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You're reading from The Complete VMware vSphere Guide Design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6.7

Product type Course

Published in Nov 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838985752

Length 768 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (6):

Paolo Valsecchi

Andrea Mauro

Karel Novak

Hersey Cartwright

Mike Brown

Martin Gavanda

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

11. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7

12. Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

13. VM Deployment and Management

14. VM Resource Management

15. Availability and Disaster Recovery

16. Securing and Protecting Your Environment

17. Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment

18. Troubleshooting Your Environment

19. Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Upgrading and installing VMware Tools

VMware Tools enhances the performance and improves the management of virtual machines. It does this by loading optimized drivers for virtual hardware and installing utilities to access virtual machine configurations and metrics. VMware Tools is not required, but for optimal virtual machine performance, it should be installed on all virtual machines in the environment.

The status of VMware Tools is displayed on the virtual machine's Summary page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Status of VMware Tools on the VM summary tab

The drivers for the optimized paravirtual hardware, such as the VMXNET3 adapter and the PVSCSI adapter, are included in VMware Tools, and VMware Tools must be installed before the hardware is available for use within the guest. VMware Tools should be installed and kept up to date for every guest operating...

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Authors (6)

Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.

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Paolo Valsecchi

Paolo Valsecchi has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years, and he currently works as a system engineer mainly focused on VMware vSphere, Microsoft technologies, and backup/DR solutions. His current role involves covering all tasks related to ensuring IT infrastructure availability and data integrity (including implementation, upgrades, and administration). He holds the VMware VCP65-DCV and Veeam VMCE professional certifications, and he has been awarded the VMware vExpert title (2015-18) and the Veeam Vanguard title (2016-19).

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Karel Novak

Karel Novak has 18 years of experience in the IT world. He currently works as a senior virtual infrastructure engineer at Arrow ECS Czechia, and is responsible for implementation, design, and complete consultation when it comes to VMware and Veeam. As an instructor of advanced VMware and Veeam, he has delivered many courses. He specializes in VMware DCV, NSX, and, of course, Veeam. He has been using VMware for 12 years and Veeam from the first version. He is a VMware vExpert 2012-2018, VMware vExpert NSX 2016-2018, and a Veeam Vanguard 2015-2019. His highest certifications are VCI-Level 2, VCIX6-NV, VCIX6-DCV, VMCT-Mentor, and VMCA. He is also a VMware Certification Subject Matter Expert.

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Andrea Mauro

Andrea Mauro has more than 20 years of experience in IT, both in industry and the academic world. He works as a solutions architect and is responsible for infrastructure implementation, architecture design, upgrades, and migration processes. He is a virtualization and storage architect, specializing in VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Linux solutions. His first virtualized solution in production was built around ESX 2.x, several years ago. His professional certifications include not only several VMware certifications, but also other vendor-related certifications. He is also a VMware vExpert (2010-18), Nutanix NTC (2014-19), and Veeam Vanguard (2016-19), and he was a Microsoft MVP (2014-16).

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Martin Gavanda

Martin Gavanda has more than 10 years of experience, mainly for service providers offering IaaS solutions based on VMware vSphere products, responsible for the design and implementation of the IaaS solution in the CE region. Currently, he is working as an independent cloud architect, focusing on large infrastructure projects and practicing as a VMware instructor. He has created several virtual classes focusing on the VMware vSphere platform, with thousands of students subscribed, and he runs his own blog about virtualization and the cloud.

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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.

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