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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

Installing vCenter 5.1

This recipe will focus on the steps needed to perform a fresh/new installation of vCenter Server 5.1 on a Windows machine.

Getting ready

Let's take a look at the pre-install checks that need to be performed:

Check the vCenter Server software requirements.
Check the ESX server compatibility.
Check the database compatibility.
Back up the SSL certificates.

We won't be discussing these checks here since these were discussed in the Upgrading vCenter Server section in Chapter 1, Upgrading to vSphere 5.1.

You could download the vCenter Server installation bundle from the following download page:

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_1

The download item would be listed as VMware vCenter Server 5.1 and modules. The download is available in both ISO and ZIP archives.

If you start the installation on a Windows machine that already has a previous version of vCenter Server installed, then the installation wizard will not provide you...

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