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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789801514

Length 392 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Hersey Cartwright

Mike Brown

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Table of Contents (14) 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. vSphere Security Design

11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

12. Design Documentation

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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vMotion network design considerations

vMotion allows for the running state of a virtual machine to be transferred from one ESXi host to another. The network traffic that's required for the migration uses the VMkernel interfaces that have been enabled for vMotion. vMotion connectivity between ESXi hosts is required when using a Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to balance the virtual machine load across hosts in a DRS-enabled cluster.

How to do it...

The following steps to design networking for vMotion:

Identify the vMotion network requirements
Determine the best practices for configuring the network connectivity that's required to support vMotion
Identify the benefits of keeping virtual machines together on the...

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Authors (2)

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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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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