Book Description

VMware vSphere provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications and datacenters that help you with your digital transformation efficiently.

Mastering VMware vSphere, 6.7, Second Edition begins by covering an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. You’ll learn to design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive performance analysis and then proceed with the workflow and installation of components. Along with new network trends that will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment, you will also learn the best practices involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.7, you’ll make use of more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. The concluding chapters focus on core vSphere components as storage and network and you will learn all you need about resource management followed by topics as high availability and disaster recovery, troubleshooting, monitoring and security.

By the end the book you will discover different approaches on how to build your own VMware vSphere lab to help you run even the most demanding workloads

Table of Contents

1: Evolution to vSphere 6.7
2: Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure
3: Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments
4: Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
5: Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7
6: Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading
7: Managing Networking Resources
8: Managing Storage Resources
9: VM Deployment and Management
10: VM Resource Management
11: Availability and Disaster Recovery
12: Securing and Protecting Your Environment
13: Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment
14: Troubleshooting Your Environment
15: Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab

What You Will Learn

Get a deep understanding of vSphere 6.7 functionalities
Design a virtualization environment based on VMware vSphere 6.7
Manage and administer a vSphere 6.7 environment and resources
Get tips for the VCP6-DCV and VCIX6-DCV exams
Implement different migration techniques across different environments
Deploy and understand different concepts of VMware vSphere 6.7 lab