Design a virtualized data center with VMware v Sphere 6.7
Key Features
- Get the first book on the market that helps you design a virtualized data center with VMware v Sphere 6.7
- Learn how to create professional v Sphere design documentation to ensure a successful implementation
- A practical guide that will help you apply infrastructure design principles to v Sphere design
Book Description
VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The v Sphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads.
This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware v Sphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on v Sphere 6.0. v Sphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, v Center HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted v Motion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more.
By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.
What you will learn
- Identify key factors related to a v Sphere design
- Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a v Sphere design
- Create a v Sphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
- Design for performance, availability, recoverability, manageability, and security
- Map the logical resource design into the physical v Sphere design
- Create professional v Sphere design documentation
Who this book is for
If you are an administrator or consultant interested in designing virtualized data center environments using VMware v Sphere 6.x (or previous versions of v Sphere and the supporting components), this book is for you.