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To make the most of VMware's vSphere 5, IT professionals need knowledge, tips, and insights they'll never find in the manuals - or in any book, until now! In Managing and Optimizing vSphere Deployments, two world-class VMware experts offer start-to-finish lessons for vSphere planning, implementation, operation, management, and troubleshooting: expert insights drawn from their own unsurpassed "in-the-trenches" consulting experience.

Harley Stagner (VCDX,vExpert) and Sean Crookston (VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD, vExpert) focus on the most crucial techniques VMware professionals need, providing guidance optimized for the new vSphere 5, and frameworks that will support the evolution of virtual infrastructure for years to come. They present scenarios and case studies drawn from real-world data, addressing areas ranging from sizing and performance to redundancy, coverage includes: 

• Smoothly integrating vSphere 5 into current environments and considerations 
• Overcoming roadblocks to 100% virtualization 
• Establishing a more stable infrastructure 
• Choosing hardware and making optimal configuration decisions 
• Automating tasks with PowerCLI, Host Profiles, and Auto Deploy 
• Maximizing availability with Distributed Resource Scheduler, Networking Redundancy, and Fault Tolerance 
• Efficiently managing updates, patches, and upgrades * Monitoring vSphere 5 with tools provided by VMware and its community 
• Planning for growth, and much more.
  
  

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If you want to gain insight into the real-world uses of VMware ESXi, this cookbook provides scores of step-by-step solutions for working with this product in a wide range of network environments. You'll not only learn the basics—how to pool resources from hardware servers, computer clusters, networks, and storage, and then distribute them among virtual machines—but also the stumbling blocks you'll encounter when you monitor systems, troubleshoot problems, and deal with security.

Written by experts with experience using VMware in a production environment, VMware Cookbook shares tips and tricks earned through trial and error, and supplies the background information you need to apply them.

• Follow best practices for installing VMware and vSphere in your environment
• Discover how to secure and monitor your network
• Understand disk, SSD, and SAN storage implementation and configuration
• Get solutions for using vCloud Director and vShield
• Configure logical and physical networks
• Learn how to clone and migrate servers
• Gain valuable tips for configuration and fine-tuning
• Use the distributed resource scheduler, shares, and resource pools to learn resource management