Eric Sloof

This book is intended for system administrators who are planning a VMware vSphere 6.0 deployment and want to maximize its performance. The book assumes the reader is already familiar with VMware vSphere concepts and terminology

Default firewall settings apply to traffic that does not match any of the user-defined firewall rules. The default Edge firewall policy blocks all incoming traffic. You can change the default action and logging settings.

You can add an NSX Edge firewall rule for traffic flowing from or to an NSX Edge interface or IP address group. You can add multiple NSX Edge interfaces and/or IP address groups as the source and destination for firewall rules.

This free eLearning course on EVO:RAIL provides an overview on EVO:RAIL and explains its features and benefits. The course will also describe the deployment, configuration, and management of EVO:RAIL in a software-defined data center (SDDC). Objectives, at the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Explain the primary purpose of EVO:RAIL.
• Explain the initial deployment of EVO:RAIL.
• Explain the process of managing a virtual machine through the EVO:RAIL management console. 

Jim Yanik, End-User Computing Architect at VMware, presents a technical overview of VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon.

vSphere network I/O control version 3, available in vSphere 6.0, offers granular network resource reservation and allocation across the entire switch.

VMware customers love the simplicity, performance, and integration of VMware Virtual SAN since its launch. Most customers choose to evaluate Virtual SAN before using it for production – always a good idea.


VMware has made a list of issues occasionally encountered as people go through this process. Follow this guide, and you’ll have a great evaluation.

vRealize Operations is the ultrasound of your datacenter. Without proactive monitoring tools, we can only analyze what is on the surface, which means we typically respond to IT system issues only after there is a major incident. When we have vRealize Operations, it gives us a set of tools that helps us analyze the health, risk, and efficiency of our environment. 

Using a tool like vRealize Operations can assure that you are getting the most out of your VMware vSphere investments by providing proactive insight into the operations of your datacenter. Additionally, It provides capacity planning and trending into your data center environment, and helps ensure you have the required resources to meet the business demand.

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VMware NSX-v network virtualization solution addresses current challenges with physical network infrastructure and brings flexibility, agility and scale through VXLAN-based logical networks.

Along with the ability to create on-demand logical networks using VXLAN, the NSX Edge Services Gateway helps users deploy various logical network services such as firewall, DHCP, NAT and load balancing on these networks.

This is possible due to its ability to decouple the virtual network from the physical network and then reproduce the properties and services in the virtual environment.


In brownfield environments NSX can provide programmatic connectivity via L2 bridging or L3 routing and service insertion of existing physical services such as Load-Balancers and Firewalls, so such legacy services can be integrated and consumed by NSX Logical Networks.

As described in this document, in such brownfield environments NSX functionality can be incrementally introduced to meet di‘fferent customer requirements and use-cases.

vCenter Converter supports many source physical machines, including Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Server and Linux. It also supports third-party disk images from Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual Server and Virtual PC; Parallels Desktop; Symantec System Recovery; Norton Ghost; Acronis and StorageCraft.

• Multiple simultaneous conversions enable large-scale virtualization implementations.
• Quiescing and snapshotting of the guest operating system on the source machine before migrating the data ensures conversion reliability.
• Hot cloning makes conversions non-disruptive, with no source server downtime or reboot.
• Sector-based copying enhances cloning and conversion speed.
• Multiple simultaneous conversions enable large-scale virtualization implementations.
• Centralized management console allows users to queue up and monitor multiple simultaneous remote, as well as local, conversions.
• Easy-to-use wizards minimize the number of steps to conversion.
• Support for both local and remote cloning enables conversions in remote locations such as branch offices.

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This paper describes best practices for planning a VMware Mirage deployment. It addresses the primary phases of a Mirage deployment, including sizing, design, and the gathering of environmental data.

The intended audience includes IT administrators, design architects, and managers who are familiar with Windows data center technologies such as Active Directory, SQL, and Microsoft Management Console (MMC).