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- Engelska
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- 2011-10-20
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- 2 Rev ed
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- SYBEX
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Scott Lowe, VCDX, has been in IT for more than 17 years and is a VMware vExpert, an honor granted by VMware to individuals whose work in the VMware community has made a significant impact. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer for the vSpecialist team at EMC Corporation, where he specializes in the integration of VMware, Cisco, and EMC solutions, products, and technologies. Scott is the author of Mastering VMware vSphere 4 and coauthor of VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant Reference and VMware vSphere Design. He is also a former contributor to SearchVMware.com and SearchServerVirtualization.com, and a former columnist for Virtualization Review magazine. Scott's top-rated VMware/virtualization blog is blog.scottlowe.org.
Innehållsförteckning
Introductionxxi
Chapter 1Introducing VMware vSphere 51
Exploring VMware vSphere 5 1
Examining the Products in the vSphere Suite 3
Examining the Features in VMware vSphere 8
Why Choose vSphere? 20
The Bottom Line 22
Chapter 2Planning and Installing VMware ESXi 23
Planning a VMware vSphere Deployment 23
Selecting ESXi Installable or ESXi Embedded 24
Choosing a Server Platform 25
Determining a Storage Architecture 26
Integrating with the Network Infrastructure 27
Deploying VMware ESXi 29
Installing VMware ESXi Interactively 29
Performing an Unattended Installation of VMware ESXi 35
Deploying VMware ESXi with vSphere Auto Deploy 40
Deploying VMware ESXi Embedded 46
Performing Post-installation Confi guration 47
Installing the vSphere Client 47
Reconfi guring the Management Network 50
Confi guring Time Synchronization 52
The Bottom Line 53
Chapter 3Installing and Confi guring vCenter Server55
Introducing vCenter Server 55
Centralizing User Authentication Using vCenter Server 57
Providing an Extensible Framework 59
Choosing the Version of vCenter Server 60
Planning and Designing a vCenter Server Deployment 61
Sizing Hardware for vCenter Server 62
Choosing a Database Server for vCenter Server 63
Planning for vCenter Server Availability 65
Running vCenter Server in a VM 67
Installing vCenter Server 68
Confi guring the vCenter Server Backend Database Server 69
Running the vCenter Server Installer 75
Installing vCenter Server in a Linked Mode Group 80
Deploying the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance 84
Accepting the End-User License Agreement 87
Confi guring the Database 88
Starting the vCenter Server Services 88
Exploring vCenter Server 88
Whats in the vCenter Server Home Screen? 89
Using the Navigation Bar 90
Creating and Managing a vCenter Server Inventory 90
Understanding Inventory Views and Objects 91
Creating and Adding Inventory Objects 93
Exploring vCenter Server's Management Features 97
Understanding Basic Host Management 97
Examining Basic Host Confi guration 99
Using Scheduled Tasks 101
Using Events View in vCenter Server 103
Using vCenter Server's Maps 104
Working with Host Profiles 106
Managing vCenter Server Settings 108
Custom Attributes 109
vCenter Server Settings 111
Roles 116
Sessions 116
Edit Message of the Day 116
Export System Logs 116
The Bottom Line 118
Chapter 4Installing and Confi guring vSphere Update Manager121
Overview of vSphere Update Manager 121
Installing vSphere Update Manager 123
Defi ning the Requirements 124
Confi guring VUMs Database 125
Creating the Open Database Connectivity Data Source Name 128
Installing VUM 129
Installing the Update Manager Download Service (Optional) 132
Installing the vSphere Update Manager Plug-in 133
Reconfi guring the VUM or UMDS Installation with the Update Manager Utility 134
Upgrading VUM from a Previous Version 1...