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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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Preparing an ESXi Image Builder CLI environment

To be able to use Image Builder CLI, you are required to install VMware PowerCLI 6.5 or later. The Image Builder snap-in is built into PowerCLI.

Getting ready

The machine you choose to install VMware PowerCLI 6.5 on, requires Microsoft PowerShell 3.0 or later pre-installed. It is recommended that you install Windows Management Framework 3.0 or later, to meet this requirement.

How to do it...

The following procedure will guide you through the process of installing PowerCLI and configuring it for first use:

Go to VMware's download portal at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.
At the downloads page, using the search field to look up VMware PowerCLI and download VMware PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1 (at the time of reading, you might find a newer version. Install the most recent version to proceed).
Run the VMware-PowerCLI-6.5.0 installer as an administrator and progress through the wizard screens with the default options and click Finish. The installation...