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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 comes with a GUI installer that can run from different platforms (Windows, Linux, or macOS). The installer by itself has software and hardware requirements that need to be met for optimal performance during installation:

Operating system	CPU	Memory	Storage
macOS Mavericks/Yosemite/El Capitan	4 cores or vCPUs at 2.4 GHz	8 GB	150 GB
Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10	4 cores or vCPUs at 2.3 GHz	4 GB	32 GB
SUSE 12 (64-bit) or Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit)	2 cores or vCPUs at 2.3 GHz	4 GB	16 GB

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the steps involved in deploying VCSA 6.5 with an embedded PSC:

Map and browse the contents of the VCSA ISO ROM, navigate to vcsa-ui-installer, and choose a subdirectory corresponding to your operating system (lin64, mac, win32). In this case, we will navigate to the win32 directory and run the executable installer.exe as an administrator to bring up the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 Installer window: