VMware vSphere Essentials

This book is intended for virtualization administrators who want to learn VMware vSphere quickly. It is assumed that you have some basic knowledge of virtualization and the vSphere environment.

Efficiently virtualize your IT infrastructure with vSphere

About This Book

Plan, deploy, and manage your vSphere environment for even the most complex IT infrastructures
Familiarize yourself with vSphere infrastructure to become a skilled vSphere administrator
Seamlessly configure and deploy vSphere with simple examples in this fast-paced guide

What You Will Learn

Explore a multiple-host virtualization environment with ESXi and vCenter Server
Create and manage virtual machines
Create and configure vNetwork Switches to manage your virtual networks
Build software-defined, performance-oriented shared storage and network topologies with VSAN and NSX
Discover features such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, snapshots, templates, and cloning
Familiarize yourself with vSphere High Availability, Fault Tolerance, DRS, and Update management
Discover some of the newly added vSphere 6.0 features

In Detail

This book will provide you with the skills you'll need to plan, deploy, and manage VMware vSphere infrastructures. Starting with an introduction to vCenter Server and managing single and multiple ESXi servers, you'll learn the basics of vSphere's architecture of virtualization, hypervisors, and virtual infrastructure, and discover how to create and manage virtual machines. You'll learn network management using inbuilt vSphere operations and network virtualization using VMware NSX technology, along with virtual storage in a vSphere environment. You'll go on to implement and configure VSAN with vSphere and discover the advanced operations that can be performed with virtual machines. By the end of this book, you will have explored critical components in vSphere—HA, FT, and DRS security of vSphere architecture, and some vSphere 6.0 new features.