VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition

Design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6.7

Key Features

• Design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6.7
• Create professional vSphere design documentation to ensure a successful implementation
• Understand and apply infrastructure design principles to vSphere design

Book Description

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads.

Complete with short recipes focused on each design aspect, this book will help you get to grips with proven infrastructure design principles and how to apply them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design. This third edition of the VMware cookbook is updated with the new features introduced in VMware 6.7, covering recipes for upgrading to 6.7, using vCenter HA, and operational improvements. You’ll also work with high-performance storage access, such as RDMA and Persistent memory (Pmem), and security features, such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption. Furthermore, the book covers recipes on Proactive HA, HA Orchestrated Restart, Predictive DRS, and much more.

By the end of the book, you’ll have the skills necessary to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center with vSphere design.

What you will learn

• Identify key factors in vSphere design
• Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design
• Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
• Design for performance, availability, recoverability, manageability, and security
• Map the logical resource design into the physical vSphere design
• Create professional vSphere design documentation

Who this book is for

If you are an administrator or consultant interested in designing virtualized data center environments using VMware vSphere 6.x (or previous versions of vSphere), this book is for you.

Table of Contents

1. The Virtual Datacenter
2. The Discovery Process
3. The Design Factors
4. vSphere Management Design
5. vSphere Storage Design
6. vSphere Network Design
7. vSphere Compute Design
8. The vSphere Physical Design
9. Virtual Machine Design
10. vSphere Security Design
11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
12. Design Documentation