Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5电子书

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Copyright

Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

Part 1 – From the Basics to Design

Part 2 – From Deployment to Management

Part 3 – Maintain a Virtual Infrastructure

Part 4 – Match Your Business Continuity and Service Levels

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer Support

Downloading the color images for this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite

VMware and vSphere background

VMware vSphere as a Cloud Foundation

Virtual Machine (VM) versus containers

VMware vSphere as an infrastructure foundation

Storage platform

Network and security platform

Cloud platform

End-user computing platform

Container platform

Other VMware products complementary to vSphere

What's new on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere limits?

What's new in 6.5?

What's new with vSphere 6.5 Update 1?

Configuration maximums

VM

Host ESXi 6.5

vCenter Server 6.5

Why you should upgrade to vSphere 6.5 and why not?

Why upgrade?

Why shouldn't you upgrade?

Features and editions of vSphere 6.5

Summary

Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure

Plan a virtual infrastructure project

Assess

Requirements, constraints, and assumptions

Design

Conceptual design

Logical design

Service dependencies

Physical design

ESXi host

vCenter Services

Building blocks

How to provide good documentation

Design areas and technologies

Best practices

Reference architecture

VVD

VMware Solution Enablement Toolkits (SETs)

Different scenarios

Enterprise

Business requirements

Possible constraints

Main risks

Some design decisions

Small or Mid-Sized Business (SMB)

Business requirements

Possible constraints

Main risks

Some design decisions

Remote offices and branch offices (ROBO)

Business requirements

Possible constraints

Main risks

Some design decisions

Summary

Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment

Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing

Useful metrics from a physical environment

Processor metrics

Memory metrics

Disk metrics

Network metrics

Are all workloads good candidates to be virtualized?

Existing tools to analyze a physical environment

Capacity Planner

DPACK

Assessment of an existing virtual environment

Discovery and inventory

Health check

Existing tools for analyzing a virtual environment

RVTools

VOA

VMware vSphere Health Check

Summary

Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

vSphere components and workflow

ESXi deployment plan

Choosing the hardware platform

Identification of the storage architecture

Defining the network configuration

ESXi installation

Where to install ESXi?

Preparing for deployment

Interactive installation

Unattended installation

Auto Deploy installation

How Auto Deploy works

Configuring DHCP

Configuring TFTP

Creating an image profile

Creating deployment rules

Auto Deploy modes

Stateless installation

Stateless caching installation

Stateful installation

vCenter Server components

PSC

Where to install – physical or virtual?

vCenter Server deployment

Choosing the database

Configuring a Microsoft SQL Server database

Configuring ODBC DSN

Installing vCenter Server for Windows

vCSA deployment

Why deploy vCSA instead of the Windows version?

Installing the vCSA PSC

Installing the vCSA vCenter

Summary

Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5

VMware vSphere HTML5 client

ESXi configuration

Management console configuration

Enabling SSH access

Configuring NTP

ESXi 6.5 partition layout

Boot banks

Scratch partition

vCSA configuration

Basic setup using vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI)

Modifying the IP address and DNS

Exporting a support bundle

Configuring time synchronization

Changing the vCSA password

Licensing

Roles and permissions

AD integration

Configuring a host with AD authentication

Installing the VMware Enhanced Authentication plugin

vCSA and PSC

Repointing the vCSA to another external PSC

Pointing the vCSA with an embedded PSC to an external PSC

Resetting the SSO password

Managing data centers, clusters, and hosts

Creating a data center

Adding a host to vCenter Server

Disconnecting a host from vCenter Server

Removing a host from vCenter Server

Creating a cluster

Removing a host from a cluster

Managing hosts

Using tags

Tasks

Scheduling tasks

Managing host profiles

vCenter Server in Enhanced Linked mode (ELM)

Automating tasks with scripts

Automating with PowerCLI

PowerCLI script examples

Using vCLI

Installing vCLI on Windows

vCenter REST API

Summary

Advanced Network Management

Basic overview

OSI model

Encapsulation and de-encapsulation

Broadcasting, unicasting, and multicasting

MAC tables and MAC learning process

Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU)

Virtual LAN (VLAN)

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) versus User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

IPv6

Virtual networking

vSS

vDS

Managing vSS

VMkernel adapters

Physical adapters

TCP/IP stacks

Managing vDS

Properties

Topology

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

Private VLAN

NetFlow

Port mirroring

Health check

Network I/O Control (NIOC)

Network protocol profiles

Ports, hosts, VMs, and networks

Introduction to NSX

NSX components

Management plane

Control plane

Data plane

NSX installation

Network Functions Virtualization (NVF)

Summary

Advanced Storage Management

Storage basics

The evolution of the storage world

Spinning disks

Flash devices

Storage array

Converged networks

VMware vSphere storage types

Storage types at the VM logical level

Storage types at the VM physical level

Storage types at the ESXi logical level

Storage types at the ESXi physical level

VMware vSphere storage configuration

Storage FC

FCoE

Storage iSCSI

Storage NFS

Storage features

VM snapshots

Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) 6

Hot-extend for jumbo VMDK

Automatic space reclaim

Instant clones versus linked clones

Storage DRS versus storage tiering

Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

Storage integration

VMware vSphere Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)

Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)

Multipathing

Storage masking and filtering

VMware VAAI

VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO)

VMware vCenter plugins

VASA

VVols

Storage design

VM storage layout

VM snapshot limits

Datastore layout

Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD)

VVols dependencies

Introduction to HCI and vSAN

VMware vSAN

Caching with vSphere Flash Read Cache

Other solutions

Summary

Advanced VM and Resource Management

VM components

Virtual hardware

vCPUs

Memory

Network adapter

Virtual disks

Storage controller

File structure

Changing the default file position

VMware Tools

Open VM Tools (OVT)

Deploying VMs

Creating a new VM

Hardware version

Setting the default hardware version

Installing the OS

Installing VMware Tools

Deploying a VM from a template

Cloning a VM

Deploying Open Virtual Format (OVF) and Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) templates

Creating a Content Library

Managing VMs

Adding or registering an existing VM

Removing or deleting a VM

Managing the power state of a VM

Managing VM snapshots

Creating a snapshot

Committing changes

Snapshot consolidation

Resource management

Memory resources

CPU resources

Resource pools

Managing resource pools

Creating a DRS cluster

Virtual network-aware DRS

Managing DRS rules

VM-VM affinity rule

VM-Host affinity rule

Managing power resources

Managing storage and network resources

VM migration

vMotion without shared storage

Converting VMs

P2V

V2V

Summary

Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting

What is troubleshooting?

Monitoring a virtual environment

CLI usage

ESXCLI commands

ESXCFG-

vSphere Management Assistant

Ruby vSphere console

VIM-CMD

VCSA – CLI

PowerCLI

Logs

ESXi host logs

GUI Tools

vRealize Operations Manager

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting the vCenter Server

TRBL with ESXi host

Troubleshooting cluster HA or DRS

Troubleshooting virtual network

Troubleshooting storage

Troubleshooting VMs

Summary

Securing and Protecting Your Environment

Regulations and compliance

Security and hardening concepts in vSphere

Hardening vSphere

Host hardening

Lockdown Mode

Networking

Transparent Page Sharing (TPS)

VIB acceptance levels

VM hardening

VMware vCenter hardening

Authentication and identity

Password management

AD authentication

Multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Smart cards

RSA SecurID

Other security aspects

Log management

Monitoring protocols

Certification management

New security options in vSphere 6.5

VMware vCenter federations

Protecting the data at rest

VM encryption

Protecting data in motion

Encrypted vMotion

Secure boot

ESXi secure boot

VM secure boot

Enhanced logging

Summary

Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

Updating or patching ESXi hosts and vCSAs

Updating or patching ESXi hosts through the command line

Updating hosts using vSphere Client

Updating the vCSA through the command line

Staging and remediating patches

Updating the vCSA with VAMI

VUM

Configuring VUM

Working with baselines

Baseline groups

Attaching or detaching baselines

Scanning VMs and hosts

Staging and remediating patches

Upgrading hosts with VUM

Upgrading VM hardware

Upgrading VMware Tools

Upgrading and migrating to vSphere 6.5

Why migrate to version 6.5?

Upgrading the workflow and procedure

Step 1 – Pre-migration

Step 2 – Migration

Step 3 – Validation

Migrating from previous releases

Troubleshooting

Summary

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

BC concepts

BC metrics

Business impact analysis (BIA)

Business continuity standard

Common mistakes

Disaster recovery (DR)

DR of a virtual data center

DR versus disaster avoidance

DR versus stretched cluster

VMware solutions

VM Replication

Stretched cluster

Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Summary

Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5

VMware vSphere HA

Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP)

Proactive HA

Admission control

VM restart and monitoring

VMware vSphere FT

VMware vCenter High Availability (VCHA)

VMware vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Summary

Data and Workloads Protection

Backup technologies

Backup host configuration

Restoring the host configuration

File-based backup of the vCSA

Restoring the vCSA from a file-based backup

Protecting the workloads

Transport modes

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP)

Backup solutions for VMware vSphere

Veeam Backup & Replication

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Altaro VM Backup

Vembu VMBackup

Micro Focus VM Explorer

Deduplication appliances

Hyper-scale solutions

Cohesity

Rubrik

Summary