Implementing VMware vCenter Server
Konstantin Kuminsky
Language: English
Pages: 324
ISBN: 1849689989
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This book starts with the basics then leads you by the hand through a complete Vmware vCenter Server implementation course. Designed to help you administer and manage your environment on a day to day basis.
Overview
- Gain in-depth knowledge of the VMware vCenter features, requirements, and deployment process
- Manage hosts, virtual machines, and learn storage management in VMware vCenter server
- Overview of VMware vCenter Operations Manager and VMware vCenter Orchestrator
In Detail
Virtualization is a hot topic today. It saves time and effort for IT professionals as well as helping to keep infrastructure costs down and makes the IT industry greener. VMware, one of the major players on the virtualization market, offers great scalability and reliability features, professional support, and constantly works on improvements for their products. VMware vCenter Server is a necessary component of any professional vSphere implementation. It offers a great variety of features and capabilities that simplify an administrator’s day-to-day work.
This book is a practical and hands-on guide to VMware vCenter Server, providing a description of its features and capabilities as well as useful tips on doing day-to-day administrative tasks.
This book starts with an introduction to VMware vCenter Server, describing requirements and deployment steps along the way. It takes you through a description of product features and different aspects of administration giving useful tips for day-to-day tasks. You will learn how to deploy VMware vCenter Server, and how to manage hosts and virtual machines. You will also take a look at security features, availability, resource management, and discuss monitoring and automation topics.
The last two chapters will describe additional products that can be used together with VMware vCenter Server: VMware vCenter Operations Manager and VMware vCenter Orchestrator. If you want to learn how VMware vCenter Server can help with managing your environment, then this is the book for you.
What you will learn from this book
- Deploy VMware vCenter Server and ESXi hosts
- Create and clone virtual machines and work with templates
- Reduce downtime, and configure and manage availability features
- Allocate resources, and configure resource pools and DRS
- Manage users
- Secure ESXi hosts
- Learn to use alerts
- Work with VMware vCenter Operations Manager
- Get to grips with VMware vCenter Orchestrator
Approach
This book is a practical, hands-on guide that will help you learn everything you need to know to administer your environment with VMware vCenter Server. Throughout the book, there are best practices and useful tips and tricks which can be used for day-to-day tasks.
Who this book is written for
If you are an administrator or a technician starting with VMware, with little or no knowledge of virtualization products, this book is ideal for you. Even if you are an IT professional looking to expand your existing environment, you will be able to use this book to help you improve the management of these environments. IT managers will find it helpful in terms of improving cost efficiency, ensuring required levels of service and utilising its excellent reporting abilities.
managed and monitored by vCenter either. Historical data related to this host, however, remains in the vCenter Server database. Removing a host from vCenter doesn't delete virtual machines that are running on this host. If this host is using a shared datastore to keep virtual disks and other data, it will still be able to use the datastore. [ 41 ] Managing ESXi Hosts The following screenshot shows the process of removing a host: In other words, removing a host from vCenter removes vCenter's
click on Create Profile and select an option to import a profile in Create Profile wizard. You will be prompted for the .vpf file, name, and description, as well as the reference host. You can click on Edit Host profile to change the profile's name and description, edit policy, or enable/disable policy compliance check. A policy describes the way in which configuration settings should be applied. Host profiles consist of several subprofiles grouped to represent different configuration instances.
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resources without any service interruption. The main availability capabilities that are built into vSphere allow the use of HA and redundancy features, and are as follows: • Shared storage: Storage resources such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Storage Area Network (SAN), or Network Access Storage (NAS) help eliminate the single points of failure. SAN mirroring and replication features can be used to have fresh copies of the virtual disk at disaster recovery sites. • Network interface teaming: This
third one, it will be denied as the cluster capacity is two and it may not be able to accommodate three VMs. This option is probably not the best one for an environment that has VMs with significantly more of resources assigned than the rest of the VMs. The Host failure cluster tolerates option can be used when all cluster hosts are sized pretty much equally. Otherwise, if you use this option, then excessive capacity is reserved such that the cluster tolerates the largest host failure. When this