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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

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

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Enabling stateless caching

In continuation of the previous recipe, an administrator can control if the ESXi hosts boots from the auto deploy on every instance of reboot, or perform an installation through auto deploy and have subsequent reboots to load image from disks. The option to toggle between stateless and stateful is performed by amending the host profile setting. In this recipe, we shall walk through the steps to enable stateless caching.

How to do it...

Log in to vCenter Server.
Navigate to Home | Host Profiles.
Select the host profile and click on Edit host profile.

Expand Advanced Configuration Settings and navigate to System Image Cache Configuration as shown here:

Select on Enable stateless caching on the host or Enable stateless caching to a USB disk on the host.
Provide inputs for Arguments for first disk or leave at default: this is the order of preference of disk on which the host would be used for caching. By default, it will detect and overwrite an existing ESXi installation...