VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition - Softcover

Cartwright, Hersey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785283464 ISBN 13: 9781785283468

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Over 75 practical recipes to confidently design an efficient virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.x

Key Features

• Get the first book on the market that helps you design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6
• Achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center
• Exciting and practical recipes help you to design a virtual data easily by leveraging the features of VMware vSphere 6

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. With the release of 6.x a whole range of new features has come along such as ESXi Security enhancements, fault tolerance, high availability enhancements, and virtual volumes, thus simplifying the secure management of resources, the availability of applications, and performance enhancements of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenter.

This book provides recipes to create a virtual datacenter design using the features of vSphere 6.x by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process. You'll follow steps that walk you through the design process from beginning to end, right from the discovery process to creating the conceptual design; calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design; mapping the logical requirements to a physical design; security design; and finally creating the design documentation.

The recipes in this book provide guidance on making design decisions to ensure the successful creation, and ultimately the successful implementation, of a VMware vSphere 6.x virtual data center design.

What you will learn

• Identify key factors related to a vSphere design and apply them to every step of the design process
• Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design.
• Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
• Determine the type of database to use based on the deployment size.
• Design for performance, availability, recoverability, manageability, and security
• Map the logical resource design into the physical vSphere design
• Create professional vSphere design documentation to ensure a successful implementation of the vSphere design
• Leverage the latest vSphere 6.x features to ensure manageability, performance, availability, and security in a virtual datacenter design

About this title

About the Author

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from helpdesk support to IT management. He began working with VMware technologies in 2006. He was the key sponsor of the virtualization initiative at ABNB Federal Credit Union and played a key role in the design, implementation, and management of virtual infrastructure of the ABNB.

In his current role as the Senior Virtualization Engineer at ABS Technology Architects, he is responsible for the design and implementation of VMware environments that support a wide range of business applications. He does most of his work with small and medium-sized environments with 3 to 10 hosts, but he has also been involved with several large, multisite deployments. He has experience of working with a wide variety of server and storage platforms.

Since January 2011, he has been an instructor with the VMware IT Academy program at the Tidewater Community College, where he teaches the VMware Install, Configure, and Manage vSphere 5 and the Optimize and Scale vSphere 5 courses. He has designed and implemented the lab environment used by the students in the virtualization and security programs offered at the Chesapeake Campus of Tidewater Community College. He enjoys teaching and learns a lot by teaching others about the benefits of virtualization.

Along with VMware certifications, he also holds certifications from Citrix for XenApp and XenDesktop and the Information Storage Associate (EMCISA) certification from EMC. He actively participates in the VMware community and has been awarded the vExpert title in both 2012 and 2013. He has presented multiple articles at professionalvmware.com on vBrownBags on vSphere administration, vSphere design, and vSphere disaster recovery.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785283464
• ISBN 13: 9781785283468
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 324