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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 vSphere ESXi 6.5

The very first component that you will install in a fully virtualized VMware environment is the ESXi hypervisor. Although there are different methods of deploying ESXi 6.5, which include the use of auto deploy or an installation script, we will review how ESXi can be deployed using the interactive installer.

Getting ready

The installation of ESXi 6.5 is pretty straightforward. It is recommended that you refer to the VMware Compatibility Guide web page to verify whether the server hardware is compatible with ESXi 6.5; this is available at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php. Once you have made sure that the server hardware is compatible, the next step is to make sure that the server meets the hardware capacity requirements:

The host should have at least two 64-bit x86 CPU cores
AMD No Execute (NX) and Intel Execute Disable (XD) processor functions are to be enabled in the server BIOS
To be able to run 64-bit operating systems on virtual machines...