VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook电子书

VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

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VMware vSphere 5.5 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

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.5

Introduction

Downloading vCenter 5.5

How to do it...

Carrying out pre-upgrade checks

How to do it...

Checking ESXi host compatibility with vCenter

Running the VMware vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker

Checking database compatibility

Backing up SSL certificates

Enabling SSL certificate verification

Upgrading the Single Sign-On component

How to do it...

Upgrading the vSphere Web Client

How to do it...

There's more...

Upgrading the vCenter Inventory Service

How to do it...

Performing an upgrade of vCenter Server

How to do it...

Upgrading ESXi to Version 5.5

Getting ready

How to do it...

Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to Version 5.5

How to do it...

How it works...

Upgrading VMware Tools

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Upgrading the virtual machine hardware

Getting ready

How to do it...

Scheduling the virtual machine hardware upgrade

Getting ready

How to do it...

2. Performing a New Installation of vSphere 5.5

Introduction

Installing ESXi 5.5

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more...

See also

Configuring the ESXi Management Network

Getting ready

How to do it…

There's more…

Installing vCenter 5.5

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating a DSN for the SQL database for vCenter Server

Performing a new installation of vCenter Server

How it works…

Adding an additional Identity Source to the SSO server

How to do it…

How it works…

Assigning users/groups to the vCenter Server

Getting ready

How to do it…

Deploying SSO for the vCenter Linked Mode

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a vCenter Linked Mode group

Getting ready

How to do it...

Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 5.5

Getting ready

How to do it...

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

Introduction

Preparing a reference host

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a Host Profile

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Exporting a Host Profile

How to do it…

How it works…

Importing a Host Profile

How to do it…

How it works…

Duplicating a Host Profile

How to do it…

How it works…

Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile

How to do it…

Verifying the profile compliance of an ESXi host

How to do it…

How it works…

Remediating an ESXi host for profile compliance

How to do it…

Using Host Profiles to push a new configuration change

How to do it…

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

Introduction

vSphere Installation Bundle

Image profiles

Offline bundles

Downloading an ESXi offline bundle

How to do it...

Creating an image profile by cloning a predefined profile

How to do it...

Adding an ESXi software depot

Listing available image profiles

Cloning a predefined ESXi image profile to form a new one

How it works...

See also

Removing an ESXi image profile

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding a VIB (software package) to an image profile

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Adding the HA VIB to the image profile

How to do it...

Exporting an image profile as an ISO or offline bundle

How to do it...

How it works...

Creating an image profile from scratch

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Applying an image profile to the host

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

Introduction

vSphere Auto Deploy architecture

Preparing a vSphere environment for vSphere Auto Deploy

Installing an Auto Deploy server

How to do it…

Configuring a TFTP Server with Auto Deploy files

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Configuring the DHCP server for PXE boot

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Testing the PXE boot configuration

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Preparing VMware PowerCLI for first use

How to do it…

How it works…

Preparing vSphere Auto Deploy for provisioning

Adding a Software Depot

How to do it…

How it works…

Choosing an ESXi Image Profile to deploy

How to do it…

Creating a Host Profile

How to do it…

Creating a deploy rule

Getting ready

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

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Performing an Auto Deploy stateful install

How to do it…

How it works…

6. Configuring vSphere Networking

Introduction

Creating a vSphere Standard Switch

How to do it…

Using the vSphere Web Client

Using esxcli

How it works…

Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch

How to do it…

Using the vSphere Web Client

Using esxcli

Creating a VMkernel interface on a standard vSwitch

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client

Using esxcli and esxcfg-vmknic

There's more…

See also

Deleting a port group from a standard vSwitch

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client

Using esxcli

How it works…

Adding an uplink to a standard vSwitch

How to do it...

Using the 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...

Port binding

Port allocation

Network resource pools

Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch

How to do it...

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

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works...

Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client

Using esxcfg-vswitch

How it works...

There's more…

Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming and failover on a vSwitch and a VDS

How to do it…

On a standard vSwitch

On a VDS

How it works…

Security

Traffic shaping

Teaming and failover

Load balancing

Failover Detection and Failover Order

Migrating VMkernel interfaces between a standard vSwitch and VDS

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a VDS

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating a backup of a VDS

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Restoring a VDS configuration

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Importing a VDS into the data center from a backup

How to do it…

How it works...

Creating Network Resource Pools on a VDS

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

System network resource pools

User-defined network resource pools

Enabling port mirroring on a VDS

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Enabling NetFlow on a VDS

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring private VLANs on a VDS

How to do it...

How it works…

7. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

Introduction

Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client to view the LUNs

Using the ESXi CLI to view the LUN information

How it works...

There's more...

Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi hosts

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client to view the datastores

Using the ESXi CLI to view the datastores

Viewing and changing the multipathing of a LUN

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client GUI

Using ESXi CLI

How it works...

There's more…

Creating a VMFS datastore

Getting ready

How to do it...

Using the New Datastore wizard

Using ESXi CLI to create a VMFS volume

There's more…

Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore

How to do it...

Using the Increase Datastore Capacity wizard

Using the ESXi CLI tool 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...

Unmounting a VMFS datastore

How to do it...

Using the vSphere Web Client GUI to unmount a datastore

Using the ESXi CLI tool "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 from VMFS3 to VMFS5

How to do it...

Upgrading the VMFS using the vSphere Web Client GUI

Upgrading using the ESXi CLI tool vmkfstools

How it works...

Mounting VMFS from 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 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...

There's more...

Enabling Storage DRS

How to do it...

How it works...

Initial placement

Balancing space utilization

Balancing I/O load

See also

8. Managing iSCSI and NFS Datastores

Introduction

Adding the software iSCSI adapter

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Preparing the vSphere network for iSCSI multipathing

How to do it…

How it works…

Binding VMkernel interfaces to the software iSCSI adapter

How to do it...

There's more…

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...

9. vSphere Storage Policies and Storage I/O Control

Introduction

Adding a storage provider

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating user-defined capability tags for datastores

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating VM storage policies

Getting ready

How to do it…

Assigning VM storage policies to virtual machine disks

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Enabling Storage I/O Control

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works...

See also

Modifying disk shares on a VM

How to do it...

How it works...

10. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

Introduction

Creating a virtual machine

How to do it...

Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding an existing hard disk to a virtual machine

How to do it...

How it works...

Attaching RDM to a virtual machine

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

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...

Switching to an arbitrary 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...

11. Configuring vSphere HA

Introduction

Enabling vSphere HA on a cluster

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Configuring vSphere HA Admission Control

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Setting the host isolation response for an HA cluster

How to do it...

See also

Setting the VM restart priority for an HA cluster

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring VM monitoring

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring datastore heartbeating

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring a VM to override host monitoring and VM monitoring settings

How to do it...

How it works...

Disabling host monitoring

How to do it...

How it works...

12. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

Introduction

Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Configuring VMware EVC

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Choosing a DRS automation level

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Overriding the cluster automation level for a VM

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Setting a migration threshold

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating DRS host groups

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating DRS VM groups

How to do it…

Creating VMs to the host affinity rules

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating VM affinity/anti-affinity rules

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Configuring vSphere Distributed Power Management

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Enabling power management on a per-host level

Getting ready

How to do it…

13. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager

Introduction

Preparing database connectivity for VUM

How to do it…

How it works...

See also

Installing vSphere Update Manager

Getting ready

How to do it...

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...

There's more…

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

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...

14. Using vSphere Management Assistant

Introduction

Deploying the vMA appliance

Getting ready

How to do it…

Preparing VMware vMA for first use

How to do it…

How it works…

Configuring VMware vMA to join an existing domain

How to do it…

Adding vCenter to vMA with AD authentication

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Adding vCenter to vMA with fastpass (fpauth) authentication

Getting ready

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 commands on target servers

How to do it…

Method 1 – issuing commands on the default target

Method 2 – issuing commands by specifying a target server

Method 3 – issuing commands against a vCenter added as the target

Updating the vMA

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

15. Monitoring the Performance of a vSphere Environment

Introduction

Using esxtop to monitor performance

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Exporting and importing esxtop configurations

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Running esxtop in batch mode

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Gathering VM I/O statistics using vscsiStats

Getting ready

How to do it…

Using vCenter performance graphs

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Index