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You're reading from Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286016

Length 598 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Networking

Authors (3):

Andrea Mauro

Paolo Valsecchi

Karel Novak

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite FREE CHAPTER

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

Introduction to HCI and vSAN

HCI are specific solutions that combine computing and storage (and sometimes also networking) capabilities from more hosts, to have a shared pool of resources. A vSphere cluster already does this for the computing part. Some storage products extend this to the storage part, making more external storage unnecessary, and making the HCI market a relevant trend; it is not only growing fast, with more attention from the big storage vendors, but it is also changing fast.

Some HCI products compatible with vSphere 6.5:

Nutanix: This is the pioneer of HCI, actually it is the only solution that can work with all the hypervisor technologies (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM with the custom AHV, Citrix Xen Server).
HPE SimpliVity: In January 2017, HPE acquired Simplivity to bring HCI into its portfolio. Available since April, the HPE SimpliVity 380 (based on HPE ProLiant DL380) is the first HCI product after this acquisition. It offers a full suite of traditional IT functions...