Mastering VMware Infrastructure 3 (Mastering) | 
| Author: Chris Mccain
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
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Pages: 554
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0470183136
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.43
EAN: 9780470183137
Publication Date: May 19, 2008
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Product Description
Transform your IT infrastructure without extra hardware
Cut hardware costs, expand your capacity, and manage an entire fleet of virtual machines in your enterprise with the leading virtualization solution, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3), and the step-by-step instruction in this must-have guide. This essential book is packed with the technical details, best practices, and how-tos you need to install, configure, and run a virtual infrastructure at maximum efficiency. You'll learn how to create and manage virtual networks and machines, configure every product in the VI3 suite, monitor resources and performance, maintain security, and much more.
Coverage includes:
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Installing and configuring the VI3 product suite, including ESX Server 3.5and ESXi, Virtual Center 2.0, VMotion, and VMware Consolidated Backup
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Creating and managing virtual networks and setting virtual switch security
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Configuring and managing storage devices, including iSCSI, NAS/NFS, and fiber channel storage
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Setting up and deploying virtual machines, including guest operating systems
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Migrating machines, from virtual to virtual and from physical to virtual
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Allocating CPU and memory and monitoring resource usage
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Backing up, restoring, and securing virtual machines and infrastructures
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Managing resource utilization with VMotion and DRS
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Managing host and virtual machine updates with VMware Update Manager
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Setting up and deploying virtual machines and guest operating systems
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Performing physical to virtual and virtual to virtual migrations using VMware Converter
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Implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans with VMware HA and VCB
Run 2 to 2,000 Virtual Servers with VI3's Robust, Scalable Tools
Partition Even Mission-Critical Physical Servers into Virtual Ones
Expand Your IT Capacity without Extra Hardware
Follow Best Practices for Monitoring Access and Protecting Data
Reinforce Your Skills with Real-World Examples
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Mastering VI3 rocks!! June 25, 2008
Over the course of several years and having read many in depth technical books pertaining to VMware's ESX and VI. I would have to say that this book is by far the best I have read. The author has done a stellar job at making the book easy to read and absorb at all levels. In addition the author really drives home the point he is trying to make in all of the topics covered. Great job Chris!! Keep up the good work.
It's a great title June 24, 2008
I don't even start reading the book but just jumping from one page to another i find solution to lot of problems and mistakes that i made at designing my data center. It just th begining!...
Comprehensive; Meticulous; In Depth; and Worth It. May 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a computing architect/engineer, I have cover-to-cover read many books
over my career. Part of my job is also to write detailed step-by-step
technical documentation for work I have done. With that as preamble, I'd
like to say that this book is extremely well written. You can tell
the author endeavored to give the complete story of the VI3 suite without
sacrificing the deep detail for each component. He succeeded. Not long
before I read Chris McCain's book, I participated in a 5 day (12hrs/day)
deeply intensive VMWare course covering the same VI3 material. I'm not
a fan of crash/boot-camp type courses, but this one was an exceptionally
thorough/good one. Well, you can pretty much replace that intensive
course with the contents of the "Mastering VMware Infrastructure 3"
book and one (and preferably two) servers qualified for ESX use. Almost
every aspect of VI3 that could be neatly partitioned off into its
own chapter and thoroughly treated, was in this book. Chapters either
cover a VI3 component and/or covers a real world best-practice use
of it. There is little hand-waiving in this book; and if you enjoy the
UNIX CLI way of doing things, as I do, you'll also appreciate the
ESX commands that are peppered throughout the book to
complement/supplement the UI screen shots. Job well done. Highly
recommended.
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