VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: GB, Abhilash
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:Upgrading to vSphere 5.1; Introduction; Carrying out pre-upgrade checks before performing a vCenter upgrade; Performing an in-place upgrade of vCenter Server; Creating a table space for SSO on a SQL instance; Creating DB users for the SSO database; Upgrading a 32-bit vCenter Server to vCenter 5.1; Upgrading to ESXi 5.1; Installing vSphere Web Client; Upgrading VMware Tools; Upgrading the virtual machine hardware; Chapter 2:Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1. IntroductionInstalling vCenter 5.1; Deploying a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA); Preparing vCenter Server Appliance for first use; Installing the vCenter Server Appliance update; Upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance; Installing ESXi 5.1; Performing a scripted install of the ESXi server; Chapter 3:vSphere Auto Deploy; Introduction; Installing Auto Deploy server; Configuring a TFTP server with Auto Deploy files; Configuring the DHCP server for PXE boot; Testing the PXE boot configuration; Preparing VMware PowerCLI for first use; Downloading an ESXi Offline Bundle. Adding the Offline Bundle to the Auto Deploy serverChoosing an ESXi Image to deploy; Creating a Host Profile; Creating a deploy rule; Activating a deploy rule; Testing Auto Deploy; Enabling Stateless Caching; Performing an Auto Deploy stateful install; Chapter 4:ESXi Image Builder; Introduction; Creating an Image Profile by cloning an existing one; Removing an Image Profile; Adding a VIB (software package) to an Image Profile; Exporting an Image Profile as an ISO or Offline Bundle; Creating an Image Profile from scratch; Applying an Image Profile to the host. Chapter 5:Creating and Managing VMFS DatastoresIntroduction; Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host; Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi host; Viewing the multipathing information of a LUN; Creating a VMFS datastore; Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore; Extending a VMFS datastore; Unmounting a VMFS datastore; Mounting a VMFS datastore; Deleting a VMFS datastore; Upgrading VMFS-3 to VMFS-5; Mounting VMFS on a snapshot LUN; Resignaturing VMFS on a snapshot LUN; Masking paths to a LUN; Unmasking paths to a LUN; Creating a datastore cluster; Enabling Storage DRS. Chapter 6:Managing iSCSI and NFS StorageIntroduction; Adding the software iSCSI adapter; Creating a new VMkernel interface for iSCSI or NFS; Preparing the vSphere network for iSCSI multipathing; Binding VMkernel interfaces to the software iSCSI adapter; Adding an iSCSI target server to the software iSCSI adapter; Creating an NFS datastore; Chapter 7:Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control; Introduction; Adding a storage provider; Creating user-defined storage capabilities; Mapping user-defined storage capabilities to datastores; Creating a VM storage profile and enabling it.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.43; COMPUTERS -- Networking -- General; Virtual computer systems; Virtual computer systems; Sistemes virtuals (Informàtica); VMware -- Sphere; COMPUTERS -- General; Virtual computer systems; Virtual computer systems; Llibres electrònics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781299735071; 9781849684033; 1849684030; 1849684022; 9781849684026
• Related ISBNs: 129973507X; 9781849684026
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