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VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials

You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials Efficiently virtualize your IT infrastructure with vSphere

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784398750

Length 228 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Kumar

Stankowic

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

VMware vSphere Essentials

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Introduction to VMware vSphere FREE CHAPTER

2. VMware vCenter Server

3. Creating Virtual Machines

4. Managing Virtual Network

5. Network Virtualization with VMware NSX

6. Managing Virtual Storage

7. Working with VSAN

8. Managing Virtual Machines

9. Resource Management and Performance Monitoring

10. Incorporating vSphere High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and DRS

11. Securing and Updating vSphere

12. vSphere 6.0 Overview

Index

Configuring and managing vCenter Server

If the user wants to configure the appliance for the first time, he/she must first accept the EULA when using vSphere 5.x. Then, the vCenter Server Appliance is chosen and configured with the default settings. Once the settings have been saved, the appliance can be started.

Following are the steps that must be followed in order to configure the vCenter Server Appliance:

Accept the End-User License Agreement (EULA)
Select Configure with Default Settings
Define the database settings; select the integrated vPostgres database or apply valid connection settings for an external Oracle Database instance. Note that the integrated database is not supported for large environments in vSphere 5.5.
Configure SSO to deploy an embedded server or use a pre-existing SSO installation.
Enable Active Directory integration if applicable to your infrastructure; enter a valid domain, a username, and password, eligible to register systems.
Review and acknowledge the configuration...

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Authors (2)

Kumar

Kumar

Kunal Kumar is an author, researcher, digital forensics expert, and a cyber crime investigator. He has a keen interest in virtualization, information security, cyber forensics, application development, and reverse engineering. Since 2008, he has been working on various projects that deal with invention and/or structuring of security models starting from small workshops to working with Corporations, NGOs and Government agencies. He has completed his MCA, which was preceded by an MS degree in Cyber law and security and is now looking at a PhD in cloud security. He has worked with many leading ITas a Technical advisor for Dell, as a Cloud Operations Specialist for Orange Business Services, as a Technical specialist for HCL, and as a project manager in British Telecom (BT). He has acquired some international certifications namely Certified Ethical Hacker, Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator, VMware certified Professional, and CCNA, among others. He has trained more than 1,500 students on various technologies across the Indian subcontinent. He is also the founder and acting president of the non-profit cyber welfare organization Ethical Hackers League and is rigorously involved in various social welfare causes. Currently, he heads and runs SomethingCool (http://somethingcool.in), where along with his team, he works on new products with just innovation as the key element. He can be reached at http://kunalkumar.in

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Stankowic

Stankowic

Christian Stankowic has been working as a certified IT engineer for five years. His interest in Linux and virtualization technology picked up in 2006, when he gained his first experience with openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, CRUX Linux, and VMware Server. Since his apprenticeship as an IT specialist for system integration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Red Hat Satellite/Spacewalk, Nagios/Icinga, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server became his key qualifications. Recent VMware technologies such as vSphere and the vCenter family are part of his daily work as a virtual infrastructure administrator. He loves to share knowledge. Besides acting as trainer in the company he is working for, he also started writing books to contribute more. He was the coauthor of the book VMware vSphere Essentials, Packt Publishing. In his free time, he works on his personal IT blog and develops web applications using recent techniques such as jQuery and PHP. You can check his blog about various IT topics at http://www.stankowic-development.net.

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