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封面
版权页
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Why subscribe?
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Server Virtualization Using VMware
The magic of server virtualization
What is a hypervisor?
What is a virtual machine?
An introduction to VMware vSphere
Summary
Chapter 2. The Hypervisor – ESXi
The architecture of ESXi
Laying the groundwork for ESXi deployment
Installing ESXi – the interactive method
Using the vSphere Client
Creating additional local users on an ESXi host
Using the ESXi Managed Object Browser
Understanding other ESXi deployment methods
Chapter 3. The Management Layer – VMware vCenter
VMware vCenter Server concepts
Laying the foundation for a vCenter deployment
Installing vCenter on a Windows platform
Deploying the appliance-based vCenter and its components
Configuring the identity sources on the SSO server
Configuring licenses for the vSphere environment
Adding an ESXi host to the vCenter
Enhanced Linked Mode
Chapter 4. vSphere Networking Concepts and Management
The need for a software virtual switch
The difference between a physical and virtual switch
Physical NIC enumeration
A virtual machine network interface (vNIC)
The VMkernel network interface (vmk)
The VMware OUI MAC addresses
The standard virtual switch (vSwitch)
vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch (VDS)
Advanced network configuration
Networking monitoring methods on a VDS
Bandwidth management using Network I/O Control (NetIOC)
Chapter 5. vSphere Storage Concepts and Management
Local versus remote storage
Storage Protocols
Understanding RAID groups
Logical Unit Number (LUN)
Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
Storage Array types
Configuring access to Fiber channel storage
Configuring access to iSCSI storage
Configuring access to NFS storage
Datastore management
Managing VMFS snapshots
Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
Storage DRS
Chapter 6. Advanced vSphere Infrastructure Management
Introducing vSphere vMotion
Clustering ESXi hosts for compute aggregation and power management
Clustering ESXi hosts for high availability
Chapter 7. Understanding Host Profiles Image Profiles and Auto Deploy
Host profiles
Image profiles
Auto Deploy
Chapter 8. Virtual Machines Concepts and Management
Virtual machine components
New vSphere 6 virtual machine features
Creating a virtual machine
Virtual machine settings
Fault Tolerance
Chapter 9. Monitoring Performance of a vSphere Environment
Understanding CPU performance
Understanding memory performance
Understanding network performance
Understanding storage performance
Understanding resource controls
Monitoring performance
Chapter 10. Certificate Management for a vSphere Environment
SSL certificate concepts
How VMware products use SSL certificates
Using the vSphere Certificate Manager Utility
Installing the default root certificate
Managing ESXi SSL certificates
Viewing certificates using the vSphere Web Client
