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VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook

You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Over 75 practical recipes to confidently design an efficient virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785283468

Length 324 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

kim bottu

Hersey Cartwright

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. The Virtual Datacenter FREE CHAPTER

2. The Discovery Process

3. The Design Factors

4. vSphere Management Design

5. vSphere Storage Design

6. vSphere Network Design

7. vSphere Compute Design

8. vSphere Physical Design

9. Virtual Machine Design

10. vSphere Security Design

11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

12. Design Documentation

Index

IPv6 in a vSphere Design

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) was developed to replace IP version 4 (IPv4). IPv6 addresses are 128-bit IP addresses compared to the 32-bit addresses in IPv4. IPv6 is becoming more common in datacenter network environments, and vSphere has included support for IPv6 since vSphere 5.x.

How to do it…

Enable IPv6 on the ESXi host.
Determine the vSphere features and services with IPv6 support.
Configure VMkernel interfaces to use IPv6.

How it works…

By default, IPv6 support is enabled on ESXi hosts. If the IPv6 support is changed, disabled, or enabled, a host reboot is required. Enabling or disabling IPv6 is done on each ESXi host by editing Advanced Network Settings from the Networking management tab for the host, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once enabled, IPv6 can be configured for supported vSphere features and services. The following vSphere features and services support IPv6:

ESXi and vCenter Management
vMotion and vSphere DRS
Fault tolerance
vSphere HA
NFS v3 storage...

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Authors (2)

kim bottu

kim bottu

Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.

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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.

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