The one-stop guide to modern networking for every VMware® administrator, engineer, and architect Now that virtualization has blurred the lines between networking and servers, many VMware specialists need a stronger understanding of networks than they may have gained in earlier IT roles. Networking for VMware Administrators fills this crucial knowledge gap. Writing for VMware professionals, Christopher Wahl and Steve Pantol illuminate the core concepts of modern networking, and show how to apply them in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting any virtualized network environment. Drawing on their extensive experience with a wide range of virtual network environments, the authors address physical networking, switching, storage networking, and several leading virtualization scenarios, including converged infrastructure. Teaching through relevant examples, they focus on foundational concepts and features that will be valuable for years to come. To support rapid learning and mastery, they present clear learning objectives, questions, problems, a complete glossary, and extensive up-to-date references. Coverage includes: • The absolute basics: network models, layers, and interfaces, and why they matter • Building networks that are less complex, more modular, and fully interoperable • Improving your virtual network stack: tips, tricks, and techniques for avoiding common pitfalls • Collaborating more effectively with network and storage professionals • Understanding Ethernet, Advanced Layer 2, Layer 3, and modern converged infrastructure • Mastering virtual switching and understanding how it differs from physical switching • Designing and operating vSphere standard and distributed switching • Working with third-party switches, including Cisco Nexus 1000V • Creating powerful, resilient virtual networks to handle critical storage network traffic • Deploying rackmount servers with 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet • Virtualizing blade servers with converged traffic and virtual NICs Christopher Wahl has acquired well over a decade of IT experience in enterprise infrastructure design, implementation, and administration. He has provided architectural and engineering expertise in a variety of virtualization, data center, and private cloud based engagements while working with high performance technical teams in tiered data center environments. He currently holds the title of Senior Technical Architect at Ahead, a consulting firm based out of Chicago. Steve Pantol has spent the last 14 years wearing various technical hats, with the last seven or so focused on assorted VMware technologies. He is a Senior Technical Architect at Ahead, working to build better datacenters and drive adoption of cloud technologies.

Networking for VMWare Administrators (Vmware Press Technology)

Computers & Technology

Wahl, Christopher

Steve Pantol

Networking & Cloud Computing

Vmware Pr Technology

Plan and Implement Hadoop Virtualization for Maximum Performance, Scalability, and Business Agility Enterprises running Hadoop must absorb rapid changes in big data ecosystems, frameworks, products, and workloads. Virtualized approaches can offer important advantages in speed, flexibility, and elasticity. Now, a world-class team of enterprise virtualization and big data experts guide you through the choices, considerations, and tradeoffs surrounding Hadoop virtualization. The authors help you decide whether to virtualize Hadoop, deploy Hadoop in the cloud, or integrate conventional and virtualized approaches in a blended solution. First, Virtualizing Hadoop reviews big data and Hadoop from the standpoint of the virtualization specialist. The authors demystify MapReduce, YARN, and HDFS and guide you through each stage of Hadoop data management. Next, they turn the tables, introducing big data experts to modern virtualization concepts and best practices. Finally, they bring Hadoop and virtualization together, guiding you through the decisions you’ll face in planning, deploying, provisioning, and managing virtualized Hadoop. From security to multitenancy to day-to-day management, you’ll find reliable answers for choosing your best Hadoop strategy and executing it. Coverage includes the following: • Reviewing the frameworks, products, distributions, use cases, and roles associated with Hadoop • Understanding YARN resource management, HDFS storage, and I/O • Designing data ingestion, movement, and organization for modern enterprise data platforms • Defining SQL engine strategies to meet strict SLAs • Considering security, data isolation, and scheduling for multitenant environments • Deploying Hadoop as a service in the cloud • Reviewing the essential concepts, capabilities, and terminology of virtualization • Applying current best practices, guidelines, and key metrics for Hadoop virtualization • Managing multiple Hadoop frameworks and products as one unified system • Virtualizing master and worker nodes to maximize availability and performance • Installing and configuring Linux for a Hadoop environment

Virtualizing Hadoop: How to Install, Deploy, and Optimize Hadoop in a Virtualized Architecture

Jones, Steven

KIM, Charles

Garcia, Rommel

Trujillo, George J., Jr.

Murray, Justin

Certification

DevOps for VMware® Administrators is the first book focused on using DevOps tools and practices with VMware technologies. The authors introduce high-value tools from third parties and VMware itself, and guide you through using them to improve the performance of all your virtualized systems and applications. You’ll walk through automating and optimizing configuration management, provisioning, log management, continuous integration, and more. The authors also offer step-by-step coverage of deploying and managing applications at scale with Docker containers and Google Kubernetes. They conclude with an up-to-the-minute discussion of VMware’s newest DevOps initiatives, including VMware vRealize Automation and VMware vRealize Code Stream. Coverage includes • Understanding the challenges that DevOps tools and practices can help VMware administrators to solve • Using Vagrant to quickly deploy Dev and Test environments that match production system specifications • Writing Chef “recipes” that streamline server configuration and maintenance • Simplifying Unix/Linux configuration management and orchestration with Ansible • Implementing Docker containers for faster and easier application management • Automating provisioning across the full lifecycle with Razor • Integrating Microsoft PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and VMware PowerCLI to automate key Windows Server and vSphere VM admin tasks • Using Puppet to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, orchestration, and reporting • Supercharging log management with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) • Supporting DevOps source code management with Git and continuous integration practices with Jenkins • Achieving continuous integration, delivery, and deployment with VMware’s vRealize Code Stream

DevOps for VMware Administrators

Sigler, Egle

Roberts, Trevor, Jr.

Atwell, Josh

Van Doorn, Yvo

Understand and implement VMware Virtual SAN: the heart of tomorrow’s Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) VMware’s breakthrough Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) initiative can help you virtualize your entire datacenter: compute, storage, networks, and associated services. Central to SDDC is VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN): a fully distributed storage architecture seamlessly integrated into the hypervisor and capable of scaling to meet any enterprise storage requirement. Now, the leaders of VMware’s wildly popular Virtual SAN previews have written the first authoritative guide to this pivotal technology. You’ll learn what Virtual SAN is, exactly what it offers, how to implement it, and how to maximize its value. Writing for administrators, consultants, and architects, Cormac Hogan and Duncan Epping show how Virtual SAN implements both object-based storage and a policy platform that simplifies VM storage placement. You’ll learn how Virtual SAN and vSphere work together to dramatically improve resiliency, scale-out storage functionality, and control over QoS. Both an up-to-the-minute reference and hands-on tutorial, Essential Virtual SAN uses realistic examples to demonstrate Virtual SAN’s most powerful capabilities. You’ll learn how to plan, architect, and deploy Virtual SAN successfully, avoid gotchas, and troubleshoot problems once you’re up and running. Coverage includes <ul>
<li> Understanding the key goals and concepts of Software-Defined Storage and Virtual SAN technology 
</li> <li> Meeting physical and virtual requirements for safe Virtual SAN implementation 
</li> <li> Installing and configuring Virtual SAN for your unique environment 
</li> <li> Using Storage Policy Based Management to control availability, performance, and reliability 
</li> <li> Simplifying deployment with VM Storage Policies 
</li> <li> Discovering key Virtual SAN architectural details: caching I/O, VASA, witnesses, pass-through RAID, and more 
</li> <li> Ensuring efficient day-to-day Virtual SAN management and maintenance 
</li> <li> Interoperating with other VMware features and products 
</li> <li> Designing and sizing Virtual SAN clusters 
</li> <li> Troubleshooting, monitoring, and performance optimization 
</li> </ul>

Essential Virtual SAN: Administrator's Guide to VMWare Virtual SAN

Epping, Duncan

Hogan, Cormac

Plan, implement, and manage VMware’s radically simple, enterprise-class software-defined storage platform VMware’s Virtual SAN has rapidly proven itself in environments ranging from hospitals to oil rigs to e-commerce platforms. Along the way, it has matured to offer unsurpassed features for data integrity, availability, and space efficiency. Virtual SAN 6.x makes all-flash storage practical for even more use cases, while radically simplifying IT operations and supporting the transition to hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI). Now, the authors of Essential Virtual SAN (VSAN) have thoroughly updated their definitive guide to this transformative technology. Writing for vSphere administrators, architects, and consultants, Cormac Hogan and Duncan Epping explain what Virtual SAN is, how it has evolved, what it now offers, and how to gain maximum value from it. Hogan and Epping draw on unsurpassed experience shaping Virtual SAN and helping VMware customers deploy it. They offer expert insight into preparation, installation, configuration, policies, provisioning, clusters, and more. You’ll also find practical guidance for using its new Health and Performance Services to gain end-to-end visibility into infrastructure and resource consumption. Both an up-to-the-minute reference and hands-on tutorial, Essential Virtual SAN, Second Edition uses realistic examples to demonstrate the immense power of Virtual SAN 6.x. You’ll learn all you need to successfully plan and deploy the newest versions, and operate them smoothly and efficiently. COVERAGE INCLUDES: <ul>
<li> Understanding the goals and concepts of Software-Defined Storage and Virtual SAN </li> <li> Meeting updated requirements for safe Virtual SAN 6.x implementation </li> <li> Architecting, installing, and configuring Virtual SAN for your unique environment </li> <li> Simplifying deployment with VM storage policies and provisioning </li> <li> Controlling availability, performance, and reliability </li> <li> Efficiently managing and maintaining Virtual SAN </li> <li> Providing resiliency and scale-out storage functionality </li> <li> Designing and sizing clusters (with examples) </li> <li> Using stretched clusters to address rigorous downtime requirements </li> <li> Applying valuable new features such as deduplication, compression, checksums, and encryption </li> <li> Using Health and Performance Services to troubleshoot hardware, configurations, and performance </li> </ul>

Essential Virtual San Vsan: Administrator's Guide to Vmware Virtual San (Vmware Press Technology)

This is the first definitive reference for all network and data center virtualization professionals planning, implementing, or operating VMware NSX 6.2 for vSphere. It is the only NSX guide published by VMware, authored by VMware technical experts, and reflecting the experience of pioneering VMware NSX adopters representing a wide spectrum of environments, use cases, deployment sizes, and feature usage. Drawing on 50+ years of network, data center, and virtualization experience, the authors offer deep practical insights for maximizing the reliability and value of VMware NSX and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) in any data center environment. You'll master VMware NSX through practical hands-on labs and detailed configuration examples. Coverage includes:   How VMware vSphere® enables the agile, virtualized data center   Establishing data center application and network topologies with VMware NSX    Working with VMware NSX Manager, VMware NSX Controller, and clustering   Defining logical switch networks with VXLAN   Transforming routing architectures with the Distributed Logical Router (DLR)   Implementing NSX edge routing and high availability   Deploying each leading type of VPN with NSX Edge VPN services   Balancing loads in your application topology   Using additional NSX edge services, including Layer 2 bridging, NAT, and DHCP    Securing your data center network with distributed firewalls   Automating your security architecture for maximum efficiency   Architecting, deploying, and migrating to Multi-vCenter NSX   Monitoring, securing, and optimizing VMware NSX environments

Vmware Nsx for Vsphere Essentials: A Practical Guide to Implementing Network Virtualization (Vmware Press Technology)

Burke, Anthony

La Quiante, Andreas

Moore, Neil

The Complete, Hands-On Guide to Installing and Configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 is the complete, technical, hands-on guide to VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 installation and configuration for experienced VMware professionals. VMware forum moderator and vExpert Mike Laverick fully explains SRM 5.0’s failover/failback procedures, walks readers through configuring storage replication with hardware from several leading suppliers, and shows how to efficiently implement fast, automated, centralized disaster recovery. Drawing on his extensive experience with SRM and vSphere, Laverick identifies common pitfalls and errors, explains why they occur, and shows exactly how to fix them. Fully up to date for SRM 5.0, this book delivers “in-the-trenches” technical knowledge you won’t find anywhere else, including expert guidance for utilizing SRM 5.0’s advanced new vSphere Replication (VR). Coverage includes <ul>
<li> Going “under the hood” with SRM 5.0 to thoroughly understand its operation </li> <li> Configuring SRM 5.0 with Dell EqualLogic Replication, EMC Celerra Replicator, EMC CLARiiON MirrorView, HP StorageWorks P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance with Remote Copy, and NetApp SnapMirror </li> <li> Configuring multiple LUN/volumes with virtual machines and virtual disks </li> <li> Installing VMware SRM and configuring vSphere Replication (VR) </li> <li> Using VR to replicate VMs across locations without third-party storage array-based replication </li> <li> Using VR to replicate a single VM or groups of VMs to the Recovery Site </li> <li> Efficiently configuring protected and recovery sites </li> <li> Using Reprotect Mode to accelerate failback and enhance VM portability </li> <li> Using dependencies and priority orders to configure SRM based on your existing categories of applications and services </li> <li> Leveraging SRM 5.0’s scalability improvements to serve large-scale and/or cloud environments </li> <li> Defining custom recovery plans </li> <li> Working with alarms, export histories, and access control </li> <li> Implementing bidirectional relationships and shared site configurations </li> <li> Scripting automated site recovery </li> <li> Upgrading from SRM 4.1 to SRM 5.0 </li> </ul>

Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0: Technology Hands-on

Laverick, Michael Gordon

THE ONLY AUTHORITATIVE, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO VSPHERE STORAGE IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT Effective VMware virtualization storage planning and management has become crucial–but it can be extremely complex. Now, the leading VMware expert on storage completely demystifies the "black box" of vSphere storage and provides illustrated, step-by-step procedures for performing every key task associated with it. You’ll gain the deep understanding you need to make better storage decisions, solve problems, and keep problems from occurring in the first place. Mostafa Khalil presents techniques based on years of personal experience helping customers troubleshoot storage in their vSphere production environments. With more experience than anyone else in the field, he combines expert guidelines, insights for better architectural design, best practices for both planning and management, common configuration details, and deep dives into both vSphere and third-party storage. Storage Implementation in vSphere® 5.0 fully explains each storage connectivity choice and protocol supported by VMware, introduces Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA), and shows how to build on PSA with multipathing, failover, and ALUA. It thoroughly introduces Storage Virtualization Devices (SVDs) and VMDirectPath I/O, and shows how to drive powerful improvements in performance, flexibility, and manageability with VMFS 5 and VAAI. COVERAGE INCLUDES <ul>
<li> Understanding how FC, FCoE, and iSCSI interact with VMware vSphere 5 </li>
<li> Implementing specific VMware capabilities on storage hardware from each leading vendor </li>
<li> Avoiding, recognizing, and fixing misconfigurations and other problems </li>
<li> Using third-party MPIO plug-ins certified with vSphere 5 and PSA </li>
<li> Maximizing availability through multipathing and failover </li>
<li> Implementing fixed and round-robin multipathing on arrays with ALUA support </li>
<li> Monitoring and optimizing virtual storage performance </li>
<li> Managing vSphere-compatible file systems: VMFS and NFS </li>
<li> Taking full advantage of VMDirectPath I/O </li>
<li> Implementing heterogeneous storage configurations </li>
<li> Presenting abstracted storage through virtual disks and Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) </li>
<li> Using VMFS 5 to simplify management and improve scalability in large-scale environments </li>
<li> Sharing storage and migrating more easily across multiple VMware vSphere instances </li>
<li> Optimizing storage performance with VAAI-compliant devices </li> </ul> Mostafa Khalil, Senior Staff Engineer with VMware Global Support Services, specializes in storage integration for virtual environments. He has worked for VMware for 13 years and supported all VMware virtualization products since Workstation for Linux 1.0 beta. Khalil has worked on most enterprise storage vendors’ solutions and received engineering-level training for many of them. He has presented at every VMworld, and at VMware Partner Exchange, VMware User Group, and USENIX. ISBN-13: 978-0-321-79993-7 ISBN-10: 0-321-79993-3

Storage Implementation in Vsphere 5.0: Technology Deep Dive

Khalil, Mostafa

VMware View 5 for the Desktop DELIVER HIGH-VALUE VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE AND A SUPERIOR USER EXPERIENCE Companies that have already realized the benefits of VMware server virtualization are now discovering that VMware View 5 offers equally powerful opportunities on the client side. VMware View 5 is a comprehensive enterprise-class solution. But, until now, crucial information about it has been scattered throughout dozens of technical documents. In VMware View 5, leading desktop virtualization expert Paul O’Doherty combines this critical information with deep insights and best practices from his extensive enterprise deployment experience. O’Doherty walks through every step, from the earliest planning phases through configuration, implementation, and management. He addresses important considerations ranging from changes to end-user experience through support and performance management. You’ll learn how to plan and smoothly stage virtual desktop infrastructure deployments, and avoid pitfalls associated with latency, scalability, storage, and networking. Whether you’re an architect, system administrator, or virtualization consultant, this guide’s proven techniques can help you dramatically improve IT productivity as you build environments that are far more flexible and easier to manage. COVERAGE INCLUDES <ul>
<li> Understanding the business value of desktop virtualization, and how VMware View delivers it </li> <li> Engaging end users in the process of delivering desktop services </li> <li> Using vSphere virtual infrastructure to add even more value to the virtual desktop </li> <li> Properly installing and configuring VMware View environments, including View Persona </li> <li> Virtualizing applications with ThinApp </li> <li> Building and tuning virtual desktops for optimal performance </li> <li> Managing ThinApp packages and pools in complex enterprise environments </li> <li> Protecting virtualized desktops against malware with VMware vShield EndPoint </li> <li> Delivering a rich, high-performance user experience </li> <li> Using Offline Desktops to serve tablets and other mobile devices </li> <li> Migrating from older versions of View </li> <li> Providing high availability and addressing single points of failure </li> <li> Monitoring and actively managing virtual desktops by integrating vCenter Operations Manager with VMware View Adapter </li> </ul>
 Paul O’Doherty is a Cloud Solution Manager at Onx.com, and has spent 20 years designing, implementing, and managing IT infrastructures in highly available computing environments. His experience with virtualization includes OS virtualization, storage virtualization, application virtualization, and WAN optimization. He holds numerous industry certifications, publishes reviews at virtualization.info, and maintains the popular virtualization site virtualguru.org.

VMware View 5: Building a Successful Virtual Desktop

O'doherty, Paul

The complete vCAT printed reference: knowledge, tools, and validated designs for building high-value vCloud® solutions The vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) brings together validated designs, tools, and knowledge for architecting, implementing, operating, and consuming modern vCloud infrastructure based on the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). vCAT has already helped hundreds of VMware customers succeed with vCloud. Now, pioneering VMware architect John Arrasjid has integrated essential vCAT information into a definitive printed guide, adding even more context and examples for successful planning and deployment. To do so, Arrasjid has distilled contributions from more than 100 VMware architects, consultants, administrators, engineers, project managers, and other technical leaders. VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) is your complete roadmap for using virtualization to simplify data centers and related IT infrastructure. You’ll find up-to-the-minute, field-proven insights for addressing a wide spectrum of challenges–from availability to interoperability, security to business continuity. Coverage includes <ul>
<li> vCAT design guidelines and patterns for efficiently architecting, operating, and consuming VMware cloud computing solutions </li> <li> Software-defined datacenter services for storage, networking, security, and availability </li> <li> People, process, and technology issues associated with effective vCloud operation and maintenance </li> <li> Efficient service consumption: consumption models, service catalogs, vApps, and service provider interactions </li> <li> Workflows to coordinate and automate task sequences, which extend beyond vCloud </li> <li> VMware vCloud Director® Server Resource Kit software tools </li> <li> Advanced “cloud bursting” and autoscaling techniques to dynamically leverage additional computing resources </li> <li> Planning and management of capacity, security, compliance, and disaster recovery </li> </ul>

Vmware Vcloud Architecture Toolkit Vcat: Technical and Operational Guidance for Cloud Success

VMware vCAT Team

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