VMware vSphere 4 Implementation

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VMware vSphere 4 Implementation:
by Mike Laverick

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Real-world VMware vSphere4 tips and techniques

Written by internationally recognized VMware expert Mike Laverick, this is an in-depth implementation guide to VMware's new suite of virtualization technologies, vSphere4. The book provides best practices for deploying the vSphere product in real-world enterprise environments. You will get insider tips for planning, designing, implementing, and securing a virtual infrastructure and automating tasks and procedures.

Table of contents

Introduction

1 Installing ESX 4 Classic

2 Installing ESX 4i

3 Installing vCenter

4 Standard Networking

5 Distributed Viral Networking (DVN)

6 Storage

7 Create and Modify VMs

8 Rapid VM

9 Access Control

10 Resource Monitoring

11 Resource Management

12 VMotion, Storage VMotion and Cold Migration

13 Vmware Distributed Resource

14 Vmware Distributed Power Management

15 Vmware High Availability

16 Vmware Fault-Tolearance (FT)

17 vSphere Advanced Configuration Tools

18 Vmware View (VDI) Jumpstart

19 Virtual Machine Backup

20 Vmware Patch Management

21 Upgrading from Vi3.5 to vSphere 4

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Page Count: 659
ISBN10: 0071664521
ISBN13: 9780071664523
Cover: Paperback
Media: None
Pub Date: 01/24/2010