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封面
版权信息
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Chapter 1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.1
Introduction
Carrying out pre-upgrade checks before performing a vCenter upgrade
Performing an in-place upgrade of vCenter Server
Creating a table space for SSO on a SQL instance
Creating DB users for the SSO database
Upgrading a 32-bit vCenter Server to vCenter 5.1
Upgrading to ESXi 5.1
Installing vSphere Web Client
Upgrading VMware Tools
Upgrading the virtual machine hardware
Chapter 2. Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1
Installing vCenter 5.1
Deploying a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)
Preparing vCenter Server Appliance for first use
Installing the vCenter Server Appliance update
Upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance
Installing ESXi 5.1
Performing a scripted install of the ESXi server
Chapter 3. vSphere Auto Deploy
Installing the Auto Deploy server
Configuring a TFTP server with Auto Deploy files
Configuring the DHCP server for PXE boot
Testing the PXE boot configuration
Preparing VMware PowerCLI for first use
Downloading an ESXi Offline Bundle
Adding the Offline Bundle to the Auto Deploy server
Choosing an ESXi Image to deploy
Creating a Host Profile
Creating a deploy rule
Activating a deploy rule
Testing Auto Deploy
Enabling Stateless Caching
Performing an Auto Deploy stateful install
Chapter 4. ESXi Image Builder
Creating an Image Profile by cloning an existing one
Removing an Image Profile
Adding a VIB (software package) to an Image Profile
Exporting an Image Profile as an ISO or Offline Bundle
Creating an Image Profile from scratch
Applying an Image Profile to the host
Chapter 5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host
Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi host
Viewing the multipathing information of a LUN
Creating a VMFS datastore
Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore
Extending a VMFS datastore
Unmounting a VMFS datastore
Mounting a VMFS datastore
Deleting a VMFS datastore
Upgrading VMFS-3 to VMFS-5
Mounting VMFS on a snapshot LUN
Resignaturing VMFS on a snapshot LUN
Masking paths to a LUN
Unmasking paths to a LUN
Creating a datastore cluster
Enabling Storage DRS
Chapter 6. Managing iSCSI and NFS Storage
Adding the software iSCSI adapter
Creating a new VMkernel interface for iSCSI or NFS
Preparing the vSphere network for iSCSI multipathing
Binding VMkernel interfaces to the software iSCSI adapter
Adding an iSCSI target server to the software iSCSI adapter
Creating an NFS datastore
Chapter 7. Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control
Adding a storage provider
Creating user-defined storage capabilities
Mapping user-defined storage capabilities to datastores
Creating a VM storage profile and enabling it
Assigning storage profiles to virtual machine disks and checking compliance
Enabling Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
Modifying disk shares on a VM
Chapter 8. Configuring the vSphere Network
Creating a vSphere Standard Switch
Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch
Creating a VMkernel interface on a vSphere Standard Switch
Deleting a port group
Adding an uplink to a vSphere Standard Switch
Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch
Creating a distributed port group
Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink
Migrating virtual machine network from vSphere Standard Switch to vSphere Distributed Switch
Migrating management and VMkernel interfaces between vSphere Standard and Distributed Switches
Creating a VMkernel interface on a vSphere Distributed Switch
