Before you begin, you will need storage capabilities; either user-defined using vCenter tags, or learned via a VASA provider. Also, most importantly, using storage profiles requires the vSphere Enterprise Plus license.
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure
- Installing ESXi – the interactive method
- Configuring the ESXi Management Network
- Scripted deployment of ESXi
- Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)
- Deploying vCenters in a Linked Mode configuration
- Configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) identity sources
- Configuring vCenter Roles and Permissions
- Joining ESXi to an Active Directory domain
- Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere
- Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches
- Creating vSphere Standard Switches
- Creating Virtual Machine Port Groups on vSphere Standard Switches
- Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on vSphere Standard Switches
- Creating additional VMkernel TCP/IP stacks
- Managing the Physical Uplinks of a vSphere Standard Switch
- Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming and Failover
- Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches
- Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS)
- Connecting ESXi hosts to a vDS
- Creating Distributed Port Groups (dvPortGroup)
- Configuring Security, Traffic Shaping, Teaming, and Failover
- Configuring VLANs on vDS
- Configuring Private VLANs on a vDS
- Configuring a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) on a vDS
- Configuring user-defined network pools—NIOC
- Migrating Virtual Machine Network from vSS to vDS
- Migrating VMkernel interfaces from vSS to vDS
- Configuring port mirroring on vDS
- Configuring NetFlow on vDS
- Upgrading a vDS
- Backing up and restoring a vDS
- Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment
- Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
- SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage
- Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
- Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment
- Enabling vSphere High Availability
- Configuring vCenter Admission Control
- Configuring Heartbeat Datastores
- Overriding Restart Priority for Virtual Machines
- Creating VM to VM Dependency Rules
- Disabling Host Monitoring
- Enabling Virtual Machine Monitoring
- Enabling Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP)
- Configuring vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
- Configuring vCenter Native High Availability (VCHA)
- Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles
- Creating Host Profiles
- Associating Host Profiles with ESXi hosts or clusters
- Checking Host Profile Compliance
- Scheduling Host Profile Compliance Checks
- Performing Host Customizations
- Remediating non-compliant Hosts
- Using Host Profiles to push a configuration change
- Copying settings between Host Profiles
- Exporting Host Profiles
- Importing Host Profiles
- Duplicating Host Profiles
- Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder
- Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts
- Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
- Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager
- Downloading Patch Definitions
- Creating Patch Baselines
- Creating Host Upgrade Baselines
- Creating Baseline Groups
- Configuring Update Manager's Remediation Settings
- Patching/upgrading ESXi hosts using Update Manager
- Upgrading VMware Tools and virtual hardware using Update Manager 
- Installing the Update Manager Download Service on Linux
- Configuring UMDS to download patches
- Configuring a Web Server on UMDS (Linux)
- Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates
- Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure
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