VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook, 3rd Edition

Design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6.7

Key Features

• Get the first book on the market that helps you design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6.7
• Learn how to create professional vSphere design documentation to ensure a successful implementation
• A practical guide that will help you apply infrastructure design principles to vSphere design

Book Description

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads.

This book uses proven infrastructure design principles and applies them to VMware vSphere 6.7 virtual data center design through short and focused recipes on each design aspect. The second edition of this book focused on vSphere 6.0. vSphere features released since then necessitate an updated design guide, which includes recipes for upgrading to 6.7, vCenter HA; operational improvements; cutting-edge, high-performance storage access such as RDMA and Pmem; security features such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption; Proactive HA; HA Orchestrated Restart; Predictive DRS; and more.

By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.

What you will learn

• Identify key factors related to a vSphere design
• Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design
• Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
• Design for performance, availability, recoverability, manageability, and security
• Map the logical resource design into the physical vSphere design
• Create professional vSphere design documentation

Who this book is for

If you are an administrator or consultant interested in designing virtualized data center environments using VMware vSphere 6.x (or previous versions of vSphere and the supporting components), this book is for you.

Table of Contents

1. The Virtual Datacenter
2. The Discovery Process
3. The Design Factors
4. vSphere Management Design
5. vSphere Storage Design
6. vSphere Network Design
7. vSphere Compute Design
8. The vSphere Physical Design
9. Virtual Machine Design
10. vSphere Security Design
11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
12. Design Documentation