VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook电子书

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

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. Upgrading to vSphere 5.1

Introduction

Upgrading the vCenter Server

Upgrading the ESXi server

vSphere Web Client

Carrying out pre-upgrade checks before performing a vCenter upgrade

How to do it...

Checking the ESX server compatibility

Running VMware vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker

Checking database compatibility

Backing up the SSL certificates

Enabling SSL certificate verification

Uninstalling the non-default software and plugins

Performing an in-place upgrade of vCenter Server

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating a table space for SSO on a SQL instance

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating DB users for the SSO database

How to do it...

How it works...

Upgrading a 32-bit vCenter Server to vCenter 5.1

How to do it...

Backing up the settings from a 32-bit vCenter Server

Restoring the configuration on the new machine

How it works...

Upgrading to ESXi 5.1

How to do it...

How it works...

Installing vSphere Web Client

How to do it...

There's more...

Upgrading VMware Tools

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Upgrading the virtual machine hardware

How to do it...

How it works...

2. Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1

Introduction

VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)

Installing vCenter 5.1

Getting ready

How to do it...

Deploying a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Preparing vCenter Server Appliance for first use

Getting ready

How to do it...

Installing the vCenter Server Appliance update

How to do it...

How it works...

Upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance

How to do it...

How it works...

Installing ESXi 5.1

How to do it...

Performing a scripted install of the ESXi server

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

3. vSphere Auto Deploy

Introduction

Installing the Auto Deploy server

How to do it…

Configuring a TFTP server with Auto Deploy files

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Configuring the DHCP server for PXE boot

How to do it…

How it works…

Testing the PXE boot configuration

How to do it…

How it works…

Preparing VMware PowerCLI for first use

How to do it…

How it works…

Downloading an ESXi Offline Bundle

How to do it…

Adding the Offline Bundle to the Auto Deploy server

How to do it…

How it works…

Choosing an ESXi Image to deploy

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Host Profile

How to do it…

Creating a deploy rule

How to do it…

How it works…

Activating a deploy rule

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Testing Auto Deploy

How to do it…

How it works…

First boot

Subsequent boot

Enabling Stateless Caching

How to do it…

How it works…

Performing an Auto Deploy stateful install

How to do it…

How it works…

4. ESXi Image Builder

Introduction

Offline Bundle

VIB (vSphere Installation Bundle)

Image Profiles

Creating an Image Profile by cloning an existing one

How to do it…

Verifying the existence of a Software Depot in the current session

Adding a Software Depot

Listing available Image Profiles

Cloning an Image Profile to form a new one

How it works…

See also

Removing an Image Profile

How to do it…

Adding a VIB (software package) to an Image Profile

How to do it…

Verifying whether the Image Profile is read-only

Adding the driver's Offline Bundle to the PowerCLI

Checking the availability of the needed software package (VIB)

Adding the VIB to the Image Profile

Verifying whether the VIB has been added to the Image Profile

Exporting an Image Profile as an ISO or Offline Bundle

How to do it…

Creating an Image Profile from scratch

How to do it…

There's more...

See also

Applying an Image Profile to the host

How to do it…

How it works…

5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

Introduction

Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client to view LUNs

Using the ESXi Console to view the LUN information

Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi host

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client to view LUNs

Using the ESXi Console to view the datastores

Viewing the multipathing information of a LUN

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client GUI

Using the esxcfg-mpath

Creating a VMFS datastore

How to do it...

Using the New Datastore wizard

Using vmkfstools

There's more…

Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore

How to do it...

Using the Increase Datastore Capacity wizard

Using vmkfstools

How it works...

Extending a VMFS datastore

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using the Increase Datastore Capacity wizard

Using vmkfstools

How it works...

There's more…

Unmounting a VMFS datastore

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client GUI to unmount

Using esxcli to unmount

Mounting a VMFS datastore

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client UI to mount

Using esxcli to mount an unmounted volume

Deleting a VMFS datastore

How to do it...

Upgrading VMFS-3 to VMFS-5

How to do it...

Upgrading the VMFS using vSphere Web Client GUI

Upgrading using vmkfstools

How it works...

Mounting VMFS on a snapshot LUN

How to do it...

Using the New Datastore wizard

Using ESXi CLI

How it works...

Resignaturing VMFS on a snapshot LUN

How to do it...

Using the New Datastore wizard

Using ESXi CLI

How it works…

Masking paths to a LUN

How to do it…

Unmasking paths to a LUN

How to do it…

Creating a datastore cluster

How to do it

How it works…

Enabling Storage DRS

How to do it…

How it works…

Initial placement

Balancing space utilization

Balancing I/O load

There's more…

6. Managing iSCSI and NFS Storage

Introduction

Adding the software iSCSI adapter

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a new VMkernel interface for iSCSI or NFS

How to do it...

There's more

Preparing the vSphere network for iSCSI multipathing

How to do it...

There's more...

Binding VMkernel interfaces to the software iSCSI adapter

How to do it...

Adding an iSCSI target server to the software iSCSI adapter

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating an NFS datastore

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

7. Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control

Introduction

Profile-driven storage

Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

Adding a storage provider

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating user-defined storage capabilities

How to do it...

Mapping user-defined storage capabilities to datastores

How to do it...

Creating a VM storage profile and enabling it

How to do it...

Assigning storage profiles to virtual machine disks and checking compliance

How to do it...

Enabling Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

How to do it...

How it works...

Modifying disk shares on a VM

How to do it...

How it works...

8. Configuring the vSphere Network

Introduction

Creating a vSphere Standard Switch

How to do it...

Using vSphere Web Client

Using esxcfg-vswitch

Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client

Using esxcfg-vswitch

Creating a VMkernel interface on a vSphere Standard Switch

How to do it...

Using vSphere Web Client

Using esxcfg-vswitch and esxcfg-vmknic

There's more…

See also

Deleting a port group

How to do it...

Using vSphere Web Client

Using esxcfg-vswitch

Adding an uplink to a vSphere Standard Switch

How to do it...

Using vSphere Web Client

Using esxcfg-vswitch

Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a distributed port group

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch

How to do it...

Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client

Using esxcfg-vswitch

How it works...

Migrating virtual machine network from vSphere Standard Switch to vSphere Distributed Switch

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Migrating management and VMkernel interfaces between vSphere Standard and Distributed Switches

How to do it...

See also

Creating a VMkernel interface on a vSphere Distributed Switch

How to do it...

Exporting the vSphere Distributed Switch configuration

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Restoring the vSphere Distributed Switch configuration

How to do it...

How it works...

Importing a vSphere Distributed Switch into the datacenter from a backup

How to do it...

How it works...

Enabling port mirroring on a DSwitch

How to do it...

How it works...

Enabling NetFlow on a DSwitch

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Configuring private VLANs (PVLANs) on a DSwitch

How to do it...

How it works...

9. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

Introduction

The virtual machine components

Files that back a virtual machine

The virtual machine configuration file

The virtual machine BIOS file

Virtual machine enhancements available with vSphere 5.1

Creating a virtual machine

How to do it...

Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine

Virtual machine disk provisioning methods

Virtual machine disk modes

How to do it...

Adding an existing hard disk to a virtual machine

How to do it...

Attaching RDM to a virtual machine

How to do it...

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

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding a new virtual network adapter to a virtual machine

How to do it...

Creating a virtual machine snapshot

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Deleting a virtual machine snapshot

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Reverting to a current virtual machine snapshot

How to do it...

How it works...

Going to a virtual machine snapshot

How to do it...

How it works...

Consolidating snapshots

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Exporting a virtual machine

How to do it...

How it works...

10. Configuring vSphere HA

Introduction

Enabling vSphere HA on a cluster

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Setting host isolation response for an HA cluster

How to do it...

See also

Setting VM restart priority for an HA cluster

How to do it...

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 vSphere HA admission control

How to do it...

How it works...

Failover capacity by static number of hosts

Failover capacity by reserving a percentage of the cluster resources

Dedicated failover hosts

See also

Configuring a VM to override host monitoring and VM monitoring settings

How to do it...

11. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

Introduction

Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster

How to do it…

How it works…

Choosing a DRS automation level

How to do it…

How it works…

Overriding the cluster automation level for a VM

How to do it…

How it works…

Setting a migration threshold

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating host and VM DRS groups

How to do it…

Creating virtual machines to host affinity rules

How to do it…

How it works…

Must rules:

Should rules:

Creating "Inter-VM" affinity/anti-affinity rules

How to do it…

How it works…

Keep virtual machines together:

Separate virtual machines:

Configuring vSphere Distributed Power Management (DPM)

How to do it…

How it works…

Enabling power management on a per-host level

How to do it…

Configuring VMware EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility)

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

12. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

Introduction

Preparing a database for vSphere Update Manager

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Installing vSphere Update Manager

How to do it...

How it works...

Installing the vSphere Update Manager plugin

How to do it...

Adding a download source

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a baseline

How to do it...

How it works...

Importing ESXi Images

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a host baseline group

How to do it...

Creating a VM and VA baseline group

How to do it...

Remediating a host or a cluster

How to do it...

How it works...

Host maintenance mode options for remediation

Cluster maintenance mode options for remediation

Remediating a VM or a VA

How to do it...

How it works...

Staging patches

How to do it...

How it works...

Installing the Update Manager Download Service (UMDS)

How to do it...

Configuring UMDS and downloading data

How to do it...

Creating a shared repository

How to do it...

How it works...

Using a shared repository

How to do it...

13. Using vSphere Management Assistant (vMA 5.1)

Introduction

Deploying the vMA appliance

How to do it…

How it works…

Preparing vMA for first use

How to do it…

How it works…

Configuring 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

How to do it…

How it works…

Adding an ESXi host to vMA

How to do it…

How it works…

Reconfiguring an added target server

How to do it…

Changing the authentication policy

Changing or recovering a user

How it works…

Running CLI command on target servers

How to do it…

Method 1 – Issue commands on the default target

Method 2 – Issue commands by specifying a target server

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

Index