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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

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Abhilash G B is a virtualization specialist, author, and a VMware vExpert (2014-2019). His primary focus is in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the beginning of 2007. He holds several VMware certifications, including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-NV. He is also the author of six other publications.
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Mathias Meyenburg has been the managing director of vleet GmbH since January 1, 2019. He has more than 15 years' experience in the IT industry. Starting as a system administrator, his career has progressed to operating and administering large-scale international data centers. He has constantly updated and expanded his know-how and acquired advanced certifications, such as CCNA, MCP, and VCP. vleet GmbH sought him out in 2016 as a solution architect for the whole VMware SDDC stack, Horizon desktop virtualization, Horizon Cloud on Azure, and VMC on AWS.
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Cedric Rajendran is a senior staff engineer in technical support with VMware. He has around 13 years of experience covering a wide spectrum of technologies. He holds a master's degree specializing in International Business. He has served in the fields of Network Ops, Technical Support, and Consulting. His core strengths are on the server and storage virtualization. He has authored a book on VMware Virtual SAN, holds advanced certifications with VMware, and is also a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect.
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1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER 2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5 3. Using vSphere Host Profiles 4. Using ESXi Image Builder 5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy 6. Using vSphere Standard Switches 7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches 8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore 9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage 10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage 11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability 13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC 14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager 15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility 16. Using vSphere Management Assistant 17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating NFSv4.1 datastores with Kerberos authentication

VMware introduced support for NFS 4.1 with vSphere 6.0. vSphere 6.5 added several enhancements:

  • It now supports AES encryption
  • Support for IPv6
  • Support Kerberos integrity checking mechanism

In this recipe, we will learn how to create NFS 4.1 datastores. Although the procedure is similar to NFSv3, there are a few additional steps that needs to be performed.

Getting ready

The following setup is required for Creating NFSv4.1 datastores with Kerberos authentication:

  • For Kerberos authentication to work, you need to make sure that the ESXi hosts and the NFS server are joined to the Active Directory domain
  • Create a new or select an existing AD user for NFS Kerberos authentication
  • Configure the NFS server/share to allow access to the AD user chosen for NFS Kerberos authentication

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you mount an NFS datastore using the NFSv4.1 client with Kerberos authentication enabled:

  1. Log in to the vCenter Server using...
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Abhilash G B
Abhilash G B is a virtualization specialist, author, and a VMware vExpert (2014-2019). His primary focus is in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the beginning of 2007. He holds several VMware certifications, including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-NV. He is also the author of six other publications.
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Mathias Meyenburg has been the managing director of vleet GmbH since January 1, 2019. He has more than 15 years' experience in the IT industry. Starting as a system administrator, his career has progressed to operating and administering large-scale international data centers. He has constantly updated and expanded his know-how and acquired advanced certifications, such as CCNA, MCP, and VCP. vleet GmbH sought him out in 2016 as a solution architect for the whole VMware SDDC stack, Horizon desktop virtualization, Horizon Cloud on Azure, and VMC on AWS.
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Cedric Rajendran is a senior staff engineer in technical support with VMware. He has around 13 years of experience covering a wide spectrum of technologies. He holds a master's degree specializing in International Business. He has served in the fields of Network Ops, Technical Support, and Consulting. His core strengths are on the server and storage virtualization. He has authored a book on VMware Virtual SAN, holds advanced certifications with VMware, and is also a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect.
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