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Title Page
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook Third Edition
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Contributors
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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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The Virtual Data Center
Benefits and technologies of virtualization
The hypervisor
Virtual machines
Virtual infrastructure management
Understanding the benefits of virtualization
Identifying when not to virtualize
Becoming a virtual data center architect
How it works…
There's more…
Using a holistic approach to data center design
How to do it…
How it works…
Passing the VMware VCAP6-DCV Design exam
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more…
Becoming a VMware Certified Design Expert
How to do it…
There's more…
Identifying what's new in vSphere 6.7
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Planning a vSphere 6.7 upgrade
How to do it…
How it works…
The Discovery Process
Identifying the design factors
How to do it…
How it works…
Identifying stakeholders
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Conducting stakeholder interviews
How to do it…
How it works…
Using VMware Capacity Planner
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Using Windows Performance Monitor
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Conducting a VMware optimization assessment
How to do it…
How it works…
Identifying dependencies
How to do it…
How it works…
The Design Factors
Identifying design requirements
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Identifying design constraints
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Making design assumptions
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Identifying design risks
How to do it…
How it works…
Considering infrastructure design qualities
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Creating the conceptual design
How to do it…
How it works…
Design requirements
Design constraints
Assumptions
There's more…
vSphere Management Design
Identifying vCenter components and dependencies
How to do it…
How it works…
Selecting a vCenter deployment option
How to do it…
How it works…
Determining vCenter resource requirements
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Selecting a database for the vCenter deployment
How to do it…
How it works…
Determining database interoperability
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Choosing a vCenter deployment topology
How to do it…
How it works…
Designing for management availability
How to do it…
How it works…
Designing a separate management cluster
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Configuring vCenter mail, SNMP, and alarms
How to do it…
How it works…
Using Enhanced Linked Mode
How to do it…
How it works…
Using the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Backing up the vCenter Server components
How to do it…
How it works…
Planning vCenter HA to increase vCenter availability
How to do it…
How it works…
Upgrading vCenter Server
How to do it…
How it works…
Designing a vSphere Update Manager Deployment
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
vSphere Storage Design
Identifying RAID levels
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Calculating storage capacity requirements
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Determining storage performance requirements
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Calculating storage throughput
How to do it…
How it works…
Storage connectivity options
How to do it…
How it works…
Storage path selection plugins
How to do it…
How it works…
Sizing datastores
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Designing VSAN for virtual machine storage
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Using VMware Virtual Volumes
How to do it…
How it works…
Incorporating storage policies into a design
How to do it…
How it works…
NFS version 4.1 capabilities and limits
How to do it…
How it works…
Using persistent memory to maximize VM performance
How to do it…
How it works…
vSphere Network Design
Determining network bandwidth requirements
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Standard or distributed virtual switches
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Providing network availability
How to do it…
How it works…
Network resource management
How to do it…
How it works…
Using private VLANs
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
IP storage network design considerations
How to do it…
How it works…
Using jumbo frames
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating custom TCP/IP stacks
How to do it…
How it works…
Designing for VMkernel services
How to do it…
How it works…
vMotion network design considerations
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Using 10 GbE converged network adapters
How to do it…
How it works…
IPv6 in a vSphere design
How to do it…
How it works…
Remote direct memory access options
How to do it…
How it works…
vSphere Compute Design
Calculating CPU resource requirements
How to do it…
How it works…
Calculating memory resource requirements
How to do it…
How it works…
Transparent page sharing
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Scaling up or scaling out
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Determining the vCPU-to-core ratio
How to do it…
How it works…
Clustering compute resources
How to do it…
How it works…
Reserving HA resources to support failover
How to do it…
How it works…
Using distributed resource scheduling to balance cluster resources
How to do it…
How it works…
Ensuring cluster vMotion compatibility
How to do it…
How it works…
Using resource pools
How to do it…
How it works…
Providing Fault Tolerance protection
How to do it…
How it works…
Leveraging host flash
How to do it…
How it works…
vSphere Physical Design
Using the VMware Hardware Compatibility List
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Understanding the physical storage design
How to do it…
How it works…
Understanding the physical network design
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating the physical compute design
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a custom ESXi image
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
The best practices for ESXi host BIOS settings
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Upgrading an ESXi host
How to do it…
How it works…
Virtual Machine Design
Right-sizing virtual machines
How to do it…
How it works…
Enabling CPU hot add and memory hot plug
How to do it…
How it works…
Using paravirtualized VM hardware
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating virtual machine templates
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Upgrading and installing VMware Tools
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Upgrading VM virtual hardware
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Using vApps to organize virtualized applications
How to do it…
How it works…
Using VM affinity and anti-affinity rules
How to do it…
How it works…
Using VM to Host affinity and anti-affinity rules
How to do it…
How it works…
Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone
How to do it…
How it works…
Migrating servers into vSphere
How to do it…
How it works…
vSphere Security Design
Managing the single sign-on password policy
How to do it…
How it works…
Managing single sign-on identity sources
How to do it…
How it works…
Security design with the VMware Certificate Authority
How to do it…
How it works…
Using Active Directory for host authentication
How to do it…
How it works…
ESXi firewall configuration
How to do it…
How it works…
ESXi Lockdown Mode
How to do it…
How it works…
Configuring role-based access control
How to do it…
How it works…
Virtual network security
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Using the VMware vSphere 6 Hardening Guide
How to do it…
How it works…
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Backing up ESXi host configurations
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Configuring ESXi host logging
How to do it…
How it works…
Backing up virtual distributed switch configurations
How to do it…
How it works...
Deploying Veeam Backup and Replication
How to do it…
How it works…
Using Veeam Backup and Replication to back up virtual machines
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Replicating virtual machines with vSphere Replication
How to do it…
How it works…
Protecting the virtual data center with Site Recovery Manager
How to do it…
How it works…
Design Documentation
Creating the architecture design document
How to do it…
How it works…
Writing an implementation plan
How to do it…
How it works…
Developing an installation guide
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a validation test plan
How to do it…
How it works…
Writing operational procedures
How to do it…
How it works…
Presenting the design
How to do it…
How it works…
Implementing the design
How to do it…
How it works…
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