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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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Performing host customizations

vSphere Host Profiles help you publish configuration standards across clusters of ESXi hosts. However, every host will have a set of unique settings which needs to be customized as well. When you attach ESXi hosts to a Host Profile, you will be allowed to customize the hosts that are being added. However, if you are dealing with a large set of hosts, supplying the values through the Attach/Detach Host and Clusters wizard will be a laborious task. An alternative and efficient method would be to prepare a customizations (.csv) file with the host-specific values and use it to perform the host customization.

The following flow chart provides a high-level overview of the procedure:

Getting ready

You need to make sure that all the ESXi hosts that need to be customized are attached to the Host Profile you would be generating the customization file for. To learn how to attach hosts to a Host Profiles, read the recipe Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from Host Profile...