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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you design a powerful virtual infrastructure based on vSphere 6.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789801514
Length 392 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Hersey Cartwright Hersey Cartwright
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Mike Brown Mike Brown
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Virtual Data Center 2. The Discovery Process FREE CHAPTER 3. The Design Factors 4. vSphere Management Design 5. vSphere Storage Design 6. vSphere Network Design 7. vSphere Compute Design 8. vSphere Physical Design 9. Virtual Machine Design 10. vSphere Security Design 11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity 12. Design Documentation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

IPv6 in a vSphere design

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) was developed to replace IP version 4 (IPv4). IPv6 addresses are 128-bit IP addresses, compared to the 32-bit addresses in IPv4. IPv6 is becoming more common in data center network environments, and vSphere has included support for IPv6 since vSphere 5.x.

How to do it...

Refer the following steps to design and implement IPv6:

  1. Enable IPv6 on the ESXi host
  2. Determine the vSphere features and services with IPv6 support
  3. Configure the VMkernel interfaces to use IPv6

How it works...

By default, IPv6 support is enabled...

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