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VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, Second Edition
By: Edward Haletky
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: February 08, 2011
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-705897-7
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-705897-6
Web ISBN-10: 0-13-705926-4
Web ISBN-13: 978-0-13-705926-3
Pages in Print Edition: 600
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Overview
Edward Haletky’s Complete, Solutions-Focused Guide to Running ESX Server 3.5, vSphere, and VMware 4.X
Extensively updated and revised, this is the definitive real-world guide to planning, deploying, and managing VMware ESX Server 3.5, VMware ESXi, or VMware vSphere 4.x cloud computing in mission-critical environments.
Drawing on extensive experience consulting on enterprise VMware implementations, Edward Haletky offers a “soup-to-nuts” collection of field-tested best practices and solutions. He illuminates the real issues, tradeoffs, and pitfalls associated with VMware’s newest platforms, using real-world examples that draw upon both VMware and third-party products.
This edition adds a new chapter on automated deployment and configuration; detailed coverage of new hardware and processors; and a significantly expanded discussion of auditing and monitoring. Haletky offers new or enhanced coverage of VMFS, NIC Teaming, distributed virtual switches, vSafe, and more.
All new coverage is thoroughly integrated into Haletky’s expert discussion of the entire lifecycle: planning, installation, templates, monitoring, tuning, clustering, security, disaster recovery, and more. Haletky consistently presents the most efficient procedures, whether they use graphical tools or the command line. You’ll learn how to:
Assess VMware datacenter and infrastructure hardware requirements
Understand technical, licensing, and management differences between ESX/ESXi 4.x and 3.5
Plan installation for your environment and identify potential “gotchas”
Cost-effectively select, configure, utilize, and support storage
Manage key operational issues associated with virtual infrastructure
Adapt existing network and security infrastructure to virtualization
Configure vSphere from host connections
Configure ESX Server from Virtual Centers or hosts
Create, modify, and manage VMs (with detailed Windows, Linux, and NetWare examples)
Troubleshoot VM issues with eDirectory, private labs, firewalls, and clusters
Utilize vSphere 4.1’s improved Dynamic Resource Load Balancing (DRLB)
Implement disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup
Plan for vApps and the future of virtualization
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"Excellent book " - by Anonymous on 14-DEC-2012
Reviewer Rating:
Well written, complete, concise, this author masters this technology. Perhaps a little weak in DR but extremely solid in all other aspects.
Despite some acronyms are not defined (you are assumed to know) the book gives excellent explanations on the various dimensions you need to know.
I usually hate books with "print screens", however the author has a creative way to address this, by combining 2 to 5 actions on one screen shots (fugure 8.x etc.) so for the first time am notannoyed.
It's also a wakeup call for me and made me realize that ther are a lot to think before jumping.
Also this book would qualify as a "from beginner to expert" but is more of the latter.
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