Book Description

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads.

This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more.

By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.

Table of Contents

1: The Virtual Data Center
2: The Discovery Process
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

What You Will Learn

Identify key factors related to a vSphere design
Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design
Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
Design for performance, availability, recoverability, manageability, and security
Map the logical resource design into the physical vSphere design
Create professional vSphere design documentation