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VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Conventions
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Chapter 1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.5
Introduction
Downloading vCenter 5.5
Carrying out pre-upgrade checks
Upgrading the Single Sign-On component
Upgrading the vSphere Web Client
Upgrading the vCenter Inventory Service
Performing an upgrade of vCenter Server
Upgrading ESXi to Version 5.5
Upgrading vCenter Server Appliance to Version 5.5
Upgrading VMware Tools
Upgrading the virtual machine hardware
Scheduling the virtual machine hardware upgrade
Chapter 2. Performing a New Installation of vSphere 5.5
Installing ESXi 5.5
Configuring the ESXi Management Network
Installing vCenter 5.5
Adding an additional Identity Source to the SSO server
Assigning users/groups to the vCenter Server
Deploying SSO for the vCenter Linked Mode
Creating a vCenter Linked Mode group
Deploying vCenter Server Appliance 5.5
Chapter 3. Using vSphere Host Profiles
Preparing a reference host
Creating a Host Profile
Exporting a Host Profile
Importing a Host Profile
Duplicating a Host Profile
Attaching/detaching ESXi hosts to/from a Host Profile
Verifying the profile compliance of an ESXi host
Remediating an ESXi host for profile compliance
Using Host Profiles to push a new configuration change
Chapter 4. Using ESXi Image Builder
Downloading an ESXi offline bundle
Creating an image profile by cloning a predefined profile
Removing an ESXi image profile
Adding a VIB (software package) to an image profile
Adding the HA VIB to the 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. Using vSphere Auto Deploy
Installing an 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
Preparing vSphere Auto Deploy for provisioning
Choosing an ESXi Image Profile to deploy
Creating a deploy rule
Activating a deploy rule
Testing Auto Deploy
Enabling Stateless Caching
Performing an Auto Deploy stateful install
Chapter 6. Configuring vSphere Networking
Creating a vSphere Standard Switch
Deleting a vSphere Standard Switch
Creating a VMkernel interface on a standard vSwitch
Deleting a port group from a standard vSwitch
Adding an uplink to a standard vSwitch
Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch
Creating a distributed port group
Adding hosts to a vSphere Distributed Switch
Migrating a virtual machine network from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch
Mapping a physical adapter (vmnic) to a dvUplink
Configuring security traffic shaping teaming and failover on a vSwitch and a VDS
Migrating VMkernel interfaces between a standard vSwitch and VDS
Creating additional VMkernel interfaces on a VDS
Creating a backup of a VDS
Restoring a VDS configuration
Importing a VDS into the data center from a backup
Creating Network Resource Pools on a VDS
Enabling port mirroring on a VDS
Enabling NetFlow on a VDS
Configuring private VLANs on a VDS
Chapter 7. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host
Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi hosts
