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 tasks related to ensuring IT infrastructure availability and data integrity(includir implementation, upgrades, and administration). He holds the VMware VCP65-DCV and Veeam VMCE professional certifications, and he has been awarded the VMware vExpert title(2015-18)and the Veeam Vanguard tite(2016-19) a big thanks to Andrea and Karel for including me in this project, my family for their support and patience during this hard woork, and all the people who supported me during this adventure Karel Novak has 18 years of experience in the If 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 has beer using VMware for 12 years and Veeam from the first version. He is a VMware vExpert 2012-2018, VMware vExpert NSX 2016-2018, and a Veeam Vanguard 2015-2019. His highest certifications are VCl-Level 2, VCIX6-NV, VCIX6-DCV, VMCT Mentor, and VMCA. He is also a VMware Certification Subject Matter Expert I must say thank you to Andrea and Paolo for this opportunity. Thank you to my, we ts me in all my projects. Thank you to all those woho support me in all the activities that i do
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 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 he has been awarded the VMware vExpert title (2015-18) and the Veeam Vanguard title (2016-19). A big thanks to Andrea and Karel for including me in this project, my family for their support and patience during this hard work, and all the people who supported me during this adventure. 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 has been using VMware for 12 years and Veeam from the first version. He is a VMware vExpert 2012-2018, VMware vExpert NSX 2016-2018, and a Veeam Vanguard 2015-2019. His highest certifications are VCI-Level 2, VCIX6-NV, VCIX6-DCV, VMCTMentor, and VMCA. He is also a VMware Certification Subject Matter Expert. I must say thank you to Andrea and Paolo for this opportunity. Thank you to my amazing wife, who supports me in all my projects. Thank you to all those around me who support me in all the activities that I do. |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||
About the reviewer Mathias Meyenburg is managing director of vleet gmbH with more than 15 years of experience in the If industry. Starting as a systems administrator, his career has progressed to operating and administering large-scale international data centers. He has constantly updated and expanded his know-how, and has acquired certifications such as CCNA, MCP, and VCP vleet GmbH sought him out in 2016 as a solutions architect for the whole VMware SDDC stack, Horizon desktop virtualization, Horizon Cloud on azure, and vMc on amazon Web services I would like to express my gratitude to my wife, Andrea, who had to carry the burden while l was occupied with this book and my career, and who lovingly looked after our kids while studying herself. Packt is searching for authors like you If you re interested in becoming an author for Packt, please visit authors. packtpub com and apply today. We have worked with thousands of developers and tech professionals, just like you, to help them share their insight with the global tech community. You can make a general application, apply for a specific hot topic that we are recruiting an author for, or submit your own idea
About the reviewer Mathias Meyenburg is managing director of vleet GmbH with more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Starting as a systems administrator, his career has progressed to operating and administering large-scale international data centers. He has constantly updated and expanded his know-how, and has acquired certifications such as CCNA, MCP, and VCP. vleet GmbH sought him out in 2016 as a solutions architect for the whole VMware SDDC stack, Horizon desktop virtualization, Horizon Cloud on Azure, and VMC on Amazon Web Services. I would like to express my gratitude to my wife, Andrea, who had to carry the burden while I was occupied with this book and my career, and who lovingly looked after our kids while studying herself. Packt is searching for authors like you If you're interested in becoming an author for Packt, please visit authors.packtpub.com and apply today. We have worked with thousands of developers and tech professionals, just like you, to help them share their insight with the global tech community. You can make a general application, apply for a specific hot topic that we are recruiting an author for, or submit your own idea. |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||
Table of contents Preface Section 1: Section 1: Getting Started Chapter 1: Evolution to vSphere 6.7 8 Introduction to VMware vSphere 8 vSphere strategy-the foundation of your unified hybrid cloud 10 Software-defined data center(SDDC) Virtualization versus containers VMware vSphere ecosystem 16 Data centers and cloud computing Storage and availability Network and security 17 End user computing Cloud management Cloud-native workloads Introduction to vmware cloud on aws Hardware specifications and sizing Physical location Pricing Interconnection with on-premises SDDC Connectivity to native AWs services 23 Certifications What's new in VMware VSphere 6.7? Key features Improved vCenter Server Appliance(VCSA) monitoring Improved vCenter backup management ESXi single-reboot upgrades ESXi Quick Boot Support for Remote Direct Memory Access(RDMA) vSphere persistent memor Virtual Trusted Platform Module(vTPM TPM 2.0 Microsoft virtualization-based security (VB Per-VM Enhanced vMotion Compatibility(Evc) 33 Hybrid linked mode Instant Clone Configuration maximums Virtual machine hardware 14 ESXi 6.7 hypervisors v Center server 6.7
Table of Contents Preface 1 Section 1: Section 1: Getting Started Chapter 1: Evolution to vSphere 6.7 8 Introduction to VMware vSphere 8 vSphere strategy – the foundation of your unified hybrid cloud 10 Software-defined data center (SDDC) 11 Virtualization versus containers 12 VMware vSphere ecosystem 16 Data centers and cloud computing 16 Storage and availability 16 Network and security 17 End user computing 19 Cloud management 19 Cloud-native workloads 20 Introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS 20 Hardware specifications and sizing 21 Physical location 22 Pricing 22 Interconnection with on-premises SDDC 23 Connectivity to native AWS services 23 Certifications 23 What's new in VMware vSphere 6.7? 24 Key features 25 vSphere Client (HTML-5) 25 Improved vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) monitoring 26 Improved vCenter backup management 27 ESXi single-reboot upgrades 28 ESXi Quick Boot 29 Support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) 30 vSphere persistent memory 31 Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) 31 TPM 2.0 32 Microsoft virtualization-based security (VBS) 32 Per-VM Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) 33 Hybrid linked mode 34 Instant Clone 35 Configuration maximums 35 Virtual machine hardware 14 36 ESXi 6.7 hypervisors 37 vCenter Server 6.7 38 |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||
Table of contents VMware vSphere 6.7 Editions VMware vSphere Editions VMware vSphere essentials Kits Remote Office Branch Office(ROBO)editions Reasons for and against upgrading Why upgrade? Why shouldn't you upgrade? Su Questions Further reading Chapter 2: Designing and Planning a virtualization Infrastructure 51 Planning a virtual infrastructure project Plan-Do-Check-Act(PDCA Waterfall ITIL V3 Improved waterfall 23457 ysical hardware considerations Physical form factor considerations Standard rack servers Blade servers Hyper-converged servers Resource comparison Hyper-converged systems Storage design considerations Standard storage array 65 Software-defined storage Network design considerations Three-tier architecture Access Distribution Core Leaf spine 6768888 Assess 70 Requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks 70 Design Conceptual desig Logical design 73 Physical desig ESXi host Storage Network connectivity Management vCenter server How to provide good documentation 8884 [i]
Table of Contents [ ii ] VMware vSphere 6.7 Editions 38 VMware vSphere Editions 39 VMware vSphere Essentials Kits 43 Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) editions 43 Reasons for and against upgrading 44 Why upgrade? 45 Why shouldn't you upgrade? 46 Upgrade paths 47 Summary 48 Questions 48 Further reading 50 Chapter 2: Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure 51 Planning a virtual infrastructure project 52 Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) 52 Waterfall 53 ITIL v3 54 Improved waterfall 55 Physical hardware considerations 57 Physical form factor considerations 57 Standard rack servers 57 Blade servers 60 Hyper-converged servers 62 Resource comparison 62 Hyper-converged systems 63 Storage design considerations 65 Standard storage arrays 65 Software-defined storage 65 Network design considerations 66 Three-tier architecture 67 Access 67 Distribution 68 Core 68 Leaf spine 68 Assess 69 The design objective 70 Requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks 70 Design 71 Conceptual design 72 Logical design 73 Physical design 75 ESXi host 76 Compute 77 Storage 78 Network connectivity 81 Management 83 vCenter Server 83 How to provide good documentation 84 |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||
Table of contents Best practices Reference architecture Different scenarios Enterprise Business requirements Possible constraints Main risks 8899 Some design decisions Small and medium-sized business (SMB) Business requirements Possible constraints Main risks Some design decisions 1122344 Possible constraints Main risks Examples of design decisions Summary Questions Further reading Chapter 3: Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing 101 Useful metrics from a physical environment Processor metrics Memory metrics Disk metrics 106 Network metrics Are all workloads good candidates to be virtualized? Existing tools to analyze a physical environment 109 VMware Capacity Planner (VCP) 110 Virtual Storage Area Network(VSAN) sizing tools 110 Dell Live Optics 111 Microsoft Assessment and Planning(MAP)Toolkit 111 Assessing an existing virtual environment 112 Discovery and inventory 113 Health check Benchmarks DVD Store Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Benchmark(HCIBench) 116 Existing tools for analyzing a virtual environment 117 RVTool 119 VOA VMware vSphere Health Check Summary Questions [iiil
Table of Contents [ iii ] Best practices 84 Reference architecture 85 VVD 86 Different scenarios 88 Enterprise 88 Business requirements 88 Possible constraints 89 Main risks 89 Some design decisions 89 Small and medium-sized business (SMB) 90 Business requirements 91 Possible constraints 91 Main risks 92 Some design decisions 92 ROBO 93 Business requirements 94 Possible constraints 94 Main risks 95 Examples of design decisions 95 Summary 97 Questions 97 Further reading 98 Chapter 3: Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments 99 Analyzing a physical environment before virtualizing 101 Useful metrics from a physical environment 103 Processor metrics 103 Memory metrics 104 Disk metrics 106 Network metrics 106 Are all workloads good candidates to be virtualized? 107 Existing tools to analyze a physical environment 109 VMware Capacity Planner (VCP) 110 Virtual Storage Area Network (vSAN) sizing tools 110 Dell Live Optics 111 Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 111 Assessing an existing virtual environment 112 Discovery and inventory 113 Health check 116 Benchmarks 116 DVD Store 116 Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Benchmark (HCIBench) 116 Existing tools for analyzing a virtual environment 117 RVTools 119 VOA 120 VMware vSphere Health Check 121 Summary 122 Questions 122 |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||