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VMware vSphere Design Essentials

You're reading from VMware vSphere Design Essentials Unleash the performance, availability, and workload efficiency of your virtual data center using this fast-paced guide

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784390044

Length 176 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Puthiyavan Udayakumar

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

VMware vSphere Design Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Essentials of VMware vSphere FREE CHAPTER

2. Designing VMware ESXi Host, Cluster, and vCenter

3. Designing VMware vSphere Networking

4. Designing VMware vSphere Storage

5. Designing VMware vRealize

About VMware vSphere 6.0

New features of VMware vSphere 6.0

Index

Design essentials for migrating ESXi

Migrating VMware ESXi 4.x to the latest version requires careful planning. The migration procedure will be affected by several factors—the version of VMware vCenter Server, the latest version of VMware ESXi, the compatibility of available hardware, boot considerations, and the type and destination state of data stores. We need a clear migration path. The outline of the migration plan is illustrated in the following section, and you can customize it according to your demands:

Pre-migration

The following pre-migration tasks should be performed prior to installing VMware ESXi on the host:

Validate that all prerequisites are complete and verify that hardware requirements are met
Document the existing VMware ESX host configuration
Evacuate virtual machines and templates and put the host into Maintenance Mode
If running in a VMware HA/VMware DRS cluster, remove the host from the cluster

Migration

After the pre-migration tasks are complete, you are ready to upgrade...

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Authors (1)

Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Puthiyavan Udayakumar has more than 8 years of IT experience and has expertise in areas such as Citrix, VMware, Microsoft products, and Apache CloudStack. He has extensive experience in the field of designing and implementing virtualization solutions using various Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft products. He is an IBM Certified Solution Architect and a Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer and has more than 16 certifications in infrastructure products. He has authored Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal, Getting Started with Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0 and VMware vSphere Network Virtualization Recipe Book. He holds a master's degree in science with a specialization in system software from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He also has a bachelor's degree in engineering from SKR Engineering College, affiliated to Anna University, and has received a national award from the Indian Society for Technical Education. He has presented various research papers that follow the IEEE pattern at more than 15 national and international conferences, including IADIS (held in Dublin, Ireland).

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