The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

Explore the benefits of VMware vSphere 6.7 to provide a powerful, flexible, and secure virtual infrastructure, and secure apps. Next, you'll pick up on how to enhance your infrastructure with high-performance storage access, such as remote direct memory access (RDMA) and Persistent

Key Features

• Design, deploy and manage VMware vSphere virtual data centers
• Implement monitoring and security of VMware workloads with ease
• Explore tips and techniques for designing a robust virtual infrastructure

Book Description

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware's industry-leading virtual cloud platform. By understanding how to manage, secure, and scale apps with vSphere 6.7, you can easily run even the most demanding of workloads. This Learning Path begins with an overview of the features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You'll learn how to plan and design a virtual infrastructure. You'll also gain insights into best practices to efficiently configure, manage, and secure apps. Next, you'll pick up on how to enhance your infrastructure with high-performance storage access, such as remote direct memory access (RDMA) and Persistent memory. The book will even guide you in securing your network with security features, such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption. Finally, by learning how to apply Proactive High Availability and Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you'll be able to achieve enhanced computing, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.

By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run high workloads.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition by Mike Brown and Hersey Cartwright
• Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition by Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, and Paolo Valsecchi

What you will learn

• Understand how to patch, upgrade, and manage a virtual environment with vSphere 6.7
• 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
• Map the logical resource design into the physical vSphere design
• Create professional vSphere design documentation

Who this book is for

This Learning Path is for administrators, infrastructure engineers, consultants, and architects who want to design virtualized data center environments using VMware vSphere 6.x (or previous versions of vSphere and the supporting components). Basic knowledge of VMware vSphere is required to get the most out of this Learning Path.

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. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
11. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7
12. Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading
13. VM Deployment and Management
14. VM Resource Management
15. Availability and Disaster Recovery
16. Securing and Protecting Your Environment
17. Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment
18. Troubleshooting Your Environment
19. Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.

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.

Andrea Mauro has more than 20 years of industrial and academic experience in IT. 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, Nutanix NTC, Veeam Vanguard, and was a Microsoft MVP.

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 is a VMware vExpert, VMware vExpert NSX, and a Veeam Vanguard. His highest certifications are VCI-Level 2, VCIX6-NV, VCIX6-DCV, VMCT-Mentor, and VMCA. He is also a VMware certification subject matter expert.

Paolo Valsecchi has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years and 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 has been awarded the VMware vExpert title and the Veeam Vanguard title.