Vsphere Design Best Practices - Softcover

Bolander, Brian Bo; Kusek, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782176268 ISBN 13: 9781782176268

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Apply industryaccepted best practices to design reliable highperformance datacenters for your business needs

About This Book

• Learn how to utilize the robust features of VMware to design, architect, and operate a virtual infrastructure using the VMware vSphere platform
• Customize your vSphere Infrastructure to fit your business needs with specific use-cases for live production environments
• Explore the vast opportunities available to fully leverage your virtualization infrastructure

Who This Book Is For

If you wish to learn about vSphere best practices and how to apply them when designing virtual, high performance, and reliable datacenters that support business critical applications to work more efficiently and to prepare for official certifications, then this is the book for you. Readers should possess a good working knowledge of vSphere as well as servers, storage, and networking.

What You Will Learn

• Examine virtual datacenter design scenarios and understand the basics of vSphere clustering, HA, and DRS
• Compare and contrast scale-out versus scale-up designs
• Learn to map the storage Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to business requirements
• Get to know how to design flexible and reliable networks for virtual datacenters
• Inspect existing VMs and design principles to correctly resource and configure virtual machines
• Design different RPO and RTO requirements to plan and test the DR strategy

In Detail

vSphere allows you to transform your IT infrastructure into a private cloud, then bridge it to public clouds on-demand, delivering an IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service. vSphere delivers uncompromised control over all IT resources with the highest efficiency and choice in the industry.

The book begins with a definition of the core technologies in a virtual datacenter, vCenter, and ESXi. It then covers the architecture of specific virtual datacenter components. Readers will learn design principles related to storage and storage protocols. Moving on to networking, readers will learn to design flexible and reliable networks for their virtual datacenters. After this, Virtual Machine design considerations are reviewed in depth and readers are guided through inspecting existing VMs and design principles for correctly resourced and configured virtual machines.

About this title

About the Author

Brian Bolander
Brian Bolander spent 13 years on active duty in the United States Air Force. A veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, he was honorably discharged in 2005. He immediately returned to Afghanistan and worked on datacenter operations for the US Department of Defense (DoD) at various locations in southwest Asia. Invited to join a select team of internal consultants and troubleshooters responsible for operations in five countries, he was also the project manager for what was then the largest datacenter built in Afghanistan.
Selected as a vExpert in 2014, he is currently supporting Operation Enduring Freedom as a senior virtualization and storage engineer.
He loves his family, friends, and rescue mutts. He digs science, technology, and geek gear. He's an audiophile, a horologist, an avid collector, a woodworker, an amateur photographer, and a virtualization nerd.

Christopher Kusek
He has over 20 years' experience in the industry, with virtualization experience running back to the pre-1.0 days of VMware. He has shared his expertise with many far and wide through conferences, presentations, #CXIParty, and sponsoring or presenting at community events and outings whether it is focused on storage, VMworld, or cloud.
He is a frequent contributor to VMware Communities' Podcasts and vBrownbag, and has been an active blogger for over a decade.
A proud vExpert, he was named an EMC Elect in 2013, 2014, and continues to contribute to the storage community, whether directly or indirectly, with analysis and regular review.
He continues to update his blog with useful stories of virtualization and storage and his adventures throughout the world, which currently include stories of his times in Afghanistan. You can read his blog at pkguild.com or more likely catch him on Twitter; his twitter handle is @cxi.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1782176268
• ISBN 13: 9781782176268
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 126