VMware vSphere Design Essentials电子书

VMware vSphere Design Essentials

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VMware vSphere Design Essentials

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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. Essentials of VMware vSphere

Introducing the VMware vSphere landscape

Designing VMware vSphere

The PPP framework

List of challenges and encounters faced on the virtual infrastructure

Designing accelerates the solution that resolves real-world obstacles

Requirements

Analysis

Planning

Designing

The values and procedures to be followed while designing VMware vSphere

Readiness

Performance

Manageability

Recovery

Security

Assumptions

Constraints

Risk

Procedures to be followed while designing VMware vSphere

Discovery

Requirement gathering

Reviewing the existing document

Technical assessment

Design integration

Summary

2. Designing VMware ESXi Host, Cluster, and vCenter

Design essentials for ESXi

Designing ESXi

Design configurations for ESXi

Key design considerations for ESXi

Designing an ESXi scenario

Design essentials for upgrading ESXi

Design essentials for migrating ESXi

Pre-migration

Migration

Post-migration

Delivery considerations

Provisioning

Operations

Designing essentials for the management layer

OS instances and database requirements

vCenter SSO

Deploying SSO models

Basic vCenter SSO

Multiple SSO instances in the same location

Multiple SSO instances in different locations

VMware vCenter Inventory Service

Design decisions for the management layer

Identifying whether vCenter will be hosted on a physical server or on VM Server

Identifying whether vCenter will be hosted on the Windows platform or vCSA on the Linux platform

Identifying the database server location on primary sites or remote sites

Configuration maximums to be considered

Design considerations for management layers with industry inputs

Summary

3. Designing VMware vSphere Networking

VMware vSphere networking essentials

The design of VMware VSS and VDS

Determining factors that influence virtual networks

Choosing a physical switch

Choosing the right virtual switch

Ethernet capacity sizing

Choosing the right enhancers

Adapting the ESXi server architecture to accommodate the network

Designing a vSphere network

Readiness

Performance

Management

Recoverability

Network configuration limits

Design considerations for networks with industry inputs

Summary

4. Designing VMware vSphere Storage

VMware vSphere storage essentials

Determining factors that influence vSphere storage

Hard disks

Performance

Capacity

IOPS

Spindles

Cost

Designing vSphere storage

Storage considerations

Local storage versus shared storage

Raw device mapping

Virtual SAN

Multipathing

SAN multipathing

Native multipathing plugin

NAS multipathing

Configuration considerations for better vSphere storage design

Design considerations of storage layers with industry inputs

Summary

5. Designing VMware vRealize

Cloud computing essentials

Cloud fit-for-purpose considerations

VMware vRealize Suite essentials

The design of the VMware vRealize Suite

Designing VMware vSphere for your cloud

ESXi host design and configuration considerations for a cloud

vCenter design essentials for the cloud

Cluster design essentials for the cloud

Network design essentials for the cloud

Storage design essentials for the cloud

Security design essentials for the cloud

Summary

A. About VMware vSphere 6.0

New features of VMware vSphere 6.0

Index