vSphere components ESXi and vCenter Server form the foundation of any modern day data center that is virtualized using VMware. Planning the deployment of these components and its execution is important as it forms the base for any other solution. We reviewed how scalable ESXi 6.5 is when compared to ESXi 5.5 or 6.0 in the previous chapter. Also, as mentioned in the previous chapter, there is no practical reason to use a Microsoft Windows Server to host vCenter and its components any longer. The vCenter appliance is the future, and with vSphere 6.5, VCSA is not a fully functional appliance with VUM integrated into it. For the same reason, we will not cover the installation of vCenter on a Windows server in this chapter.
- Upgrading to vSphere 6.5
- Introduction
- vSphere 6.5 core components
- Planning vSphere upgrade
- Upgrading from vSphere 5.5 or 6.0 to vSphere 6.5
- Upgrading vCenter Server running Microsoft Windows
- Using the vCenter 6.5 Migration Assistant
- Upgrading vCenter Server – Migrating from Microsoft Windows to VCSA
- Upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance
- Upgrading ESXi Hypervisor
- Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5
- Using vSphere Host Profiles
- Introduction
- Preparing a reference host
- Creating Host Profiles
- Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile
- Performing host customizations
- Checking Host Profile compliance of ESXi host(s)
- Scheduling Host Profile compliance checks
- Remediating non-compliant ESXi hosts
- Using Host Profiles to push a configuration change
- Copying settings between Host Profiles
- Exporting Host Profiles
- Duplicating Host Profiles
- Using ESXi Image Builder
- Introduction
- Enabling ESXi Image Builder service for vSphere Web Client GUI
- Preparing an ESXi Image Builder CLI environment
- Downloading an ESXi offline bundle
- Importing a software depot
- Creating an online software depot
- Creating a custom depot
- Creating image profiles using an existing image profile
- Creating image profiles from scratch
- Comparing image profiles
- Moving image profiles between software depots
- Exporting image profiles
- Using vSphere Auto Deploy
- Introduction
- Enabling vSphere auto deploy service
- Configuring TFTP server with the files required to PXE boot
- Configuring the DHCP server to work with auto deploy
- Preparing vSphere environment – create host profile, configure the deploy rules and activate them
- Enabling stateless caching
- Enabling stateful install
- Using vSphere Standard Switches
- Introduction
- Creating a vSphere Standard Switch
- Creating VMkernel interfaces on a vSphere Standard Switch
- Creating custom VMkernel TCP/IP stacks
- Creating virtual machine port groups on a vSphere Standard Switch
- Managing the physical uplinks of a vSwitch
- Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on a vSphere Standard Switch
- Using vSphere Distributed Switches
- Introduction
- Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Connecting hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Creating a vSphere Distributed port group
- Managing physical adapter (vmnic) to dvUplink mappings
- Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch (vSwitch ) to a vSphere Distributed Switch (dvSwitch)
- Migrating VMkernel interfaces between vSphere Standard (vSwitch) and vSphere Distributed Switches (dvSwitch)
- Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a vSphere Distributed Switch (dvSwitch)
- Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch backup
- Restoring dvSwitch from a backup
- Creating or importing a dvSwitch from a backup
- Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming, and failover on a dvSwitch
- Configuring VLANs on a vSphere Standard or Distributed Switch
- Configuring private VLANs on a dvSwitch
- Configuring LAGs on a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Creating user-defined network resource pools
- Using port mirroring on a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Enabling NetFlow on a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore
- Introduction
- Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host
- Viewing datastores available on an ESXi host
- Creating a VMFS datastore
- Managing multipathing configuration of a VMFS datastore
- Expanding or growing a VMFS datastore
- Extending a VMFS datastore
- Unmounting and detaching VMFS volumes
- Re-mounting a VMFS datastore
- Deleting VMFS datastores
- Upgrading from VMFS 5 to VMFS 6
- Managing VMFS volumes detected as snapshots
- Masking paths to a LUN
- Unmasking paths to a LUN
- Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage
- Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage
- Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
- Introduction
- Creating a virtual machine
- Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine
- Adding an existing disk to a virtual machine
- Attaching a Raw Device Mapping to a virtual machine
- Mapping a virtual machine's vNIC to a different port group
- Creating virtual machine snapshots
- Deleting a virtual machine snapshot
- Restoring a snapshot in linear snapshot tree
- Switching to an arbitrary virtual machine snapshot
- Consolidating snapshots
- Converting a virtual machine to a template
- Cloning a virtual machine to template
- Exporting to an OVF template
- Deploying a virtual machine from an OVF template
- Creating a local content library
- Creating a subscribed content library
- Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability
- Introduction
- Enabling vSphere HA on a cluster
- Configuring vSphere HA Admission Control
- Setting the host isolation response for a HA cluster
- Setting the VM restart priority for a HA cluster
- Configuring VM monitoring
- Configuring datastore heartbeating
- Disabling host monitoring
- Configuring vCenter Native High Availability
- Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
- Introduction
- Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster
- Configuring VMware Enhanced vMotion compatibility
- Choosing a DRS automation level
- Overriding the cluster automation level for a VM
- Setting a migration threshold
- Creating DRS VM or host groups
- Creating VMs to host affinity rules
- Creating VM affinity or anti-affinity rules
- Configuring Distributed Power Management
- Configuring Predictive DRS
- Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager
- Introduction
- Installing vSphere Update Manager on Windows
- Activating vSphere Update Manager in vCenter Server Appliance
- Installing the Update Manager download service
- Configuring VUM with a download source
- Creating a custom baseline
- Creating a baseline group
- Importing an ESXi image and updating a host
- Leveraging a VM/VA baseline to remediate a VM/VA
- Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility
- Introduction
- Regenerating a new VMCA Root Certificate and replacing all certificates
- Generating certificate signing requests with the vSphere Certificate Manager
- Replacing all certificates with custom certificate
- Reverting the last performed operation by republishing old certificates
- Resetting all certificates
- Using vSphere Management Assistant
- Introduction
- Deploying the vMA appliance
- Preparing VMware vMA for first use
- Configuring VMware vMA to join an existing domain
- Adding vCenter to vMA with AD authentication
- Adding vCenter to vMA with fastpass (fpauth) authentication
- Adding an ESXi host to vMA
- Changing the authentication policy
- Running CLI commands on target servers
- Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment
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