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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

VUM

VUM service is a tool available in vSphere 6.5 that allows you to easily manage patches and updates for VM, hosts, and vApps installed in the virtual environment. As compared to previous versions, VUM no longer requires the installation of an additional external Windows server because in vSphere 6.5, the Update Manager server and client components are now part of the vCSA.

VUM is installed during the vCSA installation procedure and it's enabled by default. VUM uses a PostgreSQL database that is bundled with the appliance to store its data. Although both vCenter Server and VUM share the same PostgreSQL database, they use a different database instance.

Note

In vSphere 6.5, a Windows based Update Manager 6.5 instance cannot be connected to a vCSA 6.5 during the installation procedure because it will fail with an error.

If the Update Manager doesn't have access to the internet, you can install the optional module Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) to download virtual appliance upgrades,...