Table of contents Troubleshooting storage Troubleshooting VMs Summary Questions Further reading Section 4: Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment Chapter 15: Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab The importance of lifelong learning 627 Why build a lab? VMware Hands-On Lab(HOL) VMware forums Blogs Choosing the right platform Standard rack servers Desktop PC Small dedicated Pcs Cloud-based solutions a dedicated server in a data center Software components and licensing VMware licensing VMware EVALExperience 33446 Windows licensing Other software components 636 Storag Architecture and logical design The architecture of the lab The Master ESXi hypervisor iSCSI storage Virtual router Management station 333 999 IP address plan 640 Management network 640 vMotion network 640 iSCSI network 641 Production network A detailed implementation guide 642 Master ESXi server confiquration 642 Network configuration 643 Virtual switches Port groups Virtual router Virtual router configuration 647 I]
Table of Contents [ xiv ] Troubleshooting storage 621 Troubleshooting VMs 621 Summary 623 Questions 623 Further reading 624 Section 4: Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment Chapter 15: Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab 626 The importance of lifelong learning 627 Why build a lab? 627 VMware Hands-On Lab (HOL) 627 VMware forums 628 Blogs 629 Choosing the right platform 629 Standard rack servers 630 Desktop PC 631 Small, dedicated PCs 632 Cloud-based solutions 632 A dedicated server in a data center 633 Software components and licensing 633 VMware licensing 634 VMware EVALExperience 634 Windows licensing 636 Other software components 636 Storage 636 Networking 636 Architecture and logical design 637 The architecture of the lab 638 The Master ESXi hypervisor 639 iSCSI storage 639 Virtual router 639 Management station 639 AD 639 IP address plan 640 Management network 640 vMotion network 640 iSCSI network 641 Production network 641 A detailed implementation guide 642 Master ESXi server configuration 642 Network configuration 643 Virtual switches 643 Port groups 644 Virtual machines 645 Virtual router 646 Virtual router configuration 647 |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||
Table of contents Firewalls and access to the virtual router DNS confi License configuration VLAN configuration Windows infrastructure DCo1learnvmware local DC02. learnvmware local Mgmt. learnvmware local 658 iscsi. learnymware local 660 iSCSI target configuration 661 DNS configuration Centralized management 665 iSCSI target configuration 666 ESXi serve Network configuration sWitche VMkernel ports 674 Network verification 674 Storage configuration 675 The vCenter server vSphere configuration Assessment other Books You May Enjoy 697 Index
Table of Contents [ xv ] Firewalls and access to the virtual router 648 DNS configuration 650 License configuration 651 VLAN configuration 652 Windows infrastructure 653 DC01.learnvmware.local 653 DC02.learnvmware.local 657 Mgmt.learnvmware.local 658 iscsi.learnvmware.local 660 Storage design 660 iSCSI target configuration 661 DNS configuration 663 Centralized management 665 iSCSI target configuration 666 ESXi servers 669 Network configuration 671 vSwitches 671 Port groups 672 VMkernel ports 674 Network verification 674 Storage configuration 675 The vCenter Server 679 vSphere configuration 683 Summary 685 Assessment 686 Other Books You May Enjoy 697 Index 700 |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||
Preface VMware vSphere provides a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for next generation applications to help you achieve an effective digital transformation Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, Second Edition, begins by covering an overview of all he products, solutions, and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite, comparing 6.7 with previous releases. You'll learn how to design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive performance analysis and then proceed with workflows and the installation of components. Along with new network trends that will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment, you will also learn the best practices involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure With vSphere 6.7, you'll make use of more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment and focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. The concluding chapters of the book will provide information on how to save your configuration, data, and workload from your virtual infrastructure and teach you different approaches on how to build your own VMware vSphere lab to help you run even the most demanding workloads By the end of the book, you'll have learned about VMware vSphere 6.7, right from design to deployment and management. Who this book is for If you are an administrator, infrastructure engineer, IT architect, or an IT consultant and analyst who has some basic knowledge of VMware vSphere and now wants to master it, then this book is for you What this book covers Chapter 1, Evolution to oSphere 6.7, provides a general overview of all the products, solutions, and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite, comparing 6.7 with previous releases. This chapter will explain why you should choose(and why you should not will briefly describe the different editions and licenses of \sphercproducts.Also,it choose, in some cases)vSphere 6.7 over previous versions or other
Preface VMware vSphere provides a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for nextgeneration applications to help you achieve an effective digital transformation efficiently. Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, Second Edition, begins by covering an overview of all the products, solutions, and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite, comparing 6.7 with previous releases. You'll learn how to design and plan a virtualization infrastructure to drive performance analysis and then proceed with workflows and the installation of components. Along with new network trends that will help you in optimally designing the vSphere environment, you will also learn the best practices involved in configuring and managing virtual machines in a vSphere infrastructure. With vSphere 6.7, you'll make use of more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment and focus on specific availability and resiliency solutions in vSphere. The concluding chapters of the book will provide information on how to save your configuration, data, and workload from your virtual infrastructure and teach you different approaches on how to build your own VMware vSphere lab to help you run even the most demanding workloads. By the end of the book, you'll have learned about VMware vSphere 6.7, right from design to deployment and management. Who this book is for If you are an administrator, infrastructure engineer, IT architect, or an IT consultant and analyst who has some basic knowledge of VMware vSphere and now wants to master it, then this book is for you. What this book covers Chapter 1, Evolution to vSphere 6.7, provides a general overview of all the products, solutions, and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite, comparing 6.7 with previous releases. This chapter will explain why you should choose (and why you should not choose, in some cases) vSphere 6.7 over previous versions or other products. Also, it will briefly describe the different editions and licenses of vSphere. |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||
a virtualization project and build proper infrastructure by providing an approach an Chapter 2, Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure, describes how to pla both for planning and desig Chapter 3, Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments, explains how to analyze and assess an existing physical or virtual environment in order to gain data thats useful for planning your migration, upgrade, or improvement. Different tools and approaches are described as a way of reaching this goal Chapter 4, Deployment Workflow and Component Installation, starts by explaining the components of vSphere and the roles and services they provide. We will walk through the main aspects to consider in terms of the preparation of a deployment plan for your environment, analyzing the criteria for hardware platform selection, storage, and network requirements Chapter 5, Configuring and Managing oSphere 6.7, describes the different ways to manage a vSphere 6.7 infrastructure, including the new hTML5 clients, and also contains an introduction to the scripting and automation tools. ESXi, vCenter, VMware cluster-related configuration, and management topics are covered in this Chapter 6, Life Cycle Management, Patching, and upgrading, looks at how, with vSphere 6.7, administrators will find significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment using the Update Manager and Host Profile features. We also cover the upgrade path and considerations to make regarding upgrading or migrating your virtual environment Chapter 7, Managing Networking Resources, is dedicated to virtual networking, both with standard and distributed virtual switches, and covers the design, management, and optimization of a virtual network in a vSphere environment. Chapter 8, Managing Storage Resources, details the storage aspect of a virtual infrastructure, starting from local block-based storage and extending into shared block storage with Fibre Channel(FC), FC over Ethernet(FCoE), internet Small Computer System Interface(iscsi) protocols, and NFS-based NAS storage Chapter 9, VM Deployment and Management, introduces the practices and procedures involved in deploying, configuring, and managing Virtual Machines(VMs)in a vSphere infrastructure. Different types of VM provisioning ar idered, including use of templates, the content library, and OVF. [2]
Preface [ 2 ] Chapter 2, Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure, describes how to plan a virtualization project and build proper infrastructure by providing an approach both for planning and design. Chapter 3, Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments, explains how to analyze and assess an existing physical or virtual environment in order to gain data that's useful for planning your migration, upgrade, or improvement. Different tools and approaches are described as a way of reaching this goal. Chapter 4, Deployment Workflow and Component Installation, starts by explaining the components of vSphere and the roles and services they provide. We will walk through the main aspects to consider in terms of the preparation of a deployment plan for your environment, analyzing the criteria for hardware platform selection, storage, and network requirements. Chapter 5, Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7, describes the different ways to manage a vSphere 6.7 infrastructure, including the new HTML5 clients, and also contains an introduction to the scripting and automation tools. ESXi, vCenter, VMware cluster-related configuration, and management topics are covered in this chapter. Chapter 6, Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading, looks at how, with vSphere 6.7, administrators will find significantly more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of the virtual environment using the Update Manager and Host Profile features. We also cover the upgrade path and considerations to make regarding upgrading or migrating your virtual environment. Chapter 7, Managing Networking Resources, is dedicated to virtual networking, both with standard and distributed virtual switches, and covers the design, management, and optimization of a virtual network in a vSphere environment. Chapter 8, Managing Storage Resources, details the storage aspect of a virtual infrastructure, starting from local block-based storage and extending into shared block storage with Fibre Channel (FC), FC over Ethernet (FCoE), internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocols, and NFS-based NAS storage. Chapter 9, VM Deployment and Management, introduces the practices and procedures involved in deploying, configuring, and managing Virtual Machines (VMs) in a vSphere infrastructure. Different types of VM provisioning are considered, including use of templates, the content library, and OVF. |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||
Chapter 10, VM Resource management, provides a comprehensive view of vSphere resources management, including reservations, limits, and shares, and how to balance and optimize them in your environment. Finally, we will discuss different migration techniques for moving your workload across different environments Chapter 11, Availability and Disaster Recovery, focuses on specific availability(and resiliency) solutions in vSphere, including the new vSphere High Availability(HA) features, proactive HA, VSphere Fault Tolerance(FT), and other solutions, such as guest clustering Chapter 12, Securing and Protecting Your Environment, looks at how security has become a critical part of any implementation, including virtual environments. In other important related features(though some were introduced with version6.5/gs addition to the security and hardening aspects of vSphere, the new 6.7 version brin such as VM encryption, encrypted vMotion, secure boot support for VMs, and secure boot plus cryptographic hypervisor assurance for ESXi. Chapter 13, Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment, covers the native tools used to improve the virtual environment and workloads. This chapter focuses on in order to monitor your environment for performance analysis or for possible issue monitoring different critical resources, such as computing, storage, and networking resources, across ESXi hosts, resource pools, and clusters. Other tools, such as vRealize Operations and third-party tools, will also be described briefly Chapter 14, Troubleshooting Your Environment, covers the native tools used to chapter provides some examples and methods for troubleshooting approaches,the troubleshoot performance issues and other issues in a vSphere environment. Als Chapter 15, Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab, goes into the basics of why you should build your own lab environment, looking at what the benefits of running such a lab are in comparison with using VMware Hands-On Labs(HOls). Different approaches to how labs can be designed will be covered To get the most out of this book This book assumes a basic level of VMware vSphere and virtualization knowledge, which you will need in order to understand all the concepts This book requires the following minimum software components: VMware VSphere 6.7, and VMware vCenter Server 6. 7. There is also other optional software
Preface [ 3 ] Chapter 10, VM Resource Management, provides a comprehensive view of vSphere resources management, including reservations, limits, and shares, and how to balance and optimize them in your environment. Finally, we will discuss different migration techniques for moving your workload across different environments. Chapter 11, Availability and Disaster Recovery, focuses on specific availability (and resiliency) solutions in vSphere, including the new vSphere High Availability (HA) features, proactive HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT), and other solutions, such as guest clustering. Chapter 12, Securing and Protecting Your Environment, looks at how security has become a critical part of any implementation, including virtual environments. In addition to the security and hardening aspects of vSphere, the new 6.7 version brings other important related features (though some were introduced with version 6.5), such as VM encryption, encrypted vMotion, secure boot support for VMs, and secure boot plus cryptographic hypervisor assurance for ESXi. Chapter 13, Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment, covers the native tools used to monitor your environment for performance analysis or for possible issues in order to improve the virtual environment and workloads. This chapter focuses on monitoring different critical resources, such as computing, storage, and networking resources, across ESXi hosts, resource pools, and clusters. Other tools, such as vRealize Operations and third-party tools, will also be described briefly . Chapter 14, Troubleshooting Your Environment, covers the native tools used to troubleshoot performance issues and other issues in a vSphere environment. Also, the chapter provides some examples and methods for troubleshooting approaches. Chapter 15, Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab, goes into the basics of why you should build your own lab environment, looking at what the benefits of running such a lab are in comparison with using VMware Hands-On Labs (HOLs). Different approaches to how labs can be designed will be covered. To get the most out of this book This book assumes a basic level of VMware vSphere and virtualization knowledge, which you will need in order to understand all the concepts. This book requires the following minimum software components: VMware vSphere 6.7, and VMware vCenter Server 6.7. There is also other optional software. |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||