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封面
版权信息
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Why subscribe?
Customer Feedback
Preface
What this book covers
Part 1 – From the Basics to Design
Part 2 – From Deployment to Management
Part 3 – Maintain a Virtual Infrastructure
Part 4 – Match Your Business Continuity and Service Levels
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer Support
Downloading the color images for this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite
VMware and vSphere background
VMware vSphere as a Cloud Foundation
Virtual Machine (VM) versus containers
VMware vSphere as an infrastructure foundation
Storage platform
Network and security platform
Cloud platform
End-user computing platform
Container platform
Other VMware products complementary to vSphere
What's new on vSphere 6.5 and vSphere limits?
What's new in 6.5?
What's new with vSphere 6.5 Update 1?
Configuration maximums
VM
Host ESXi 6.5
vCenter Server 6.5
Why you should upgrade to vSphere 6.5 and why not?
Why upgrade?
Why shouldn't you upgrade?
Features and editions of vSphere 6.5
Summary
Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure
Plan a virtual infrastructure project
Assess
Requirements constraints and assumptions
Design
Conceptual design
Logical design
Service dependencies
Physical design
ESXi host
vCenter Services
Building blocks
How to provide good documentation
Design areas and technologies
Best practices
Reference architecture
VVD
VMware Solution Enablement Toolkits (SETs)
Different scenarios
Enterprise
Business requirements
Possible constraints
Main risks
Some design decisions
Small or Mid-Sized Business (SMB)
Remote offices and branch offices (ROBO)
Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment
Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing
Useful metrics from a physical environment
Processor metrics
Memory metrics
Disk metrics
Network metrics
Are all workloads good candidates to be virtualized?
Existing tools to analyze a physical environment
Capacity Planner
DPACK
Assessment of an existing virtual environment
Discovery and inventory
Health check
Existing tools for analyzing a virtual environment
RVTools
VOA
VMware vSphere Health Check
