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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook: Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components , Third Edition

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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook

Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Deploying VMware ESXi 6.5
  • Configuring the ESXi Management Network
  • Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 6.5
  • Deploying External Platform Service controllers
  • Deploying vCenter Servers in Enhanced Linked Mode
  • Configuring SSO identity sources
  • Assigning users and groups to vCenter Server

Introduction

vSphere components ESXi and vCenter Server form the foundation of any modern day data center that is virtualized using VMware. Planning the deployment of these components and its execution is important as it forms the base for any other solution. We reviewed how scalable ESXi 6.5 is when compared to ESXi 5.5 or 6.0 in the previous chapter. Also, as mentioned in the previous chapter, there is no practical reason to use a Microsoft Windows Server to host vCenter and its components any longer. The vCenter appliance is the future, and with vSphere 6.5, VCSA is not a fully functional appliance with VUM integrated into it. For the same reason, we will not cover the installation of vCenter on a Windows server in this chapter.

Deploying vSphere ESXi 6.5

The very first component that you will install in a fully virtualized VMware environment is the ESXi hypervisor. Although there are different methods of deploying ESXi 6.5, which include the use of auto deploy or an installation script, we will review how ESXi can be deployed using the interactive installer.

Getting ready

The installation of ESXi 6.5 is pretty straightforward. It is recommended that you refer to the VMware Compatibility Guide web page to verify whether the server hardware is compatible with ESXi 6.5; this is available at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php. Once you have made sure that the server hardware is compatible, the next step is to make sure that the...

Configuring ESXi Management Network

After the ESXi installation is complete, it is essential to configure its management network before it can be accessed. The management network is what makes the ESXi become a part of a network. It is backed by a VMkernel network interface. We will learn more about these in the networking chapter. The ESXi hypervisor runs a DHCP client, so it does procure a DHCP address if there is a DHCP server on its network; but, in most cases, that is not enough. For instance, if your management network is on a VLAN, then you will need to configure the VLAN ID. Also, it is recommended that the ESXi hosts be assigned with a static IP address. Hence, it becomes important to configure the management network of an ESXi host after it is installed. In this recipe, we will use the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) to achieve this.

...

Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 comes with a GUI installer that can run from different platforms (Windows, Linux, or macOS). The installer by itself has software and hardware requirements that need to be met for optimal performance during installation:

Operating system CPU Memory Storage
macOS Mavericks/Yosemite/El Capitan 4 cores or vCPUs at 2.4 GHz 8 GB 150 GB
Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 4 cores or vCPUs at 2.3 GHz 4 GB 32 GB
SUSE 12 (64-bit) or Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit) 2 cores or vCPUs at 2.3 GHz 4 GB 16 GB

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the steps involved in deploying VCSA 6.5 with an embedded PSC:

  1. Map and browse the contents of the VCSA ISO ROM...

Deploying External Platform Services controllers

Starting with vSphere 6.0, VMware have bundled essential services such as the SSO, inventory service, and certificate management into a single manageable solution called the Platform Services Controller (PSC). The PSC can be installed on the same machine as the vCenter, installed on a separate supported Windows machine, or a PSC running on the virtual appliance.

Getting ready

Before we learn to deploy PSC, it is important to understand that there is more than one deployment model supported by VMware. Although PSC can be deployed as an embedded service along with VCSA, VMware does not support the pairing of an embedded PSC instance with an external PSC. Therefore, it is important...

Deploying vCenter Servers in Enhanced Linked Mode

In large environments, there can be more than one vCenter Server deployed to manage resources; it is beneficial to view all the vCenter inventories from a single management plane. This can be achieved using Enhanced Linked Mode.

Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM) enables the linking of more than one vCenter Server, be it vCenter installed on a Windows machine or the VCSA. Although it is referred to as a method to link vCenter Servers together, the actual linking happens between the PSCs the vCenters are connected to. It is done by making the PSCs join a single SSO domain. This is a requirement. The PSCs in the same SSO domain will replicate roles and permissions, licenses, and other details, letting the administrator perform a single login into the vSphere Web Client to view and manage inventory objects of all the linked vCenter Servers...

Configuring SSO identity sources

An identity source is nothing but a repository of users and groups. These can be the local operating system users, Active Directory, or OpenLDAP and VMDIR sources.

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to add identity sources to the SSO server:

  1. Use vSphere Web Client to connect to vCenter Server. The URL will use the following syntax:
https://<IP Address or FQDN>:9443/vsphere-client
#Examples:
https://localhost:9443/vsphere-client
https://vcsa6501.vdescribed.lab:9443/vsphere-client
  1. Log in using the default SSO administrator and its domain (the default is vsphere.local).

  1. Use the vCenter inventory list to go to Administration:
  1. Click on...

Assigning users and groups to vCenter Server

Be it a simple installation or component installation, you will only be able to connect to vCenter Server using the SSO administrator ([email protected]) after the installation. This is because, by default, the SSO administrator is assigned the vCenter administrator role. Most environments require other users to be able to connect to the vCenter Server. To make this possible, you will need to manually assign an access role to the user/group you would like to provide access to.

Getting ready

Make sure that the domain from which you will be selecting a group/user is added as an identity source. For instructions, read the Configuring SSO identity sources section of this chapter...

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Key benefits

  • •Simplified and to-the-point theory and practical recipes to deploy and manage vSphere 6.5
  • •Discover the best ways to deploy stateless and stateful ESXi hosts and upgrade them
  • • Storage and network resource management
  • •Certificate management using VMCA
  • •Monitor the performance of a vSphere environment.

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VMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization product suite that helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises cloud infrastructures, providing for the automation and orchestration of workload deployment and life cycle management of the infrastructure. This book focuses on the latest release of VMware vSphere and follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on instructions required to deploy and manage a vSphere environment. The book starts with the procedures involved in upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to vSphere 6.5, followed by deploying a new vSphere 6.5 environment. Then the book delves further into the procedures involved in managing storage and network access to the ESXi hosts and the virtual machines running on them. Moving on, the book covers high availability and fair distribution/utilization of clustered compute and storage resources. Finally, the book covers patching and upgrading the vSphere infrastructure using VUM, certificate management using VMCA, and finishes with a chapter covering the tools that can be used to monitor the performance of a vSphere infrastructure.

Who is this book for?

If you are a system administrator, support professional, or anyone interested in learning how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment, then this book is for you. This task-oriented reference guide will also benefit consultants or infrastructure architects who design and deploy vSphere 6.5 environments.

What you will learn

  • • Upgrade your existing vSphere environment or perform a fresh deployment
  • • Automate the deployment and management of large sets of ESXi hosts in your vSphere Environment
  • • Configure and manage FC, iSCSI, and NAS storage, and get more control over how storage resources are allocated and managed
  • • Configure vSphere networking by deploying host-wide and data center-wide switches in your vSphere environment
  • • Configure high availability on a host cluster and learn how to enable the fair distribution and utilization of compute resources
  • • Patch and upgrade the vSphere environment
  • • Handle certificate request generation and renew component certificates
  • • Monitor performance of a vSphere environment
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Table of Contents

18 Chapters
Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using vSphere Host Profiles Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using ESXi Image Builder Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using vSphere Auto Deploy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using vSphere Standard Switches Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using vSphere Distributed Switches Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using vSphere Management Assistant Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This book is named "COOKBOOK" which implies, in my experience, that a number of lines of CODED procedures would be displayed and discussed in detail. NO - All I found were GUI walk thru's which simply was NOT what I was looking for. I was seeking Powercli/PowerShell coding.
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This book was disappointing. There really much value add in this book over what's is published in VMware's own installation guides or various blog tutorials freely available on the web. But what really makes this book flop is the poor grammar and sentence structure throughout. Many of the sentences are poorly put together and difficult to read as if this were a 1st draft of a kids school project. It hurts the credibility of the entire book. There are multiple nice screenshots throughout, but this doesn't justify the $40 price. I'd give it 3 stars if it were under $25.
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