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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

vCSA configuration

When the deployment of the vCSA is complete, as part of the installation, vSphere Web Client and the new HTML5 client are available to access the appliance. Both clients rely on the Tomcat web service to access the appliance, and no third-party software is required. As explained in Chapter 4, Deployment Workflow and Component Installation, in vSphere 6.5, the login to the appliance can be done using both flash-based and HTML5-based web clients.

In your favorite browser, type the following addresses:

Flash-based client (vSphere Web Client): https://<VCSA_IP>/vsphere-client
HTML5 client (vSphere Client): https://< VCSA _IP>/ui

Basic setup using vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI)

Let’s walk-through the basic configuration you should do on your vCenter Server instance to ensure the correct functionality. The configuration of the vCSA can be easily managed using the VAMI that allows you to export logs, configure NTP, enable/disable SSH, and so on....