Mastering VMware Infrastructure 3 (Mastering)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 576 pages
• Published by: Sybex May 19, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470183136
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470183137
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Description
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), by applying the step-by-step instructions in Mastering VMware® Infrastructure 3. Packed with the technical details, best practices, and how-tos you need to install, configure, and run a virtual infrastructure at maximum efficiency, this guide is comprehensive and essential. 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.

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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

Reader Reviews
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.