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Implementing VMware vCenter Server. This book starts with the basics then leads you by the hand through a complete Vmware vCenter Server implementation course. Designed to help you administer and manage your environment on a day to day basis

Implementing VMware vCenter Server. This book starts with the basics then leads you by the hand through a complete Vmware vCenter Server implementation course. Designed to help you administer and manage your environment on a day to day basis

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  • Implementing VMware vCenter Server
    • Table of Contents
    • Implementing VMware vCenter Server
    • Credits
    • About the Author
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    • Preface
      • What this book covers
      • What you need for this book
      • Who this book is for
      • Conventions
      • Reader feedback
      • Customer support
        • Errata
        • Piracy
        • Questions
    • 1. vCenter Deployment
      • Key vCenter functions and capabilities
      • VMware terminologies vSphere, ESX, ESXi, hypervisor, and VMFS
      • vSphere component layers
      • The VMware licensing model
      • Planning the vSphere environment
        • vCenter system requirements
        • vSphere physical topology
        • Virtual versus physical vCenter Server
      • Installing the Management Suite
        • Linked Mode groups
      • Configuring a database for vCenter Server
      • Accessing vCenter with vSphere Client
      • Accessing vCenter with web client
      • Summary
    • 2. Managing ESXi Hosts
      • Adding and removing existing hosts
      • Storage
        • Host storage adapters and storage configuration
          • Fibre Channel (FC)
          • Internet SCSI (iSCSI)
          • Network-attached storage (NAS)
        • Storage LUNs and datastores
        • Storage multipathing and failover
        • Storage Thin Provisioning
      • Networking
        • Network adapters and network configuration
        • Virtual switch concept
          • vSphere Standard Switch
          • vSphere Distributed Switch
        • Setting up networking with redundancy
      • EVC mode
        • Managing hosts with different CPUs
      • Host Profiles
        • Profile workflow
        • Managing profiles
        • Checking compliance
      • Summary
    • 3. Virtual Machine Management
      • Creating a new VM
        • New VM wizard
          • Virtual hardware
          • Virtual CPUs (vCPUs)
        • The SCSI controller
        • Virtual disks
        • Expanding a drive
        • Booting a VM from CD-ROM
        • Extending a drive in a Linux guest operating system
      • VMware Tools
        • Installing VMware Tools on a Windows guest
        • Installing VMware Tools on a Linux guest
        • Time synchronization
          • Tick counting
          • Tickless timekeeping
          • VM time synchronization
      • Cloning the existing VM
        • Hot and cold cloning
        • Postcloning tasks for Windows guests
      • Deploying a VM from a template
        • Creating a template
        • Postdeployment tasks
        • Keeping templates up-to-date
        • Template best practices
      • Importing/exporting an OVF template
        • Importing the OVF template using the command line and GUI
        • Importing OVF templates into previous versions of vSphere
        • USB support
      • Snapshots
        • Free space
        • Seeking additional free space
        • Another task is in progress
      • Summary
    • 4. Availability Management
      • Reducing planned and unplanned downtime
        • Planned downtime
          • vSphere requirements for vMotion
          • Migration with vMotion
        • Unplanned downtime
          • High availability (HA)
      • Creating a vSphere HA cluster
        • HA settings
          • Host monitoring status
          • Datastore heartbeating
          • Virtual machine options
            • Restart priority
            • Isolation response
          • VM monitoring
          • Admission control
            • Admission control policies
        • HA security and logging
        • Using HA with DRS
        • What to expect when HA is enabled
      • Fault Tolerance
        • Preparing hosts and VMs
        • Configuring FT
        • Using FT with DRS
      • Summary
    • 5. Security Management
      • User management
        • Authentication
        • Users and groups
        • Roles and permissions
      • Securing ESXi
        • Using a firewall
        • Using security certificates and encryption
        • Enabling lockdown mode
      • Summary
    • 6. Resource Management
      • Resource allocation
        • Understanding shares
        • Understanding reservations
        • Understanding limits
      • Resource pools
        • Advantages
        • Creating and editing pools
      • DRS
        • Understanding the DRS cluster requirements
        • Creating a DRS cluster
        • Disabling DRS
        • Using power management
          • Cluster validity
          • Affinity rules
          • CPU affinity rules
          • CPU power management
      • Summary
    • 7. Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions
      • Events, alarms, and system monitoring
        • Alarms and events
        • Acknowledging and resetting triggered alarms
        • Monitoring host health
        • Guest performance and storage usage
        • Snapshot size monitoring
        • Setting up e-mail alerts and SNMP traps
      • Viewing and scheduling tasks
      • The Update Manager plugin
        • Installation
        • Working with baselines
        • Scanning and remediating objects
        • Deploying Windows updates
      • Summary
    • 8. VMware vCenter Operations
      • Installing and configuring vCenter Operations
        • What is vCenter Operations?
        • vCenter Operations Manager Standard deployment
        • Basic configuration
        • Additional configuration and usage
      • Evaluation tasks
        • Badges and scores
          • Hierarchy views
          • Health details
          • Scorecards
          • Analyse using heat maps
          • Memory pressure and ballooning
      • Summary
    • 9. VMware vCenter Orchestrator
      • Installing and configuring vCenter Orchestrator
        • System requirements and components setup
        • Installing and upgrading Orchestrator
        • Initial configuration
          • Network access
          • SSL certificate
          • LDAP configuration
          • Database connection
          • Server certificate
          • Plugin configuration
          • Installing Orchestrator as a system service
      • Administering vCenter Orchestrator
        • Overview of workflows
        • Resource elements and actions
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Titel: Implementing VMware vCenter Server. This book starts with the basics then leads you by the hand through a complete Vmware vCenter Server implementation course. Designed to help you administer and manage your environment on a day to day basis
  • Autor: Konstantin Kuminsky, Kostantin Kuminsky
  • Originaler Titel: Implementing VMware vCenter Server. This book starts with the basics then leads you by the hand through a complete Vmware vCenter Server implementation course. Designed to help you administer and manage your environment on a day to day basis.
  • ISBN: 9781849689991, 9781849689991
  • Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2013-10-26
  • Format: E-book
  • Artikelkennung: e_3cdv
  • Verleger: Packt Publishing