VMware vCenter Cookbook

About This Book

• Learn how to increase availability and scalability of your virtual environment
• Improve efficiency and optimize resource usage in your virtual infrastructure
• Explore new vCenter features and discover best ways to implement them using proactive examples

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system administrator who has some experience with virtualization and already uses VMware vCenter, but wishes to learn more, then this is the book for you. If you are looking for tips or shortcuts for common administration tasks as well as workarounds for pain points in vSphere administration, you'll find this guide useful.

What You Will Learn

• Manage your virtual environment faster and in a more efficient manner
• Easily implement and start using new vCenter features
• Scale an existing virtual environment quickly
• Optimize resource usage across virtual infrastructures
• Prioritize VMs with resource pools
• Perform simple and advanced administrative tasks using VMware
• Discover tips on task optimization that will let you have more time for important tasks

In Detail

VMware vCenter is a centralized management application server that lets you manage virtual machines and ESXi hosts centrally and optimizes resources efficiently. Day-to-day virtual environment administration for IT professionals will become much easier with the help of this book! Clear and helpful recipes and tips offered in this book will help administrators to increase their level of expertise and gain new skills in vSphere administration. You begin by learning useful tasks and features of vCenter such as accessing hosts via SSH and securing host management access. You will then learn ways to ensure 100 percent uptime for critical VMs, protect host redundancy and configure a backup retention policy, all while increasing environment availability. Following this, you will discover how to increase and improve environment scalability and optimize resource usage. Finally, you'll finish your journey by learning how to improve environment manageability using CLI, VM cloning, and many other methods.