VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook电子书

VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook

Table of Contents

VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

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. The Virtual Datacenter

Introduction

The hypervisor

Virtual machines

Virtual infrastructure management

Understanding the benefits of virtualization

Identifying when not to virtualize

Becoming a virtual datacenter architect

How to do it…

There's more…

Using a holistic approach to datacenter design

How to do it...

How it works...

Passing the VMware VCAP-DCD exam

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more…

2. The Discovery Process

Introduction

Identifying the design factors

How to do it…

How it works…

Identifying stakeholders

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Conducting stakeholder interviews

How to do it…

How it works…

VMware Capacity Planner

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Using Windows Performance Monitor

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Identifying dependencies

How to do it…

How it works…

3. The Design Factors

Introduction

Identifying design requirements

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Identifying design constraints

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Making design assumptions

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Identifying design risks

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating the conceptual design

How to do it...

How it works...

Design requirements

Design constraints

Assumptions

There's more...

4. The vSphere Management Design

Introduction

Identifying vCenter components and dependencies

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Selecting a vCenter deployment option

How to do it…

How it works…

Determining the vCenter system requirements

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Selecting a database for vCenter deployment

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Determining database interoperability

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more…

Choosing a vCenter Single Sign-On deployment mode

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Designing for management availability

How to do it…

How it works…

Backing up the vCenter Server components

How to do it…

How it works...

There's more…

Using vCenter Server Heartbeat to provide vCenter availability

How to do it…

How it works…

Securing the management components

How to do it…

There's more…

Designing a separate management cluster

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

5. The vSphere Storage Design

Introduction

Identifying RAID levels

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Calculating storage capacity requirements

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Determining storage performance requirements

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Calculating storage throughput

How to do it...

How it works...

Storage connectivity options

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Storage path selection plugins

How to do it...

How it works...

Sizing datastores

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

6. The vSphere Network Design

Introduction

Determining network bandwidth requirements

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Standard or distributed virtual switches

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Providing network availability

How to do it...

How it works…

Virtual switch security

How to do it…

How it works…

Network resource management

How to do it…

How it works…

Using private VLANs

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

IP storage network design considerations

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

vMotion network design considerations

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

7. The vSphere Compute Design

Introduction

Calculating CPU resource requirements

How to do it…

How it works…

Calculating memory resource requirements

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Scaling up or scaling out

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Determining the vCPU-to-core ratio

How to do it…

How it works…

Clustering compute resources

How to do it...

How it works…

Reserving HA resources to support failover

How to do it…

How it works…

Using distributed resource scheduling to balance cluster resources

How to do it…

How it works…

Ensuring cluster vMotion compatibility

How to do it…

How it works…

8. The vSphere Physical Design

Introduction

Using the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Understanding the physical storage design

How to do it…

How it works…

Understanding the physical network design

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating the physical compute design

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a custom ESXi image

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Best practices for ESXi host BIOS settings

How to do it…

How it works…

9. The Virtual Machine Design

Introduction

Right-sizing virtual machines

How to do it…

How it works…

Enabling CPU Hot Add and Memory Hot Plug

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating virtual machine templates

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Using vApps to organize virtualized applications

How to do it…

How it works…

Using VM affinity and anti-affinity rules

How to do it…

How it works…

Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone

How to do it…

How it works…

10. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Introduction

Backing up ESXi host configurations

How to do it...

How it works…

There's more…

Configuring ESXi host logging

How to do it…

How it works…

Backing up virtual distributed switch configurations

How to do it…

How it works…

Deploying VMware Data Protection

How to do it…

How it works…

Using VMware Data Protection to back up virtual machines

How to do it…

How it works…

Replicating virtual machines with vSphere Replication

How to do it…

How it works…

Protecting the virtual datacenter with Site Recovery Manager

How to do it…

How it works…

11. The Design Documentation

Introduction

Creating the architecture design document

How to do it...

How it works...

Writing an implementation plan

How to do it...

How it works...

Developing an installation guide

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating a validation test plan

How to do it...

How it works...

Writing operational procedures

How to do it...

How it works...

Presenting the design

How to do it...

How it works...

Implementing the design

How to do it...

How it works...

Index