The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

Explore the benefits of VMware vSphere 6.7 to provide a powerful, flexible, and secure virtual infrastructure, and secure apps. Next, you'll pick up on how to enhance your infrastructure with high-performance storage access, such as remote direct memory access (RDMA) and Persistent

• Design, deploy and manage VMware vSphere virtual data centers
• Implement monitoring and security of VMware workloads with ease
• Explore tips and techniques for designing a robust virtual infrastructure

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware's industry-leading virtual cloud platform. By understanding how to manage, secure, and scale apps with vSphere 6.7, you can easily run even the most demanding of workloads. This Learning Path begins with an overview of the features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You'll learn how to plan and design a virtual infrastructure. You'll also gain insights into best practices to efficiently configure, manage, and secure apps. Next, you'll pick up on how to enhance your infrastructure with high-performance storage access, such as remote direct memory access (RDMA) and Persistent memory. The book will even guide you in securing your network with security features, such as encrypted vMotion and VM-level encryption. Finally, by learning how to apply Proactive High Availability and Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), you'll be able to achieve enhanced computing, storage, network, and management capabilities for your virtual data center.

By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run high workloads.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook - Third Edition by Mike Brown and Hersey Cartwright
• Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition by Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, and Paolo Valsecchi

• Understand how to patch, upgrade, and manage a virtual environment with vSphere 6.7
• Identify key factors related to a vSphere design
• Mitigate security risks and meet compliance requirements in a vSphere design
• Create a vSphere conceptual design by identifying technical and business requirements
• Map the logical resource design into the physical vSphere design
• Create professional vSphere design documentation

This Learning Path is for administrators, infrastructure engineers, consultants, and architects who want to design virtualized data center environments using VMware vSphere 6.x (or previous versions of vSphere and the supporting components). Basic knowledge of VMware vSphere is required to get the most out of this Learning Path.

1. The Virtual Data Center
2. The Discovery Process
3. The Design Factors
4. vSphere Management Design
5. vSphere Storage Design
6. vSphere Network Design
7. vSphere Compute Design
8. vSphere Physical Design
9. Virtual Machine Design
10. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation
11. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7
12. Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading
13. VM Deployment and Management
14. VM Resource Management
15. Availability and Disaster Recovery
16. Securing and Protecting Your Environment
17. Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment
18. Troubleshooting Your Environment
19. Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab