VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition by Hersey Cartwright

Key FeaturesGet the first book on the market that helps you design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6Achieve enhanced compute, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data centerExciting and practical recipes help you to design a virtual data easily by leveraging the features of VMware vSphere 6Book DescriptionVMware 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. With the release of 6.x a whole range of new features has come along such as ESXi Security enhancements, fault tolerance, high availability enhancements, and virtual volumes, thus simplifying the secure management of resources, the availability of applications, and performance enhancements of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenter.This book provides recipes to create a virtual datacenter design using the features of vSphere 6.x by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process. Youll follow steps that walk you through the design process from beginning to end, right from the discovery process to creating the conceptual design; calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design; mapping the logical requirements to a physical design; security design; and finally creating the design documentation.The recipes in this book provide guidance on making design decisions to ensure the successful creation, and ultimately the successful implementation, of a VMware vSphere 6.x virtual data center design.What You Will LearnIdentify key factors related to a vSphere design and apply them to every step of the design processMitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design.Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirementsDetermine the type of database to use based on the deployment size.Design for performance, availability, recoverability, manageability, and securityMap the logical resource design into the physical vSphere designCreate professional vSphere design documentation to ensure a successful implementation of the vSphere designLeverage the latest vSphere 6.x features to ensure manageability, performance, availability, and security in a virtual datacenter designAbout the AuthorHersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a solutions architect for SimpliVity, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware vSphere enterprise environments running on the SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) platform. He has experience of working with a wide variety of server and storage platforms.In 2012, he began preparing to submit a design to defend for his VMware Certified Design Expert. In February 2013, he successfully completed his defense and obtained VCDX. His VCDX number is #128.Since January 2011, he has been an instructor with the VMware IT Academy at Tidewater Community college where he teaches vSphere 5 and vSphere 6 classes. He designed and implemented the lab environment that is used by students in the virtualization and security programs offered at the Chesapeake Campus of Tidewater Community College. He enjoys teaching and learns a lot from teaching others about the benefits of virtualization.He actively participates in the VMware community, and he has been awarded the vExpert title every year since 2012. He has presented multiple ProfessionalVMware.com vBrownBags on vSphere administration, vSphere design, and vSphere disaster recovery. He regularly blogs about virtualization and other technologies at http://www.vhersey.com/.Table of ContentsThe Virtual DatacenterThe Discovery Process The Design FactorsvSphere Management DesignvSphere Storage DesignvSphere Network DesignvSphere Compute DesignvSphere Physical DesignVirtual Machine DesignvSphere Security DesignDisaster Recovery and Business ContinuityDesign Documentation