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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

Updating or patching ESXi hosts and vCSAs

Keeping ESXi hosts and vCenter Servers up-to-date is not only an essential best practice, but it's strongly recommended to ensure the correct functionality of the virtual platform and protection from bugs. Several ways are available to patch ESXi hosts using—VUM, (this will be discussed later in the chapter) to update all hosts automatically or, if no vCenter Servers are present in the network, using the command line. Also, the vCSA can be patched in different ways that will be analyzed later on.

Updating or patching ESXi hosts through the command line

Patches and updates for ESXi are combined in a bundle provided by VMware in a .zip format that includes some VIBs (ESXi software packages) containing fixes and updates. To proceed with the update, you need to obtain the latest available patches from the VMware website at the URL https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch. Patches and upgrades are cumulative and the patch bundle is provided including all...