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Implementing VMware vCenter Server
- Table of Contents
- Implementing VMware vCenter Server
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
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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

Title: 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
Author: Konstantin Kuminsky, Kostantin Kuminsky
Original title: 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
Date of issue: 2013-10-26
Format: Ebook
Item ID: e_3cdv
Publisher: Packt Publishing

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