VMWare vCenter Cookbook

Over 65 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently manage your vSphere environment with VMware vCenter

About This Book

• Learn how to increase availability and scalability of your virtual environment
• Improve efficiency and optimize resource usage in your virtual infrastructure
• Explore new vCenter features and discover best ways to implement them using proactive examples

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system administrator who has some experience with virtualization and already uses VMware vCenter, but wishes to learn more, then this is the book for you. If you are looking for tips or shortcuts for common administration tasks as well as workarounds for pain points in vSphere administration, you'll find this guide useful.

What You Will Learn

• Manage your virtual environment faster and in a more efficient manner
• Easily implement and start using new vCenter features
• Scale an existing virtual environment quickly
• Optimize resource usage across virtual infrastructures
• Prioritize VMs with resource pools
• Perform simple and advanced administrative tasks using VMware
• Discover tips on task optimization that will let you have more time for important tasks

In Detail

VMware vCenter is a centralized management application server that lets you manage virtual machines and ESXi hosts centrally and optimizes resources efficiently. Day-to-day virtual environment administration for IT professionals will become much easier with the help of this book! Clear and helpful recipes and tips offered in this book will help administrators to increase their level of expertise and gain new skills in vSphere administration. You begin by learning useful tasks and features of vCenter such as accessing hosts via SSH and securing host management access. You will then learn ways to ensure 100 percent uptime for critical VMs, protect host redundancy and configure a backup retention policy, all while increasing environment availability. Following this, you will discover how to increase and improve environment scalability and optimize resource usage. Finally, you'll finish your journey by learning how to improve environment manageability using CLI, VM cloning, and many other methods.

超過65個實用的食譜，幫助您有效地管理使用VMware vCenter的vSphere環境。

關於本書：
- 學習如何提高虛擬環境的可用性和可擴展性。
- 改善效率並優化虛擬基礎架構中的資源使用。
- 探索新的vCenter功能，並通過實際示例發現最佳實施方法。

本書適合對虛擬化有一定經驗並已使用VMware vCenter的系統管理員。如果您正在尋找常見管理任務的技巧或捷徑，以及vSphere管理中的痛點解決方法，這本指南對您很有用。

您將學到：
- 更快速、更高效地管理虛擬環境。
- 輕鬆實施並開始使用新的vCenter功能。
- 快速擴展現有的虛擬環境。
- 在虛擬基礎架構中優化資源使用。
- 使用資源池優先處理虛擬機器。
- 使用VMware執行簡單和高級管理任務。
- 發現任務優化的技巧，讓您有更多時間處理重要任務。

詳細內容：
VMware vCenter是一個集中管理應用伺服器，讓您可以集中管理虛擬機器和ESXi主機，並有效地優化資源。這本書提供的清晰且有用的食譜和技巧將幫助管理員提高他們在vSphere管理中的專業水平，並獲得新的技能。您將首先學習有關vCenter的有用任務和功能，例如通過SSH訪問主機和保護主機管理訪問權限。然後，您將學習如何確保關鍵虛擬機器的100％正常運行時間，保護主機冗餘性並配置備份保留策略，同時提高環境的可用性。接著，您將發現如何增加和改善環境的可擴展性，並優化資源使用。最後，您將通過使用CLI、虛擬機克隆和其他方法來提高環境的可管理性，完成您的學習之旅。