VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

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Table of Contents
VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
Credits
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.5
Introduction
Downloading vCenter 5.5
How to do it...
Carrying out pre-upgrade checks
How to do it...
Checking ESXi host compatibility with vCenter
Running the VMware vCenter Host Agent Pre-Upgrade Checker
Checking database compatibility
Backing up SSL certificates
Enabling SSL certificate verification
Upgrading the Single Sign-On component
How to do it...
Upgrading the vSphere Web Client
How to do it...
There's more...
Upgrading the vCenter Inventory Service
How to do it...
Performing an upgrade of vCenter Server
How to do it...
Upgrading ESXi to Version 5.5
Getting ready
How to do it...
Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to Version 5.5
How to do it...
How it works...
Upgrading VMware Tools
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Upgrading the virtual machine hardware
Getting ready
How to do it...
Scheduling the virtual machine hardware upgrade
Getting ready
How to do it...
2. Performing a New Installation of vSphere 5.5
Introduction
Installing ESXi 5.5
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more...
See also
Configuring the ESXi Management Network
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more…
Installing vCenter 5.5
Getting ready
How to do it…
Creating a DSN for the SQL database for vCenter Server
Performing a new installation of vCenter Server
How it works…
Adding an additional Identity Source to the SSO server
How to do it…
How it works…
Assigning users/groups to the vCenter Server
Getting ready
How to do it…
Deploying SSO for the vCenter Linked Mode
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a vCenter Linked Mode group
Getting ready
How to do it...
Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 5.5
Getting ready
How to do it...
3. Using vSphere Host Profiles
Introduction
Preparing a reference host
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Host Profile
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Exporting a Host Profile
How to do it…
How it works…
Importing a Host Profile
How to do it…
How it works…
Duplicating a Host Profile
How to do it…
How it works…
Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile
How to do it…
Verifying the profile compliance of an ESXi host
How to do it…
How it works…
Remediating an ESXi host for profile compliance
How to do it…
Using Host Profiles to push a new configuration change
How to do it…
4. Using ESXi Image Builder
Introduction
vSphere Installation Bundle
Image profiles
Offline bundles
Downloading an ESXi offline bundle
How to do it...
Creating an image profile by cloning a predefined profile
How to do it...
Adding an ESXi software depot
Listing available image profiles
Cloning a predefined ESXi image profile to form a new one
How it works...
See also
Removing an ESXi image profile
How to do it...
How it works...
Adding a VIB (software package) to an image profile
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Adding the HA VIB to the image profile
How to do it...
Exporting an image profile as an ISO or offline bundle
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an image profile from scratch
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Applying an image profile to the host
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy
Introduction
vSphere Auto Deploy architecture
Preparing a vSphere environment for vSphere Auto Deploy
Installing an Auto Deploy server
How to do it…
Configuring a TFTP Server with Auto Deploy files
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Configuring the DHCP server for PXE boot
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Testing the PXE boot configuration
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Preparing VMware PowerCLI for first use
How to do it…
How it works…
Preparing vSphere Auto Deploy for provisioning
Adding a Software Depot
How to do it…
How it works…
Choosing an ESXi Image Profile to deploy
How to do it…
Creating a Host Profile
How to do it…
Creating a deploy rule
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Activating a deploy rule
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Testing Auto Deploy
How to do it…
How it works…
First boot
Subsequent boot
Enabling Stateless Caching
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Performing an Auto Deploy stateful install
How to do it…
How it works…
6. Configuring vSphere Networking
Introduction
Creating a vSphere Standard Switch
How to do it…
Using the vSphere Web Client
Using esxcli
How it works…
Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch
How to do it…
Using the vSphere Web Client
Using esxcli
Creating a VMkernel interface on a standard vSwitch
How to do it...
Using the vSphere Web Client
Using esxcli and esxcfg-vmknic
There's more…
See also
Deleting a port group from a standard vSwitch
Getting ready
How to do it...
Using the vSphere Web Client
Using esxcli
How it works…
Adding an uplink to a standard vSwitch
How to do it...
Using the vSphere Web Client
Using esxcfg-vswitch
Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a distributed port group
How to do it...
How it works...
Port binding
Port allocation
Network resource pools
Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
How to do it...
Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed
Switch
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works...
Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink
How to do it...
Using the vSphere Web Client
Using esxcfg-vswitch
How it works...
There's more…
Configuring security, traffic shaping, teaming and failover on a vSwitch and a VDS
How to do it…
On a standard vSwitch
On a VDS
How it works…
Security
Traffic shaping
Teaming and failover
Load balancing
Failover Detection and Failover Order
Migrating VMkernel interfaces between a standard vSwitch and VDS
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a VDS
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a backup of a VDS
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Restoring a VDS configuration
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Importing a VDS into the data center from a backup
How to do it…
How it works...
Creating Network Resource Pools on a VDS
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
System network resource pools
User-defined network resource pools
Enabling port mirroring on a VDS
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Enabling NetFlow on a VDS
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring private VLANs on a VDS
How to do it...
How it works…
7. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
Introduction
Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host
Getting ready
How to do it...
Using the vSphere Web Client to view the LUNs
Using the ESXi CLI to view the LUN information
How it works...
There's more...
Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi hosts
How to do it...
Using the vSphere Web Client to view the datastores
Using the ESXi CLI to view the datastores
Viewing and changing the multipathing of a LUN
How to do it...
Using the vSphere Web Client GUI
Using ESXi CLI
How it works...
There's more…
Creating a VMFS datastore
Getting ready
How to do it...
Using the New Datastore wizard
Using ESXi CLI to create a VMFS volume
There's more…
Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore
How to do it...
Using the Increase Datastore Capacity wizard
Using the ESXi CLI tool vmkfstools
How it works...
Extending a VMFS datastore
Getting ready
How to do it...
Using the Increase Datastore Capacity wizard
Using vmkfstools
How it works...
Unmounting a VMFS datastore
How to do it...
Using the vSphere Web Client GUI to unmount a datastore
Using the ESXi CLI tool "unmount"
Mounting a VMFS datastore
How to do it...
Using the vSphere Web Client UI to mount
Using esxcli to mount an unmounted volume
Deleting a VMFS datastore
How to do it...
Upgrading from VMFS3 to VMFS5
How to do it...
Upgrading the VMFS using the vSphere Web Client GUI
Upgrading using the ESXi CLI tool vmkfstools
How it works...
Mounting VMFS from a snapshot LUN
How to do it...
Using the New Datastore wizard
Using ESXi CLI
How it works...
Resignaturing VMFS on a snapshot LUN
How to do it...
Using the datastore wizard
Using ESXi CLI
How it works...
Masking paths to a LUN
How to do it...
Unmasking paths to a LUN
How to do it...
Creating a datastore cluster
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Enabling Storage DRS
How to do it...
How it works...
Initial placement
Balancing space utilization
Balancing I/O load
See also
8. Managing iSCSI and NFS Datastores
Introduction
Adding the software iSCSI adapter
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more…
Preparing the vSphere network for iSCSI multipathing
How to do it…
How it works…
Binding VMkernel interfaces to the software iSCSI adapter
How to do it...
There's more…
Adding an iSCSI target server to the software iSCSI adapter
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating an NFS Datastore
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
9. vSphere Storage Policies and Storage I/O Control
Introduction
Adding a storage provider
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Creating user-defined capability tags for datastores
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating VM storage policies
Getting ready
How to do it…
Assigning VM storage policies to virtual machine disks
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Enabling Storage I/O Control
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works...
See also
Modifying disk shares on a VM
How to do it...
How it works...
10. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
Introduction
Creating a virtual machine
How to do it...
Creating a new hard disk for a virtual machine
How to do it...
How it works...
Adding an existing hard disk to a virtual machine
How to do it...
How it works...
Attaching RDM to a virtual machine
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Mapping a virtual machine's vNIC to a different port group
How to do it...
How it works...
Adding a new virtual network adapter to a virtual machine
How to do it...
Creating a virtual machine snapshot
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Deleting a virtual machine snapshot
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Reverting to a current virtual machine snapshot
How to do it...
How it works...
Switching to an arbitrary virtual machine snapshot
How to do it...
How it works...
Consolidating snapshots
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Exporting a virtual machine
How to do it...
How it works...
11. Configuring vSphere HA
Introduction
Enabling vSphere HA on a cluster
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Configuring vSphere HA Admission Control
How to do it...
How it works...
See also
Setting the host isolation response for an HA cluster
How to do it...
See also
Setting the VM restart priority for an HA cluster
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring VM monitoring
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring datastore heartbeating
How to do it...
How it works...
Configuring a VM to override host monitoring and VM monitoring settings
How to do it...
How it works...
Disabling host monitoring
How to do it...
How it works...
12. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC
Introduction
Enabling vSphere DRS on a cluster
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Configuring VMware EVC
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Choosing a DRS automation level
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Overriding the cluster automation level for a VM
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Setting a migration threshold
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating DRS host groups
Getting ready
How to do it…
Creating DRS VM groups
How to do it…
Creating VMs to the host affinity rules
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating VM affinity/anti-affinity rules
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Configuring vSphere Distributed Power Management
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Enabling power management on a per-host level
Getting ready
How to do it…
13. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager
Introduction
Preparing database connectivity for VUM
How to do it…
How it works...
See also
Installing vSphere Update Manager
Getting ready
How to do it...
Installing the vSphere Update Manager plugin
How to do it...
Adding a download source
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a baseline
How to do it...
How it works...
Importing ESXi Images
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a host baseline group
How to do it...
Creating a VM and VA baseline group
How to do it...
Remediating a host or a cluster
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more…
Host maintenance mode options for remediation
Cluster maintenance mode options for remediation
Remediating a VM or a VA
How to do it...
How it works...
Staging patches
How to do it...
How it works...
Installing the Update Manager Download Service
How to do it...
Configuring UMDS and downloading data
How to do it...
Creating a shared repository
How to do it...
How it works...
Using a shared repository
How to do it...
14. Using vSphere Management Assistant
Introduction
Deploying the vMA appliance
Getting ready
How to do it…
Preparing VMware vMA for first use
How to do it…
How it works…
Configuring VMware vMA to join an existing domain
How to do it…
Adding vCenter to vMA with AD authentication
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Adding vCenter to vMA with fastpass (fpauth) authentication
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Adding an ESXi host to vMA
How to do it…
How it works…
Reconfiguring an added target server
How to do it…
Changing the authentication policy
Changing or recovering a user
How it works…
Running CLI commands on target servers
How to do it…
Method 1 – issuing commands on the default target
Method 2 – issuing commands by specifying a target server
Method 3 – issuing commands against a vCenter added as the target
Updating the vMA
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more...
15. Monitoring the Performance of a vSphere Environment
Introduction
Using esxtop to monitor performance
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Exporting and importing esxtop configurations
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Running esxtop in batch mode
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Gathering VM I/O statistics using vscsiStats
Getting ready
How to do it…
Using vCenter performance graphs
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Index