change

How to do it...

Copying settings between Host Profiles

How to do it...

Exporting Host Profiles

How to do it...

Importing Host Profiles

How to do it...

Duplicating Host Profiles

How to do it...

Using ESXi Image Builder

Introduction

vSphere ESXi Image Builder architecture

Enabling ESXi Image Builder service for vSphere Web Client GUI

How to do it...

Preparing an ESXi Image Builder CLI environment

Getting ready

How to do it...

Downloading an ESXi offline bundle

How to do it...

Importing a software depot

How to do it...

There's more...

Creating an online software depot

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Creating a custom depot

How to do it...

Creating image profiles using an existing image profile

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more....

Creating image profiles from scratch

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Comparing image profiles

How to do it...

Moving image profiles between software depots

How to do it...

Exporting image profiles

How to do it...

There's more...

Using vSphere Auto Deploy

Introduction

vSphere auto deploy architecture

Enabling vSphere auto deploy service

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring TFTP server with the files required to PXE boot

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring the DHCP server to work with auto deploy

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Preparing vSphere environment – create host profile, configure the deploy rules and activate them

How to do it...

How it works...

Enabling stateless caching

How to do it...

How it works...

Enabling stateful install

How to do it...

How it works...

Using vSphere Standard Switches

Introduction

Creating a vSphere Standard Switch

Getting ready

How to do it...

There is more...

Creating VMkernel interfaces on a vSphere Standard Switch

Getting ready

How to do it...

There is more...

Creating custom VMkernel TCP/IP stacks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating virtual machine port groups on a vSphere Standard Switch

Getting ready

How to do it...

There is more...

Managing the physical uplinks of a vSwitch

There is more...

Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on a vSphere Standard Switch

How to do it...

Using vSphere Distributed Switches

Introduction

Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Connecting hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch

How to do it...

Creating a vSphere Distributed port group

How to do it...

How it works...

Port binding

Port allocation

Network resource pools

Managing physical adapter (vmnic) to dvUplink mappings

How to do it...

Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch (vSwitch ) to a vSphere Distributed Switch (dvSwitch)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Migrating VMkernel interfaces between vSphere Standard (vSwitch) and vSphere Distributed Switches (dvSwitch)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a vSphere Distributed Switch (dvSwitch)

Getting ready

How to do it...

Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch backup

How to do it...

How it works...

Restoring dvSwitch from a backup

How to do it...

Creating or importing a dvSwitch from a backup

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on a dvSwitch

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Security

Promiscuous mode

MAC address changes and forged transmits

Traffic shaping

Teaming and failover

Network failure detection

Notify switches

Failback

Failover order

Configuring VLANs on a vSphere Standard or Distributed Switch

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

External switch tagging

Virtual Switch Tagging

Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT)

Configuring private VLANs on a dvSwitch

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring LAGs on a vSphere Distributed Switch

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating user-defined network resource pools

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using port mirroring on a vSphere Distributed Switch

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Enabling NetFlow on a vSphere Distributed Switch

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

Introduction

Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host

How to do it...

Viewing datastores available on an ESXi host

How to do it...

Creating a VMFS datastore

Getting ready

How to do it...

Managing multipathing configuration of a VMFS datastore

How to do it...

How it works...

Expanding or growing a VMFS datastore

Getting ready

How to do it...

Extending a VMFS datastore

Getting ready

How to do it...

Unmounting and detaching VMFS volumes

Getting ready

How to do it...

Re-mounting a VMFS datastore

Getting ready

How to do it...

Deleting VMFS datastores

Getting ready

How to do it...

Upgrading from VMFS 5 to VMFS 6

How to do it...

There is more...

Managing VMFS volumes detected as snapshots

Getting ready

How to do it...

Masking paths to a LUN

How to do it...

Unmasking paths to a LUN

How to do it...

Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

Introduction

iSCSI fundamentals

NFS fundamentals

Adding the software iSCSI adapter

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring iSCSI multipathing using port binding

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring access to an iSCSI target server

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating NFSv3 datastores

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating NFSv4.1 datastores with Kerberos authentication

Getting ready

How to do it...

Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

Introduction

Settings disk shares on virtual machine disks

How to do it...

Enabling Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

How to do it...

How it works...

Integrating a VASA provider with the vCenter Server

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using vCenter tags to define storage capabilities

How to do it...

Creating VM storage policies

How to do it...

How it works...

Assigning VM storage policies

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

Introduction

Virtual machine components

Files that make up a virtual machine

Creating a virtual machine

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding an existing disk to a virtual machine

How to do it...

Attaching a Raw Device Mapping to a virtual machine

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Mapping a virtual machine's vNIC to a different port group

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating virtual machine snapshots

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Deleting a virtual machine snapshot

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Restoring a snapshot in linear snapshot tree

How to do it...

How it works...

Switching to an arbitrary virtual machine snapshot

How to do it...

How it works...

Consolidating snapshots

How to do it...

How it works

Converting a virtual machine to a template

How to do it...

How it works...

Cloning a virtual machine to template

How to do it...

Exporting to an OVF template

How to do it...

How it works...

Deploying a virtual machine from an OVF template

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There is more...

Creating a local content library

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a subscribed content library

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

Introduction

Enabling vSphere HA on a cluster

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring vSphere HA Admission Control

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Setting the host isolation response for a HA cluster

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Setting the VM restart priority for a HA cluster

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring VM monitoring

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring datastore heartbeating

How to do it...

How it works...

Disabling host monitoring

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring vCenter Native High Availability

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

Introduction

Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works

Configuring VMware Enhanced vMotion compatibility

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it work...

See also

Choosing a DRS automation level

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Overriding the cluster automation level for a VM

Getting ready

How to do it...

Setting a migration threshold

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating DRS VM or host groups

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating VMs to host affinity rules

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating VM affinity or anti-affinity rules

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring Distributed Power Management

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring Predictive DRS

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

Introduction

Installing vSphere Update Manager on Windows

Getting ready

How to do it...

Activating vSphere Update Manager in vCenter Server Appliance

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Installing the Update Manager download service

Getting ready

How to do it...

Configuring VUM with a download source

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a custom baseline

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a baseline group

How to do it...

How it works...

Importing an ESXi image and updating a host

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Leveraging a VM/VA baseline to remediate a VM/VA

How to do it...

How it works...

Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

Introduction

Regenerating a new VMCA Root Certificate and replacing all certificates

Getting ready

How to do it...

Generating certificate signing requests with the vSphere Certificate Manager

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Replacing all certificates with custom certificate

Getting ready

How to do it...

Reverting the last performed operation by republishing old certificates

How to do it...

How it works...

Resetting all certificates

How to do it...

How it works

Using vSphere Management Assistant

Introduction

Deploying the vMA appliance

Getting ready

How to do it...

Preparing VMware vMA for first use

How it works...

Configuring VMware vMA to join an existing domain

How to do it...

Adding vCenter to vMA with AD authentication

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding vCenter to vMA with fastpass (fpauth) authentication

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding an ESXi host to vMA

How to do it...

How it works...

Changing the authentication policy

How to do it...

Running CLI commands on target servers

How to do it…

Method 1 – Issuing commands on the default target

Method 2 – Issuing commands by specifying a target server

Method 3 – Issuing commands against a vCenter added as the target

Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

Introduction

Using esxtop to monitor performance

Getting ready

How to do it...

Exporting and importing esxtop configurations

How to do it...

How it works...

Running esxtop in the batch mode

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Gathering VM I/O statistics using vscsiStats

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using vCenter performance graphs

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

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