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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

New security options in vSphere 6.5

VMware vSphere 6.5 has several improvements for the security aspects; a new vCenter linked mode, VM encryption, VM Secure Boot, and enhanced logging. And of course, several improvements and bug fixes.

For more details, see also https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/10/whats-new-in-vsphere-6-5-security.html.

VMware vCenter federations

You can join multiple vCenter Server systems using vCenter Linked Mode (introduced in vSphere 4.0) to build a single pane of glass and share information between vCenter instances, such as views, and manage the inventories of all the vCenter Server systems that are linked. With vSphere 6.0, a new vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode (ELM) was introduced to replace the existing Linked Mode capability that was based on Microsoft ADAM technology. In this way, it was finally possible to have Linked Mode capability for both Windows-based vCenter Server as well as the vCSA, with new features and functions, such as the cross-vCenter vMotion...