VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook: Practical recipes to deploy, configure, and manage VMware vSphere 6.7 components

Book Description
VMware vSphere is the most comprehensive core suite of SDDC solutions on the market. It helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises private cloud infrastructures. This edition of the book focuses on the latest version, vSphere 6.7.

The books starts with chapters covering the greenfield deployment of vSphere 6.7 components and the upgrade of existing vSphere components to 6.7. You will then learn how to configure storage and network access for a vSphere environment. Get to grips with optimizing your vSphere environment for resource distribution and utilization using features such as DRS and DPM, along with enabling high availability for vSphere components using vSphere HA, VMware FT, and VCHA. Then, you will learn how to facilitate large-scale deployment of stateless/stateful ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy. Finally, you will explore how to upgrade/patch a vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager, secure it using SSL certificates, and then monitor its performance with tools such as vSphere Performance Charts and esxtop.

By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed in the core functionalities of vSphere 6.7 and be able to effectively deploy, manage, secure, and monitor your environment.

What you will learn
Deploy a new vSphere 6.7 environment or upgrade an existing vSphere environment to version 6.7
Learn how to configure and manage storage and network access for a vSphere environment
Enable high availability for Hosts, VMs and vCenter Server
Optimize your vSphere environment for resource distribution/utilization
Patch or upgrade a vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager
Secure vSphere infrastructure components using SSL certificates
Effectively monitor the performance of your vSphere environment
Who this book is for
If you are a systems administrator, support engineer, or anyone who wants to learn how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment in a quick, hands-on manner, then this book is for you. Consultants and infrastructure architects who wish to design and deploy vSphere 6.7 environments will also find this book helpful.

Table of Contents
Deploying a new vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure
Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere
Configuring Network Access using vSphere Standard Switches
Configuring Network Access using vSphere Distributed Switches
Configuring Storage Access for your vSphere Environment
Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage
Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
Achieving HA in Your vSphere Environment
Achieving Configuration Compliance using vSphere Host Profiles
Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder
Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
Using vSphere Update Manager to Upgrade/Patch Your vSphere Infrastructure
Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates
Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure