VMware ESXi Cookbook by Kajamoideen, Mohammed Raffic -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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1. Installing and Configuring ESXi

Introduction Installing ESXi using Interactive Mode

Getting ready How to do it... There's more…

Deploying ESXi hosts using scripted installation

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Deploying ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy

Getting ready How to do it… There's more…

Installing vSphere Client

Getting ready How to do it…

Configuring NTP settings on the ESXi host

Getting ready How to do it… There's more...

Configuring DNS and Routing

Getting ready How to do it… There's more...

Licensing an ESXi host

How to do it…

2. Installing and Using vCenter

Introduction Installing vCenter SSO

Getting ready How to do it… There's more…

Installing VMware vCenter

Getting ready How to do it…

Installing vSphere Web Client

Getting ready How to do it…

Installing vSphere Auto Deploy

How to do it…

Working with the vCenter inventory objects

Getting ready How to do it…

Creating a Datacenter object Creating a cluster object Adding ESXi hosts

Configuring the vCenter Server settings

How to do it…

Configuring the licensing Configuring the statistics settings Configuring the runtime settings Configuring the user directory settings Configuring the mail settings Configuring the SNMP settings Configuring the timeout settings Configuring the logging options Configuring the database settings Configuring SSL settings Configuring advanced settings

Working with tags

How to do it…

Creating a tag category Creating a tag Assigning a tag to an object

Using schedule tasks

How to do it…

Creating a schedule task Removing a schedule task

There's more…

vCenter maps The log browser Roles and permission

Managing the plug-ins in vCenter

How to do it…

Installing plug-ins Enabling and disabling the plug-ins

There's more…

Deploying the VMware vCenter Server Appliance

Getting ready How to do it… There's more…

3. Networking

Introduction Creating and deleting VM network port groups

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Creating VMkernel port groups

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Modifying vSwitch properties

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Working with vSphere Distributed Switches

Getting ready How to do it… How it works... There's more...

Configuring Private VLANs (PVLAN)

Getting ready How to do it… How it works…

Working with advanced networking

Getting ready How do to it…

Network rollback Network recovery Working with NetFlow Switch discovery protocol

How it works…

Enabling jumbo frames

Getting ready How to do it… How it works… There's more…

Configuring network policies

Getting ready How to do it…

Port blocking policy Monitoring policy Resource allocation policy

How it works… There's more…

Security policy Load balancing and failover policy

Load balancing Network failure detection Notify switches Failback Failover order

4. Storage

Introduction Implementing the iSCSI storage

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Implementing FC and FCoE storages

Getting ready How to do it… There's more...

Configuring Raw Device Mapping

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Managing VMFS and NFS datastores

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Configuring the storage profiles of a virtual machine

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

5. Resource Management and High Availability

Introduction Preparing hosts for vMotion

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Implementing resource pools

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Implementing Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

VM-VM affinity rules VM-Host affinity rules

Implementing Distributed Power Management (DPM)

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Implementing High Availability (HA)

Getting ready How to do it...

Configuring host monitoring Configuring HA admission control Configuring VM monitoring Configuring datastore heartbeating Configuring HA advanced options

How it works... There's more...

Configuring virtual machine override options

Implementing Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduling (SDRS)

Getting ready How to do it...

Disabling storage DRS

How it works... There's more...

Storage DRS affinity rules Configuring VM anti-affinity rules

6. Managing Virtual Machines

Introduction Deploying virtual machines

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Installing and customizing a guest operating system

Getting ready How to do it.. There's more...

Configuring the ESXi host and VM for Fault Tolerance

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Configuring virtual machine hardware

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Configuring virtual machine's options

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Creating snapshots, templates, and clones

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

7. Securing the ESXi Server and Virtual Machines

Introduction Configuring the ESXi firewall

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Enabling the Lockdown mode

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Managing ESXi authentication

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Managing ESXi certificates

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Configuring logging for virtual machines

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Configuring security settings for virtual machines

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

8. Performance Monitoring and Alerts

Introduction Running vCenter performance monitoring graphs

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Configuring SNMP for ESXi and vCenter

Getting ready How to do it.. There's more...

Configuring SNMP settings for vCenter Server

Running performance monitoring using ESXTOP

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Configuring vCenter alarms

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Managing log files

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

9. vSphere Update Manager

Introduction Installing Update Manager

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... There's more...

Configuring Update Manager

Getting ready How to do it… There's more...

Creating and managing baselines

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Creating a host baseline group Creating a virtual machine and virtual appliance baseline group Attaching baselines and baseline groups to vSphere objects

Scanning and remediating vSphere objects

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

Configuring UMDS

Getting ready How to do it... There's more...

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