VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers (2nd Edition)

Extensively updated and revised, this is the definitive real-world guide to planning, deploying, and managing VMware ESX Servers 3.5, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), or VMware vSphere 4.x cloud computing in mission-critical environments.

Drawing on his extensive experience consulting on enterprise VMware implementations, renowned expert Edward L. Haletky offers a "soup-to-nuts" collection of field-tested best practices and solutions. He illuminates the real benefits, issues, tradeoffs, and pitfalls associated with VMware's newest platforms, using real-world examples that draw upon both VMware and thirdy-party products.

This edition features detailed coverage of new vSphere features such as Storage IO Control, Network IO Control, Load-Based Teaming, Distributed Virtual Switches, ESXi, hardware and processors, and a significantly expanded discussion of auditing and monitoring. Heletky offers new or enhanced coverage of VM Hardware, virtual networking, VMsafe, and more.

All new coverage is thoroughly integrated into Haletky's insightful discussion of the entire lifecycle: planning, installation, templates, monitoring, tuning, clustering, security, disaster recovery, and more. Haletky consistently presents the most efficient procedures, whether they use graphical tools or the command line.

VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise has long been the definitive single-source guide to VMware planning, deployment, and management, For today's VMware architects, administrators, and managers, this edition will be even more valuable.

Edward L. Haletky is author of VMware vSphere™ and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment and the first edition of this book. He owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting and development, and The Virtualization Practice, where he serves as analyst. He moderates and hosts and Virtualization Security Podcast and is guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, where he answers challenging security and configuration questions.

Edward L. Haletky is the author of VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environmentas well as the first edition of this book, VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers. Edward owns AstroArch Consulting, Inc., providing virtualization, security, network consulting, and development, and The Virtualization Practice, where he is also an analyst. Edward is the moderator and host of the Virtualization Security Podcast, as well as a guru and moderator for the VMware Communities Forums, providing answers to security and configuration questions. Edward is working on new books on virtualization.