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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 384 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 233x189x21 mm, kaal: 586 g, Illustrations, Contains 1 Digital online
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Mar-2011
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 0470922028
  • ISBN-13: 9780470922026
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 384 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 233x189x21 mm, kaal: 586 g, Illustrations, Contains 1 Digital online
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Mar-2011
  • Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 0470922028
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"The only book to cover how to properly design a VMware vSphere 4 implementation VMware vSphere is the industry's most widely deployed virtualization solution. The current release VMware vSphere 4 is considered the most robust and sophisticated virtualization product. This book is the only one of its kind to clearly and concisely show you how to create a vSphere 4 implementation so that it is tailored to meet a company's needs and resources. Expert authors share with you the factors that influence andshape the design of a vSphere 4 implementation. You will learn how to make the right design decisions for your company. Explores the newest release of VMware vSphere, the industry's most widely deployed virtualization solution Details the overall design process, server hardware, network layout, security, storage infrastructure, application ownership, and more Reviews everything you need to know in order to make the right decisions for using VMware vSphere 4 to meet your company's needs Shows you step by step how to use tools such as VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat, VMware vCenter Server Role Based Access Controls, CapacityIQ, vKernel, and more Packed with real-world examples, VMware vSphere 4 Design shows you just how the design for your company should ideally look--and how you can achieve that goal."--

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To design a VMware vSphere implementation for the performance, scalability, and ROI that your business needs, you must understand all the factors that influence the outcome. Written for engineers and architects who plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize vSphere solutions, this unique book helps you make the right design decisions.

Should you use ESX or ESXi? Build your vCenter as a virtual machine? Design your storage for capacity or for performance? Filled with real-world examples, clear explanations of tools and concepts, and coverage of such topics as network topology, security domains, storage infrastructure, and more, this is the perfect guide for deploying a new design or transforming an existing one. Inside, you'll explore

The only book to cover how to properly design a VMware vSphere 4 implementation

VMware vSphere is the industry’s most widely deployed virtualization solution. The current release VMware vSphere 4 is considered the most robust and sophisticated virtualization product. This book is the only one of its kind to clearly and concisely show you how to create a vSphere 4 implementation so that it is tailored to meet a company’s needs and resources. Expert authors share with you the factors that influence and shape the design of a vSphere 4 implementation. You will learn how to make the right design decisions for your company.

  • Explores the newest release of VMware vSphere, the industry’s most widely deployed virtualization solution
  • Details the overall design process, server hardware, network layout, security, storage infrastructure, application ownership, and more
  • Reviews everything you need to know in order to make the right decisions for using VMware vSphere 4 to meet your company’s needs
  • Shows you step by step how to use tools such as VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat, VMware vCenter Server Role Based Access Controls, CapacityIQ, vKernel, and more

Packed with real-world examples, VMware vSphere 4 Design shows you just how the design for your company should ideally look—and how you can achieve that goal.

Arvustused

'...a comprehensive resource suitable for beginners to experts...scores 10 / 10 in terms of content and value for money.' (BCS.org, April 2011).

Introduction xxi
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Designing VMware Environments
1(14)
What Is Design?
1(4)
The Facets of vSphere Design
5(4)
The Technical Facet
6(1)
The Organizational Facet
7(1)
The Operational Facet
8(1)
The Process of Design
9(5)
Gathering and Defining Functional Requirements
9(1)
Assessing the Environment
10(2)
Assembling the Design
12(1)
Documenting the Design
13(1)
Performing the Implementation
14(1)
Summary
14(1)
Chapter 2 ESX vs. ESXi
15(34)
Two vSphere Hypervisors
15(1)
ESX Design
16(9)
Installation Design Options
18(5)
Post-Installation Design Options
23(2)
ESXi Design
25(15)
ESXi Components
26(1)
ESXi Agents
27(1)
ESXi System Image
27(1)
ESXi Flavors: Installable and Embedded
28(4)
ESXi Management
32(8)
ESX vs. ESXi
40(4)
Similarities
40(1)
When to Use ESX
41(1)
When to Use ESXi
42(2)
Migrating to ESXi
44(2)
Testing
44(1)
Deployment
45(1)
Management
45(1)
Summary
46(3)
Chapter 3 Designing the Management Layer
49(30)
Components of the Management Layer
49(9)
VMware vCenter Server
49(1)
Choosing the Operating System for your vCenter
50(2)
VMware Update Manager
52(1)
Management Applications
53(5)
Sizing Your vCenter Server
58(5)
Operating System
58(1)
Using a Remote or Local Server
58(2)
Number of Objects Managed
60(1)
Update Manager
61(2)
Plug-ins
63(1)
Guided Consolidation
63(1)
Storage Vendor Plug-in
64(1)
Linked Mode
64(4)
Prerequisites
64(1)
Considerations
65(1)
Under the Covers
65(2)
Roles
67(1)
vCenter: Virtual or Physical
68(2)
Physical Server
68(1)
Virtual
68(2)
Redundancy
70(6)
vCenter
72(2)
SQL/Oracle Database
74(2)
Security
76(1)
Isolation
76(1)
Permissions
76(1)
SSL Certificates
77(1)
Summary
77(2)
Chapter 4 Server Hardware
79(40)
Hardware Considerations
79(11)
Factors in Selecting Hardware
80(3)
Computing Needs
83(2)
Server Constraints
85(3)
Differentiating Among Vendors
88(2)
Server Components
90(13)
CPU
90(3)
RAM
93(6)
NUMA
99(1)
Motherboard
100(1)
Storage
100(1)
Network
101(2)
PCI
103(1)
Preparing the Server
103(2)
Configuring the BIOS
103(1)
Other Hardware Settings
104(1)
Burn-in
104(1)
Preproduction Checks
104(1)
Scale Up vs. Scale Out
105(5)
Advantages of Scaling Up
106(1)
Advantages of Scaling Out
107(1)
Scaling Is a Matter of Perspective
108(1)
Risk Assessment
108(1)
Choosing the Right Size
109(1)
Blade Servers vs. Rack Servers
110(5)
Blade Servers
111(2)
Rack Servers
113(1)
Form-Factor Conclusions
114(1)
Alternative Hardware Approaches
115(2)
Cloud Computing
115(1)
Converged Hardware
116(1)
Summary
117(2)
Chapter 5 Designing your Network
119(26)
Designing with Redundancy
119(6)
Hosts
120(4)
Network Switches (pSwitches)
124(1)
Security
125(3)
Management Network
125(1)
Virtual Machine Traffic
126(1)
IP Storage Network Traffic
126(1)
vMotion and FT Traffic
127(1)
Performance
128(2)
Service Console
128(1)
vMotion
129(1)
IP Storage
129(1)
Virtual Machine Network
130(1)
Teaming Options
130(3)
Guest OS Network Teaming and Virtual Machine Port Groups
130(1)
IP Storage
130(3)
Jumbo Frames
133(1)
Fault Tolerance
134(1)
10GbE
135(1)
Physical Network Cable
135(1)
Switches
135(1)
Network Modules
135(1)
vSwitches and vDSs
136(2)
Central Management
136(1)
Private VLANs
137(1)
Port Groups, Management, and VMkernel
137(1)
Naming and IP Conventions
138(1)
Design Scenarios
139(4)
Two NICs
140(1)
Four NICs
140(1)
Six NICs
141(1)
Eight NICs
141(1)
Two 10GbE NICS
142(1)
Four 10GbE NICS
142(1)
Summary
143(2)
Chapter 6 Storage
145(44)
Dimensions of Storage Design
145(5)
Storage Design Factors
146(1)
Storage Efficiency
147(3)
Designing for Capacity
150(9)
RAID Options
150(3)
Estimating Capacity Requirements
153(1)
VMFS Capacity Limits
153(1)
Large or Small Datastores?
154(1)
VMFS Block Sizes
155(1)
Thin Provisioning
156(2)
Data Deduplication
158(1)
Array Compression
159(1)
Downside of Saving Space
159(1)
Designing for Performance
159(10)
Measuring Storage Performance
159(1)
How to Calculate a Disk's IOPS
160(1)
What Can Affect a Storage Array's IOPS?
160(8)
Measuring Your Existing IOPS Usage
168(1)
Local Storage vs. Shared Storage
169(3)
Local Storage
169(2)
What About Local Shared Storage?
171(1)
Shared Storage
172(1)
Choosing a Network Protocol
172(11)
Fiber Channel
174(2)
iSCSI
176(3)
NFS
179(3)
Protocol Choice at the End of the Day
182(1)
Multipathing
183(3)
SAN Multipathing
183(3)
NAS Multipathing
186(1)
Summary
186(3)
Chapter 7 Virtual Machines
189(48)
Components of a Virtual Machine
189(19)
Base Virtual Machine Hardware
190(1)
Hardware Versions
190(1)
Virtual Machine Maximums
191(1)
Hardware Choices
192(7)
Removing or Disabling Unused Hardware
199(1)
Virtual Machine Options
199(5)
Resources
204(4)
Naming Virtual Machines
208(1)
VMware Tools
208(1)
Sizing Virtual Machines
208(1)
Virtual Machine Network Design
209(4)
vNIC Drivers
209(3)
MAC Addresses
212(1)
VLAN Tagging
212(1)
Virtual Machine Storage Design
213(6)
Disks
213(1)
Disk Modes
214(1)
SCSI Controllers
215(1)
Disk Types
216(1)
RDMs
217(1)
Storage vMotion
218(1)
Guest Software
219(5)
Selecting an OS
219(1)
Software Licensing
220(1)
Disk Alignment
221(1)
Defragmentation
222(1)
Optimizing the Guest for the Hypervisor
223(1)
Clones, Templates, and vApps
224(5)
Clones
225(1)
Templates
226(1)
Preparing a Template
227(1)
OVF Standard
228(1)
vApps
228(1)
Virtual Machine Availability
229(6)
vSphere VM Availability
229(3)
Third-Party VM Clustering
232(3)
Summary
235(2)
Chapter 8 Datacenter Design
237(42)
vSphere Inveritory Structure
237(4)
Inventory Root
238(1)
Folders
238(1)
Datacenters
239(1)
Clusters
239(1)
Resource Pools
239(1)
Hosts
239(1)
Virtual Machines
239(1)
Templates
240(1)
Datastores
240(1)
Networks
240(1)
Why and How to Structure
240(1)
Clusters
241(2)
EVC
243(1)
Swapfile Policy
243(1)
Cluster Sizing
244(1)
Resource Pools
244(1)
Resource Pool Settings
245(2)
Admission Control
247(1)
Distributed Resource Scheduling
247(11)
Load Balancing
247(4)
Affinity Rules
251(3)
Distributed Power Management
254(4)
High Availability and Clustering
258(18)
High Availability
258(9)
VM and Application Monitoring
267(2)
Fault Tolerance
269(7)
Summary
276(3)
Chapter 9 Designing with Security in Mind
279(26)
Why Is Security Important?
279(1)
Separation of Duties
279(2)
Risk Scenario
279(1)
Risk Mitigation
280(1)
Shell Access to the ESX Host
281(3)
Risk Scenario
281(1)
Risk Mitigation
281(3)
vCenter Permissions
284(3)
Risk Scenario
284(1)
Risk Mitigation
284(3)
Managing Network Access
287(2)
Risk Scenario
287(1)
Risk Mitigation
287(2)
The DMZ
289(3)
Risk Scenario
289(1)
Risk Mitigation
289(3)
Protecting the VMs
292(2)
Risk Scenario
292(1)
Risk Mitigation
292(2)
Change Management
294(1)
Risk Scenario
294(1)
Risk Mitigation
294(1)
Protecting Your Data
295(2)
Risk Scenario
296(1)
Risk Mitigation
296(1)
Cloud
297(2)
Risk Scenario
297(1)
Risk Mitigation
298(1)
Security in vCenter Linked Mode
299(1)
Risk Scenario
299(1)
Risk Mitigation
299(1)
Firewalls in Your Virtual Infrastructure
300(3)
The Problem
301(1)
The Solution
301(2)
Auditing and Compliance
303(1)
The Problem
303(1)
The Solution
303(1)
Summary
304(1)
Chapter 10 Monitoring and Capacity Planning
305(20)
Nothing Is Static
305(1)
Building Monitoring into the Design
306(9)
Determining the Tools to Use
306(5)
Selecting the Items to Monitor
311(2)
Selecting Thresholds
313(1)
Taking Action on Thresholds
314(1)
Alerting the Operators
315(1)
Incorporating Capacity Planning in the Design
315(7)
Planning Before Virtualization
316(3)
Planning During Virtualization
319(3)
Summary
322(3)
Chapter 11 Bringing It All Together
325(14)
Sample Design
325(4)
Business Overview for XYZ Widgets
325(2)
Hypervisor Selection (VMware ESX vs. VMware ESXi)
327(1)
vSphere Management Layer
327(1)
Server Hardware
327(1)
Networking Configuration
327(1)
Shared Storage Configuration
328(1)
VM Design
328(1)
VMware Datacenter Design
328(1)
Security Architecture
329(1)
Monitoring and Capacity Planning
329(1)
Examining the Design
329(9)
Hypervisor Selection (VMware ESX vs. VMware ESXi)
329(1)
vSphere Management Layer
330(2)
Server Hardware
332(1)
Networking Configuration
333(2)
Shared Storage Configuration
335(1)
VM Design
336(1)
VMware Datacenter Design
337(1)
Security Architecture
337(1)
Monitoring and Capacity Planning
338(1)
Summary
338(1)
Index 339
Forbes Guthrie, VCP, is a systems engineer and infrastructure architect who specializes in virtualization and storage technologies. He is also a VMware vExpert and the creator of several popular virtualization reference cards. Forbes blogs at www.vReference.com. Scott Lowe, VCDX 39, is VMware-Cisco Solutions Principal at EMC. Scott is a VMware vExpert and author of two other books on VMware vSphere, including the bestselling Mastering VMware vSphere 4. Scott also writes at blog.scottlowe.org, which attracts thousands of visitors daily. Maish Saidel-Keesing, VCP, is a systems virtualization architect at NDS, where his responsibilities involve virtualization architecture design, maintenance, and development for both Linux and Windows infrastructures. He is a VMware vExpert, contributes to SearchServerVirtualization.com, and blogs at technodrone.blogspot.com.