VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, Rough Cuts, 2nd Edition

Description

• Copyright 2011
• Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
• Pages: 576
• Edition: 2nd

• Rough Cuts
• ISBN-10: 0-13-705925-6
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-705925-6

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

Edward L. Haletky’s Complete, Solutions-Focused Guide to Running ESX Server 3.5, vSphere, and VMware 4.x

Extensively updated and revised, this is the definitive real-world guide to planning, deploying, and managing VMware ESX Server 3.5, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), or VMware vSphere 4.x cloud computing in mission-critical environments.

Drawing on his extensive experience consulting on enterprise VMware implementations, renowned expert Edward L.
Haletky offers a “soup-to-nuts” collection of field-tested best practices and solutions. He illuminates the real benefits, issues, tradeoffs, and pitfalls associated with VMware’s newest platforms, using real-world examples that draw upon both VMware and third-party products.

This edition features detailed coverage of new vSphere features such as Storage IO Control, Network IO Control, Load-Based Teaming, Distributed Virtual Switches, ESXi, hardware and processors, and a significantly expanded discussion of auditing and monitoring. Haletky offers new or enhanced coverage of VM Hardware, virtual networking, VMsafe, and more.

All new coverage is thoroughly integrated into Haletky’s insightful discussion of the entire lifecycle: planning, installation, templates, monitoring, tuning, clustering, security, disaster recovery, and more. Haletky consistently presents the most efficient procedures, whether they use graphical tools or the command line.

You’ll learn how to:

•    Assess VMware datacenter and infrastructure hardware requirements

•    Understand technical, licensing, and management differences between ESX/ESXi 3.5 and 4.x

•    Plan installation for your environment and identify potential “gotchas”

•    Select, configure, utilize, and support storage cost-effectively

•    Manage key operational issues associated with virtual infrastructure

•    Adapt existing network and security infrastructure to virtualization

•    Configure ESX from host connections

•    Configure ESX Server from Virtual Centers or hosts

•    Create, modify, and manage VMs (with detailed Windows, Linux, and NetWare examples)

•    Troubleshoot VM issues with eDirectory, private labs, firewalls, and clusters

•    Utilize vSphere 4.1’s improved Dynamic Resource Load Balancing (DRLB)

•    Implement disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup

•    Plan for vApps and the future of virtualization

VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise has long been the definitive single-source guide to VMware planning, deployment, and management. For today’s VMware architects, administrators, and managers, this edition will be even more valuable.

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1  SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS     1

Basic Hardware Considerations     2

  Feature Considerations     3

  Processor Considerations     6

  Cache Considerations     8

  Memory Considerations    11

  I/O Card Considerations     13

  10Gb Ethernet     16

  Converged Network Adapters     16

  Disk Drive Space Considerations     16

  Basic Hardware Considerations Summary    17

Specific Hardware Considerations     19

Blade Server Systems     19

  1U Server Systems     20

  2U Server Systems     21

  Large Server-Class Systems     22

  The Effects of External Storage     23

Examples     27

  Example 1: Using Motherboard X and ESXi Will Not Install     27

  Example 2: Installing ESX and Expecting a Graphical Console     27

  Example 3: Existing Datacenter     28

  Example 4: Office in a Box     29

  Example 5: The Latest and Greatest     30

  Example 6: The SAN     31

  Example 7: Secure Environment     32

  Example 8: Disaster Recovery     33

Hardware Checklist     34

Conclusion     35

CHAPTER 2  VERSION COMPARISON     37

VMware ESX/ESXi Architecture Overview    38

vmkernel Differences     40

  ESX Boot Differences     44

  Tool Differences     51

Virtual Networking     52

  vNetwork Distributed Switch     53

  Third-Party Virtual Switches     53

  Fault Tolerance (FT) Logging     54

  iSCSI Participation     54

  IPv6 Support     54

  VMsafe-Net     54

  Summary     54

Storage     56

  Grow a VMFS Volume     57

  Storage IO Control (SIOC)     57

  Multipath Plug-in (MPP)     57

  iSCSI and NFS Improvements     57

  FCoE     58

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