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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook Practical recipes to deploy, configure, and manage VMware vSphere 6.7 components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789953008
Length 570 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Abhilash G B Abhilash G B
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Preface 1. Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 2. Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere 3. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches 4. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches 5. Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment 6. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores 7. SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage 8. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC 9. Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment 10. Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles 11. Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder 12. Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts 13. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 14. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager 15. Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates 16. Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Upgrading VMFS datastores

If there are existing VMFS5 datastores in your environment, then it is important to note that there is no method to perform an in-place upgrade of VMFS5 to VMFS6. This is due to the changes made to the structure of VMFS6 metadata to make it compatible with 4K alignment.

This recipe will provide you with a very high-level overview of how to plan the migration of your workloads to VMFS 6.

How to do it...

The following procedure provides general guidance on how VM workloads on VMFS5 can be migrated to VMFS6:

  1. Make a list of all VMFS5 datastores and their current storage utilization.
  2. Depending on the amount of free capacity available in the storage system, you can choose to either create VMFS6 datastores...
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