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by Abhilash G B
VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook - Fourth Edition
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook Fourth Edition
Dedication
About Packt
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Contributors
About the author
About the reviewer
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Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Conventions used
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
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Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure
Installing ESXi – the interactive method
Getting ready
Hardware requirements
Software required for the installation
Using the ESXi image
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring the ESXi Management Network
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
OUI MAC addresses
Scripted deployment of ESXi
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Deploying vCenters in a Linked Mode configuration
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) identity sources
How to do it...
Part 1 – Joining the PSC to Active Directory
Part 2 – Adding the identity source
How it works...
Configuring vCenter Roles and Permissions
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Joining ESXi to an Active Directory domain
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere
Planning the upgrade of your vSphere infrastructure
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Running VMware Migration Assistant
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Upgrading Platform Services Controllers (PSCs)
Getting ready
How to do it...
Migrating PSC (Windows) to PSC (Appliance) 6.7
Upgrading PSC Appliance to PSC 6.7
How it works...
Upgrading vCenter Servers
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Using the vCenter Convergence Tool
Getting ready
How to do it...
Decommissioning external PSCs
How it works...
Upgrading ESXi using the interactive installer
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Upgrading ESXi using the command-line interface
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches
Creating vSphere Standard Switches
Getting ready
How to do it...
Creating a vSwitch using the HTML5 client
Creating a vSwitch using the ESXi command-line interface
How it works...
Creating Virtual Machine Port Groups on vSphere Standard Switches
Getting ready
How to do it...
Creating a standard port group using the HTML5 interface
Creating a standard port group using the ESXi CLI
How it works...
Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on vSphere Standard Switches
Getting ready
How to do it...
Creating a VMkernel interface using the HTML5 client
Creating VMkernel interfaces using the ESXi CLI
How it works...
Creating additional VMkernel TCP/IP stacks
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Managing the Physical Uplinks of a vSphere Standard Switch
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming and Failover
How to do it...
Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches
Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS)
How to do it...
How it works...
Connecting ESXi hosts to a vDS
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating Distributed Port Groups (dvPortGroup)
How to do it...
How it works...
Port binding and port allocation
Network resource pool
VLAN type
Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming, and Failover
How to do it...
How it works...
Security
Promiscuous mode
MAC address changes and forged transmits
Traffic shaping
Teaming and failover
Route based on the originating virtual port ID
Route based on source MAC hash
Route based on IP hash
Route based on physical NIC load
Use explicit failover order
Network failure detection
Notify switches
Failback
Failover order
There's more...
Configuring VLANs on vDS
How to do it...
How it works...
External switch tagging
VST
VGT
Configuring Private VLANs on a vDS
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) on a vDS
How to do it...
Setting LAG as a standby uplink on distributed port groups
Reassigning the physical network adapters of hosts to the LAG ports
Setting the LAG to be the only active uplink on the distributed port groups
How it works...
Configuring user-defined network pools—NIOC
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Migrating Virtual Machine Network from vSS to vDS
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Migrating VMkernel interfaces from vSS to vDS
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Configuring port mirroring on vDS
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring NetFlow on vDS
How to do it...
How it works...
Upgrading a vDS
How to do it...
How it works...
Backing up and restoring a vDS
How to do it...
Exporting vDS configuration
Restoring from a backup
How it works...
Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment
Connecting ESXi hosts to a Fabric Storage
How to do it...
How it works...
Designing for redundancy
Avoiding single points of failure at the ESXi host
Avoiding single points of failure at the fabric
Avoiding single points of failure at the storage array
Fabric Zoning and Masking
Connecting ESXi to iSCSI Storage
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
iSCSI multipathing using Port Binding
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Connecting ESXi hosts to NFS Storage
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Viewing storage devices and datastores on ESXi hosts
How to do it...
How it works...
Masking paths to a storage device
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Unmasking paths to a storage device
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
Creating VMFS datastores
How to do it...
How it works...
Upgrading VMFS datastores
How to do it...
How it works...
Managing Storage Multipathing
How to do it...
How it works...
NMP
Multipathing – array types
Active/active arrays
Active/passive arrays
Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) Arrays
Expanding or growing a VMFS datastore
How to do it...
How it works...
Extending a VMFS datastore
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Unmounting VMFS datastores and detaching storage devices
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Attaching storage devices and remounting VMFS datastores
How to do it...
How it works...
Managing VMFS snapshots
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage
Configuring Disk Shares on VM storage
How to do it...
How it works...
Enabling SIOC
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Balancing storage utilization using Storage DRS (SDRS)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Defining storage capabilities using vCenter Tags
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating VM Storage Policies
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
DRS automation levels
Migration threshold
Changing the default DRS behavior
How to do it...
How it works...
VM distribution 
Memory metric for load balancing
CPU over-commitment
Configuring VM Automation
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating DRS Groups
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating DRS VMs to Host Affinity Rules
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating DRS Inter-VM Affinity Rules
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring Predictive DRS
Getting ready
How to do it...
Configuring vROPS for Predictive DRS
Enabling Predictive DRS
How it works...
Configuring DPM
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Using VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
How to do it...
How it works...
Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment
Enabling vSphere High Availability
How to do it...
How it works...
Host Failure Response
VM restart priority
VM dependency restart condition
Response for Host Isolation
Configuring vCenter Admission Control
How to do it...
How it works...
Cluster resource percentage 
The slot policy (power-on VMs) 
Dedicated failover hosts
Performance degradation VMs tolerate
Configuring Heartbeat Datastores
How to do it...
How it works...
Overriding Restart Priority for Virtual Machines
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating VM to VM Dependency Rules
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Disabling Host Monitoring
How to do it...
How it works...
Enabling Virtual Machine Monitoring
How to do it...
How it works...
Enabling Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP)
How to do it...
How it works...
Datastore with PDL
Datastore with APD
APD response recovery and response delay
Configuring vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Limitations
Configuring vCenter Native High Availability (VCHA)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles
Creating Host Profiles
Getting ready
How to do it...
Associating Host Profiles with ESXi hosts or clusters
How to do it...
Checking Host Profile Compliance
Getting ready
How to do it...
Scheduling Host Profile Compliance Checks
How to do it...
How it works...
Performing Host Customizations
Getting ready
How to do it...
Remediating non-compliant Hosts
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Using Host Profiles to push a configuration change
How to do it...
How it works...
Copying settings between Host Profiles
How to do it...
How it works...
Exporting Host Profiles
How to do it...
Importing Host Profiles
How to do it...
Duplicating Host Profiles
How to do it...
Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder
Enabling ESXi Image Builder
How to do it...
How it works...
Importing a Software Depot
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an Online Software Depot
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a Custom Software Depot
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Cloning Image Profiles
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating Image Profiles using Software Packages
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Comparing Image Profiles
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Moving Image Profiles between Software Depots
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Exporting Image Profiles
How to do it...
How it works...
Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts
Enabling vSphere Auto Deploy
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server for an ESXi PXE boot environment
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Configuring the DHCP server for a PXE boot
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating vSphere Auto Deploy rules
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring Stateless Caching
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Deploying Stateful ESXi hosts
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
Creating a Virtual Machine
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Virtual machine components
Files that back a virtual machine
Creating Virtual Machine Snapshots
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
See also
Deleting Virtual Machine Snapshots
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Reverting to the current Virtual Machine Snapshot
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Switching to an Arbitrary Virtual Machine Snapshot
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Consolidating Snapshots
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Exporting a Virtual Machine
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager
Downloading Patch Definitions
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating Patch Baselines
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating Host Upgrade Baselines
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating Baseline Groups
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring Update Manager's Remediation Settings
How to do it...
How it works...
Patching/upgrading ESXi hosts using Update Manager
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Upgrading VMware Tools and virtual hardware using Update Manager 
Getting ready
How to do it...
Installing the Update Manager Download Service on Linux
Getting ready
How to do it...
Configuring UMDS to download patches
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring a Web Server on UMDS (Linux)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates
Using VMCA as a Subordinate or Intermediary CA
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Certificate management using the Hybrid approach
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Renewing ESXi certificates
How to do it...
Trusting root certificates to stop browser security warnings
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure
Using esxtop to monitor performance
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Exporting/importing esxtop configurations
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Running esxtop in batch mode
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Gathering VM I/O statistics using vscsiStats
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Using vCenter Performance Charts
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
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