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vSphere Virtual Machine Management
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Virtual Machine Concepts
vSphere virtual machines
Virtual machine components
Uses of virtual machines
The primary virtual machine resources
Virtual machine files
VMware Tools
Summary
Chapter 2. Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard
vSphere Client versus vSphere Web Client
Creating a VM using the typical configuration wizard
Creating a VM using the custom configuration wizard
Creating a VM using vSphere Web Client
Chapter 3. Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine
Configuring virtual machine customizations
Creating a virtual machine from a template
Creating a virtual machine by cloning
Creating a virtual machine from an OVF file
Creating a virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter
Chapter 4. Advanced Virtual Machine Settings
Introducing the virtual machine monitor
Enabling CPU hot plug / memory hot add
The CPUID mask
The CPU affinity setting
Setting the .vswp location
Viewing other advanced options
Installing VMware Tools
Chapter 5. Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps
What is a vApp?
Creating a vApp
vApp options
Exporting a vApp
Cloning a vApp
Chapter 6. Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation
Resource performance concepts
Understanding resource controls
Resource pools
Network I/O Control
Storage I/O Control
Disk alignment
Performance tuning
Chapter 7. Monitoring Virtual Machines
Performance charts
Using esxtop
Using alarms
Other places to find information
Chapter 8. Migrating Virtual Machines
vMotion
Migration using Storage vMotion
Cross-host Storage vMotion
Chapter 9. Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability
Clusters
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
High Availability
Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS)
Chapter 10. Virtual Machine Design
Comparing provisioning methods
Virtual hardware and resource configuration
Other considerations
Index
