vSphere Virtual Machine Management电子书

vSphere Virtual Machine Management

Table of Contents

vSphere Virtual Machine Management

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. Virtual Machine Concepts

vSphere virtual machines

Virtual machine components

Uses of virtual machines

The primary virtual machine resources

CPU

Memory

Network

Disk

Virtual machine files

Configuration files

Swap files

Virtual disks

Snapshot files

Other files

Viewing virtual machine files

Using the vSphere Client

Using the vSphere Web Client

Using command line

VMware Tools

Summary

2. Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard

vSphere Client versus vSphere Web Client

Creating a VM using the typical configuration wizard

Name and Location

Storage

Guest Operating System

Network

Create a Disk

Ready to Complete

Editing the settings

Creating a VM using the custom configuration wizard

Name and Location

Storage

Virtual Machine Version

Guest Operating System

CPUs

Memory

Network

SCSI controller

Creating a new virtual disk

Using an existing virtual disk

Raw Device Mappings

Do not create disk

Ready to Complete

Creating a VM using vSphere Web Client

Select a name and folder

Select a compute resource

Select storage

Select compatibility

Select a guest OS

Customize hardware

Ready to complete

Summary

3. Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine

Configuring virtual machine customizations

Copying Sysprep files to vCenter directory

Creating a customization

New VM Guest Customization Spec

Set Registration Information

Set Computer Name

Enter Windows License

Set Administrator Password

Run Once

Configure Network

Set Workgroup or Domain

Set Operating System Options

Ready to complete

Creating a virtual machine from a template

Creating a template

Deploying VMs from the template

Select a name and folder

Select a compute resource

Select storage

Select clone options

Creating a virtual machine by cloning

Creating a virtual machine from an OVF file

Select source

Review details

Accept EULAs

Select name and location

Select storage

Setup networks

Customize template

Ready to complete

Creating a virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter

Source System

Source Machine

Destination System

Destination Virtual Machine

Destination Location

Options

Summary (pane)

Summary

4. Advanced Virtual Machine Settings

Introducing the virtual machine monitor

Understanding monitor modes

Enabling CPU hot plug / memory hot add

The CPUID mask

The CPU affinity setting

Setting the .vswp location

Viewing other advanced options

The General Options section

The VMware Remote Console Options section

The VMware Tools section

The Boot Options section

Installing VMware Tools

Installing VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine

Installing VMware Tools in a Linux virtual machine

Summary

5. Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps

What is a vApp?

Creating a vApp

vApp options

IP addressing policies

Virtual machine startup/shutdown order

Exporting a vApp

Cloning a vApp

Summary

6. Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation

Resource performance concepts

CPU virtualization

Memory reclamation

Transparent page sharing (TPS)

Ballooning

Compression

Swapping to host cache

Hypervisor swapping

Network constraint

Storage constraint

Understanding resource controls

Shares

Limits

Reservations

Resource pools

Creating a resource pool

Expandable reservations

Network I/O Control

Storage I/O Control

vSphere Storage APIs

Disk alignment

Performance tuning

Traditional performance practices

Performance problems

Troubleshooting performance

Summary

7. Monitoring Virtual Machines

Performance charts

Overview performance charts

Advanced performance charts

Using esxtop

Monitoring CPU

Monitoring memory

Monitoring network

Monitoring storage

The esxtop options

Using alarms

Creating condition-based alarms

Creating event-based alarms

Other places to find information

Summary

8. Migrating Virtual Machines

vMotion

Configuring for vMotion

Migration using vMotion

Migration using Storage vMotion

Cross-host Storage vMotion

Summary

9. Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability

Clusters

Creating a cluster

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Overview of DRS

Enabling and configuring DRS

DRS recommendations and monitoring DRS

Affinity/Anti-affinity rules

High Availability

Overview of HA

Configuring HA

Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS)

Overview of SDRS

Configuring SDRS

Applying SDRS recommendations

Anti-affinity rules

Summary

10. Virtual Machine Design

Comparing provisioning methods

Provisioning using templates

Using clones for provisioning

Using virtual appliances

OVF templates

Virtual hardware and resource configuration

Virtual machine maximums

Memory

CPU

Storage

The Disk Provisioning types

Disk Mode

The SCSI controller

Raw Device Mapping (RDM)

The virtual network adapters

Other considerations

Renaming virtual machines

Upgrading virtual hardware version

Using tags

NTP configuration

Disabling unused virtual hardware

VMware Tools

Summary

Index