Introductie vSphere7, ESXi, vCenter
5 important questions on Introductie vSphere7, ESXi, vCenter
Name a few (out of many) vsphere features
- Virtual SMP
- vMotion
- DRS
- Storage & Network I/O control
- Policy-based storage
- High Availability
- Foult tolerance
What should I virtualize?
- Even the largest servers can (and should be) virtualized
- virtualization enables many benefits, largely tied to "mobility"
- Abstraction is the key to virtualization
- Organizations an businesses have "virtualize first" and even "cloud first" policies today.
What are the different ways to deploy an ESXi?
- Interactive
- physical CD/USB or Mount ISO
- Limited configuration options
- Scripted installation
- Auto deploy server
- PXE boot
- Host profiles and image profiles
- Statefull(to local disc), Stateless(always boot from network image) or stateless caching (boot from network when available)
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What is important when installing ESXi?
- The VMware HCL is important, always check during your planning phase
- Existing Compute, Storage and Network decisions will limit your available ESXi hardware options
- Only license for what features are needed
- Always configure DNS and NTP before anything else
What do you need to think about when it comes to Resource management when configuring Vcenter?
- Hosts provide, VMs consume
- vCenter: Who gets what en when (In cluster)
- Resources: CPU, RAM, Disk and Network
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