VMware vCenter cookbook : over 65 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently manage your vSphere environment with VMware vCenter / Konstantin Kuminsky ; foreword by Michael Bauer.

Online resource; title from cover (Safari, viewed June 17, 2015).

Includes index.

"Quick answers to common problems."

Print version record.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: vCenter Basic Tasks and Features; Introduction; Choosing the right vSphere and vCenter editions; Booting a VM from a virtual CD-ROM; Using hosts with different CPUs in one cluster; Fixing VMware tools to autostart after Linux updates; Running vCenter on a VM; Managing several vCenter servers from one client; Accessing new vCenter features; Accessing hosts via SSH; Securing host management access; Storing host logs on a shared datastore

Configuring remote loggingChapter 2: Increasing Environment Availability; Introduction; Configuring the HA feature; Prioritizing VMs for recovery; Tuning up vSphere HA; Ensuring 100 percent uptime for critical VMs; Protecting host redundancy for equally sized hosts; Protecting host redundancy for significantly different hosts; Protecting host redundancy with failover hosts; Backing up/restoring .vmdk files; Restoring VM backup without vCenter; Configuring the backup retention policy; Protecting the vCenter VM; Chapter 3: Increasing Environment Scalability; Introduction

Delivering new VMs faster with templatesDelivering new VMs faster with customizations; Troubleshooting customizations; Keeping templates up to date; Utilizing host local storage; Automating VM deployments; Deploying new hosts faster with scripted installation; Deploying new hosts faster with auto deploy; Keeping host configuration consistent; Increasing a VM's RAM and CPU online; Chapter 4: Improving Environment Efficiency; Introduction; Meeting higher I/O needs with the VMware Paravirtual controller; Improving network performance with the VMXNET 3 network adapter; Using new virtual hardware

Controlling storage space used by virtual disksManaging the space used by snapshots; Improving host productivity with Flash Read Cache; Speeding up VMs with Flash Read Cache; Optimizing host power consumption; Considering NUMA when configuring RAM; vCPU versus pCPU and time slots; Chapter 5: Optimizing Resource Usage; Introduction; Prioritizing VMs with shares; Ensuring VMs have enough resources to run; Limiting resources used by VMs; Grouping VMs by resource usage; Balancing loads between hosts; Balancing loads between datastores; Configuring storage load balancing thresholds

Limiting VM storage I/O consumptionLimiting VM network I/O consumption; Chapter 6: Basic Administrative Tasks; Introduction; Improving visibility with email alerts; Controlling the space used by snapshots; Controlling datastore space utilization; Automating VM placement with storage profiles; Automating VM placement with VM affinity; Automating VM placement with storage affinity; Automating tasks with a scheduler; Keeping hosts up to date; Chapter 7: Improving Environment Manageability; Introduction; Categorizing objects in the environment; Scheduling the VM clone

If you are a system administrator who has some experience with virtualization and already uses VMware vCenter, but wishes to learn more, then this is the book for you. If you are looking for tips or shortcuts for common administration tasks as well as workarounds for pain points in vSphere administration, you'll find this guide useful.

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