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You're reading from Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, Effectively deploy, manage, and monitor your virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.7

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789613377

Length 756 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (4):

Paolo Valsecchi

Martin Gavanda

Karel Novak

Andrea Mauro

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started

2. Evolution to vSphere 6.7 FREE CHAPTER

3. Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure

4. Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments

5. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

6. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7

7. Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

8. Section 2: Managing Resources

9. Managing Networking Resources

10. Managing Storage Resources

11. VM Deployment and Management

12. VM Resource Management

13. Section 3: Advanced Topics

14. Availability and Disaster Recovery

15. Securing and Protecting Your Environment

16. Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment

17. Troubleshooting Your Environment

18. Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

19. Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab

20. Assessment

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Chapter 2: Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure

(a) Plan, (d) Do, (f) Check, (g) Act
(b) Better power utilization compared to standard servers, (c) Higher density, (e) Centralized management through blade chassis
(b) Leaf-spine architecture
(b) Conceptual design, (d) Logical design, (e) Physical design
(d)

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Authors (4)

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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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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