Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5: Deliver great business value by adopting the virtualization platform VMware vSphere 6.5, from the design to the deployment

by Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak

Overview

Deliver great business value by adopting the virtualization platform VMware vSphere 6.5, from the design to the deployment

• This new edition is based on vSphere 6.5 and has described new features in different areas, including management, security, scalability, availability and so on.

• Design, deploy and manage VMware datacenters

• Implement monitoring and security of VMware workloads with ease.

If you are an administrator, infrastructure engineer, IT architect, or an IT consultant and analyst who has basic knowledge of VMware vSphere and now wants to master it, then this book is for you.

• Get a deep understanding of vSphere 6.5 functionalities

• Design and plan a virtualization environment based on vSphere 6.5

• Manage and administer a vSphere 6.5 environment and resources

• Get tips for the VCP6-DCV and VCIX6-DCV exams (along with use of the vSphere 6 documentation)

• Implement different migration techniques to move your workload across different environments.

• Save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure.

VMware vSphere 6.5 provides a powerful, flexible and secure foundation for next-generation applications which helps you create an effective digital transformation. This book will be based on VMware vSphere 6.5 which empowers you to virtualize any complex application with ease.

You'll begin by getting an overview of all the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.5 suite, comparing the evolutions with the previous releases. Next ,you'll design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive planning and performance analysis. Following this , you will be proceeding with workflow and installation of components. New network trends are also covered which will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment. You will also learn the practices and procedures involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.5, you'll make use of significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment. Next we'll focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere.

Towards the end of the book you will get information on how to save your configuration, data and workload from your virtual infrastructure. By the end of the book you'll learn about VMware vSphere 6.5 right from design to deployment and management.

This book acts as a reference guide providing real-world scenarios and a possible baseline for each virtualization project based on VMware vSphere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787283909
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	12/15/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	598
File size:	100 MB
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About the Author

Andrea Mauro has 20 years of experience in IT, both in the industry and the academic world. He currently works as a solution architect in an Italian IT company (founded in 2000). He is responsible for infrastructure implementation, architecture design, upgrades, and migration processes.
He is a virtualization and storage architect, specializing in VMware, but also Microsoft, Citrix, and Linux solutions. His first virtualized solution in production was built around ESX 2.x several years ago.
He is a VMware Italian User Group founder and board member, VMTN community moderator, vBrownbag and Backup Academy contributor, and a passionate blogger.
His professional certifications include not only several VMware certifications (VCP3/4/5/6-DCV, vSAN 2017 Specialist, different VCAP, VCIX6-DCV, VCIX-NV, VCDX3/4/5/6-DCV), but also other vendor-related certifications (MCITP, MCSA, MCSE, NPP, CCA, EMCIE, EMCSA, VMCE, VMCA). He is also a VMware vExpert (2010-17), Nutanix NTC (2014-17), and Veeam Vanguard (2015-17), and he was a Microsoft MVP (2014-16).

Paolo Valsecchi has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years, and he currently works as a system engineer mainly focused on VMware vSphere, Microsoft technologies, and backup/DR solutions. His current role involves covering all of the tasks related to ensuring the IT infrastructure availability and data integrity (implementation, upgrade, and administration).
He holds the VMware VCP5-DCV, Veeam VMCE professional certifications, and he has been awarded the VMware vExpert title (2015-17) and the Veeam Vanguard title (2016-17).

Karel Novak has 16 years of experience in the IT world. He currently works as a senior virtual infrastructure engineer at Arrow ECS, the Czech Republic, responsible for implementation, design, and complete consultation of VMware and Veeam. As an instructor of advanced VMware and Veeam, he has delivered many courses.
He specializes in VMware DCV and NSX and of course Veeam. He has been using VMware for 10 years and Veeam from the first version. He is the VMware User Group Leader for the Czech Republic, and Veeam User Group Czech Republic founder and unofficial Leader.
He is a VMware vExpert 2012-2017, VMware vExpert NSX 2016-2017, and a Veeam Vanguard 2015-2017.
His highest certifications are VCI-Level2, VCIX6-NV, VCIX6-DCV, VMCT-Mentor, and VMCA. He is also a VMware Certification Subject Matter Expert.

Table of Contents

1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite
2. Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure
3. Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment
4. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
5. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5
6. Advanced Network Management
7. Advanced Storage Management
8. Advanced VM and Resource Management
9. Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting
10. Securing and Protecting Your Environment
11. Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading
12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
13. Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5
14. Data and Workloads Protection