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You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook If you prefer practice to theory then this is the ideal book for learning how to install and configure VMware vSphere components. Packed with recipes, it's a hands-on tutorial and reference guide for this unbeatable virtualization product.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849684026

Length 466 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Abhilash G B

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1

3. vSphere Auto Deploy

4. ESXi Image Builder

5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

6. Managing iSCSI and NFS Storage

7. Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control

8. Configuring the vSphere Network

9. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

10. Configuring vSphere HA

11. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

12. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

13. Using vSphere Management Assistant (vMA 5.1)

Index

Introduction

VMware Auto Deploy helps an administrator to fast-provision multiple ESXi servers without having the need to insert the ESXi Image DVD to the server's local DVD ROM drive.

In this chapter, we will learn how to setup an auto deployed virtual infrastructure. The new features in vSphere 5.1, such as the stateless caching and stateful install, will further ease the work of an administrator.

VMware Auto Deploy doesn't work on its own. It needs a PXE environment configured for the server to boot up, talk to the Auto Deploy server, and use an appropriate image.

PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) is an environment to boot computers using the network interface on them, without the need for a local/remote data storage or a preinstalled operating system.

We need the following components configured for an ESXi server to be auto deployed.

An Auto Deploy server
Servers with PXE-enabled BIOS
A DHCP server
A TFTP server
Host Profiles configured at the vCenter Server

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You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook If you prefer practice to theory then this is the ideal book for learning how to install and configure VMware vSphere components. Packed with recipes, it's a hands-on tutorial and reference guide for this unbeatable virtualization product.

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