VMware Cookbook: A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use
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VMware Cookbook: A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use
By Ryan Troy, Matthew Helmke
* Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
* Number Of Pages: 298
* Publication Date: 2009-11-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0596157258
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780596157258
Product Description:
If you want to gain insight into the real-world uses of VMware ESX and ESXi, this book provides scores of step-by-step solutions for working with these products in a wide range of network environments. You'll not only learn the basics -- how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines -- but also the stumbling blocks you'll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security.
In addition to the recipes, VMware Cookbook includes background information to help you determine your virtualization needs. You'll come to view VMware as part of the real environment, alongside operating systems, storage, and logical and physical network components.
* Follow best practices for installing VMware in your environment
* Discover how to secure and monitor your network
* Understand disk storage implementation and configuration
* Learn resource management using the distributed resource scheduler, shares, and resource pools
* Configure logical and physical networks
* Learn how to clone and migrate servers
* Gain valuable tips for configuration and fine-tuning
Many resources can teach you about virtualization and the basics of VMware. This book is for system administrators who are ready to go beyond an introduction.
Contents:
VMware Cookbook
Front Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
Audience
Organization of This Book
Font Conventions
Using Code Examples
We’d Like to Hear from You
Safari® Books Online
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. VMware Infrastructure Installation
1.1 What Is VMware Infrastructure 3?
1.2 What Is VMware vSphere 4.0?
1.3 VMware ESX 3.x/4.x Configuration Maximums
See Also
1.4 VMware ESX 3.x Server Overview
1.5 VMware ESX 3.x Installation
See Also
1.6 VMware ESXi 3.5 Overview
1.7 VMware ESXi 3.5 Installation
Configure Root Password
Configure Lockdown Mode
Configure Management Network
See Also
1.8 VMware vCenter Server 2.x Overview
1.9 vCenter Server 2.x Installation
VMware vCenter 2.x Server Requirements
VMware vCenter 2.x Server Database Requirements
1.10 VMware vCenter Client 2.x Overview
1.11 vCenter Client 2.x Installation
1.12 License Server Overview
1.13 License Server (vCenter 2.x) Installation
1.14 vConverter Overview
1.15 vConverter Installation
Installation on Windows
Installation on Linux
1.16 VMware ESX 4.0 Installation
See Also
Chapter 2. Storage
2.10 Raw Device Mapping in Virtual Machines
2.1 Comparing ESX Storage Options
2.11 Creating a Port to Access NFS Datastores
2.12 Configuring ESX to Use NFS
2.13 Creating a VMFS Volume in vCenter
2.14 Performing a Storage Rescan
2.15 Creating a VMFS Volume via the Command Line
2.16 Viewing the Files That Define a VMFS Volume
2.17 Extending a VMFS Volume
2.18 Reading VMFS Metadata
2.19 Renaming a VMFS Volume Label from the Command Line
2.20 Manually Creating and Aligning a VMFS Partition
2.2 Storage Device Naming Scheme
2.21 Creating a Diagnostic Partition
2.22 Removing Storage Volumes from ESX
2.23 Determining Whether a VMFS Datastore Is on a Local or SAN Disk
2.24 Adjusting Timeouts When Adding Storage in vCenter
2.25 Setting Disk Timeouts in Windows
2.3 Creating a Network for a Software iSCSI Initiator
2.4 Configuring Software iSCSI
2.5 Configuring a Hardware iSCSI Initiator
2.6 Configuring iSCSI in Windows Virtual Machines
2.7 Opening Firewall Ports for an ESX iSCSI Software Initiator
2.8 Multipathing with iSCSI
2.9 Adding Fibre Channel Storage in ESX
Chapter 3. Networking
3.1 Understanding Differences Between ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 in Network Support
3.10 Setting the Basic Level 2 Security Policy
3.11 Ethernet Traffic Shaping
3.12 Using Multiple Gateways
3.13 Load Balancing and Failover
3.14 Creating a Jumbo Frame VMkernel Interface for iSCSI
3.15 Enabling Jumbo Frames on a vSwitch
3.16 Enabling Jumbo Frames on a Virtual Machine
3.17 Changing the Service Console IP Address
3.18 Using the Command Line to Locate Physical Ethernet Adapters
3.19 Changing the Ethernet Port Speed via the Command Line
3.2 Configuring ESX Network Ports and Firewall
3.20 Restoring a Service Console via the CLI
3.3 Creating a vSwitch for Virtual Machines
3.4 Removing a Virtual Switch
3.5 Adding VMotion to Enable Virtual Machine Migration
3.6 Creating a Service Console Network via the CLI
3.7 Checking Connectivity Using vmkping
3.8 Modifying the Speed of a Network Adapter
3.9 Choosing Network Elements That Protect Security
Chapter 4. Resource and vCenter Management
4.1 Understanding Virtual Machine Memory Use Through Reservations, Shares, and Limits
4.10 Enabling DRS in a Cluster
4.11 Understanding Cluster States and Warnings
4.12 Reconfiguring HA on a Host
4.13 Using ESX 4.x CPU/RAM Hot Add/Hotplug Support
4.14 Surviving a vCenter Server Failure or Outage
4.2 Configuring Virtual Machine CPU Limits
4.3 Configuring Virtual Machine CPU Shares
4.4 Configuring Virtual Machine CPU Reservations
4.5 Setting Up Resource Pools
4.6 Understanding Resource Pools
4.7 Expandable Reservations in Resource Pools
4.8 Creating a Cluster
4.9 Adding Hosts to a Cluster
Chapter 5. Useful Command-Line Tools
5.1 Entering Maintenance Mode via the Command Line
5.10 Monitoring Storage Performance
5.11 Monitoring Network Usage
5.12 Managing Virtual Switches
5.13 Generating a Logfile for VMware Support
5.14 Checking ESX Patches
5.15 Enabling NTP in vCenter
5.16 Enabling NTP via the Command Line
5.17 Changing the ESX Server’s Time
5.18 Using TCP Wrappers
5.19 Restarting the vCenter Agent
5.20 Unregistering a Virtual Machine via the Command Line
5.2 Displaying Server Information
5.21 Registering a Virtual Machine via the Command Line
5.22 Finding Virtual Machine Snapshots
5.23 Renaming a Virtual Machine via vCenter
5.24 Renaming a Virtual Machine via the Command Line
5.25 Using Host Files
5.26 Setting ESX Options Using the Command Line
5.27 Configuring Authentication Choices Using the Command Line
5.28 Manipulating the Bootloader
5.29 Manipulating the Crash Dump Partition
5.30 Configuring a Firewall on the Command Line
5.3 Viewing the ESX Version
5.31 Managing ESX Driver Modules
5.32 Configuring Storage Mul
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