VMware vSphere Essentials

Efficiently virtualize your IT infrastructure with vSphereAbout This BookPlan, deploy, and manage your vSphere environment for even the most complex IT infrastructuresFamiliarize yourself with vSphere infrastructure to become a skilled vSphere administratorSeamlessly configure and deploy vSphere with simple examples in this fast-paced guideWho This Book Is ForThis book is intended for virtualization administrators who want to learn VMware vSphere quickly. It is assumed that you have some basic knowledge of virtualization and the vSphere environment.What You Will LearnExplore a multiple-host virtualization environment with ESXi and vCenter ServerCreate and manage virtual machinesCreate and configure vNetwork Switches to manage your virtual networksBuild software-defined, performance-oriented shared storage and network topologies with VSAN and NSXDiscover features such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, snapshots, templates, and cloningFamiliarize yourself with vSphere High Availability, Fault Tolerance, DRS, and Update managementDiscover some of the newly added vSphere 6.0 featuresIn DetailThis book will provide you with the skills you'll need to plan, deploy, and manage VMware vSphere infrastructures. Starting with an introduction to vCenter Server and managing single and multiple ESXi servers, you'll learn the basics of vSphere's architecture of virtualization, hypervisors, and virtual infrastructure, and discover how to create and manage virtual machines. You'll learn network management using inbuilt vSphere operations and network virtualization using VMware NSX technology, along with virtual storage in a vSphere environment. You'll go on to implement and configure VSAN with vSphere and discover the advanced operations that can be performed with virtual machines. By the end of this book, you will have explored critical components in vSphere—HA, FT, and DRS security of vSphere architecture, and some vSphere 6.0 new features. Read more