Implementing VMware vCenter Server: 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.

Kostantin Kuminsky

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Paperback Oct 2013 324 pages Edition

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Implementing VMware vCenter Server

Chapter 2. Managing ESXi Hosts

This chapter focuses on different tasks related to host management in vCenter. We will discuss options available for storage, support, and redundancy.

Networking concepts incorporated in vSphere will be a large part of the discussion.

We will also talk about options available for the support of hosts with different processors.

The last part of this chapter is devoted to host profiles; a feature that can greatly simplify host management.

In this chapter, we will cover:

Adding and removing existing hosts
Host storage adapters and storage configuration—Fibre Channel, Internet SCSI, network-attached storage (NAS)
Storage logical unit number (LUNs) and datastores
Storage multipathing and failover
Storage Thin Provisioning
Network adapters and network configuration
Virtual switch concept—vSphere Standard and Distributed Switch
Setting up networking with redundancy
Managing hosts with different CPUs
Host profiles—profile workflow, managing profiles, and checking compliance

Networking

A virtual network provides two types of services to hosts and virtual machines:

Virtual machine communication to a physical network and between each other
VMkernel services, such as NFS, iSCSI, and vMotion, and their connection to a physical network

Network adapters and network configuration

To view or configure networking as well as network adapters, select a host from the inventory, and go to the Configuration tab. Select Networking from the left-hand side of the screen, and choose the type of networking to view: vSphere Standard Switch or vSphere Distributed Switch, as shown in the following screenshot:

Information about physical adapters available on a host can be accessed from the Network Adapters view under the Configuration tab. The following table shows the available adapter parameters:

Option	Description
Device	Name of the network adapter
Speed	Actual speed and duplex of the network adapter
Configured	Configured speed and duplex of the network adapter
Switch	vSphere...

What you will learn

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

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Alister Lewis-Bowen Apr 04, 2014

Pact Publishing very kindly provided me with the opportunity to read and review an electronic copy of Implementing VMware vCenter Server by Konstantin Kuminsky.The first chapter covers some useful primer information about architecture and terminology before taking you through prerequisites and installation. The next two chapters detail Host and VM deployment which forms the foundation for your vCenter implementation.The book then moves to the management of your virtual infrastructure and talks about HA, Fault tolerance, understanding how to share resources between your VMs and the powerful DRS feature. Chapter 7 takes you though how to monitor your system through alerts and performance metrics and ends on how you might use update manager to patch and upgrade your Hosts and VMs. The last two chapters of this book talk about VMware vCenter Operations and VMware vCenter Orchestrator which, when combined with VMware vCenter Server, provide a great virtual infrastructure suite for larger organizations.This book provides good practical information and a useful overview of deploying, managing and monitoring a VMware-based virtual infrastructure.

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W Boudville Jan 27, 2014

The promise of this book is to explain how your job as a vmWare administrator can be eased when using vCenter. The chapters have considerable details about many useful tasks you are likely to encounter. Like extending a logical volume in a linux operating system. The OS choices are Red Hat and CentOS; both very common. Unfortunately, ubuntu is not currently supported. Though who knows? By the time you read this, that may be true.Anyhow, this particular example demonstrates how easy it is to reboot the virtual machine and thence reconfigure to expand the volume. The steps given are quite explicitly detailed.Another tip is to install VMware Tools. Not strictly required, as the text admits. But it explicitly recommends that you can save yourself some time later by doing so. It delineates the main functions of the Tools. Like improving the graphics performance and that too of the mouse. Or for Microsoft Windows VMs, to improve the audio drivers.A later chapter talks about improving the uptime, or High Availability. It gives a quick run through of vCenter's ways to reduce both planned and unplanned downtime. This acknowledges that in reality both types of downtime can occur. So how to minimise each and thus curtail the impact on users [like your boss?] is vital. The basic solution is to make a vSphere HA cluster, to create redundancy. Yes, this looks straightforward. The cost of course is that you need the raw hardware slack to make that cluster.

VirtuallyMikeB Mar 24, 2014

I was recently given the opportunity to review Packt Publishing’s recent release of Implementing VMware vCenter Server: A practical guide for deploying and using VMware vCenter, suitable for IT professionals. At first glance, I wondered how an entire book could be written about vCenter alone. While reading it, though, I was pleasantly surprised time and again when I saw how much good information was shared. This book is an excellent primer for those new to vCenter and really, VMware in general.You can read the rest of my review on my blog: [...]Mike Brown--Mike BrownVMware, Cisco Data Center, and NetApp dudeConsulting [email protected]: @VirtuallyMikeBBlog:[...]LinkedIn: [...]

Implementing VMware vCenter Server: 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.

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Profile workflow

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