
To make the most of VMware's vSphere 5, IT professionals need knowledge, tips, and insights they'll never find in the manuals - or in any book, until now! In Managing and Optimizing vSphere Deployments, two world-class VMware experts offer start-to-finish lessons for vSphere planning, implementation, operation, management, and troubleshooting: expert insights drawn from their own unsurpassed "in-the-trenches" consulting experience.
Harley Stagner (VCDX,vExpert) and Sean Crookston (VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD, vExpert) focus on the most crucial techniques VMware professionals need, providing guidance optimized for the new vSphere 5, and frameworks that will support the evolution of virtual infrastructure for years to come. They present scenarios and case studies drawn from real-world data, addressing areas ranging from sizing and performance to redundancy, coverage includes:
- Smoothly integrating vSphere 5 into current environments and considerations
- Overcoming roadblocks to 100% virtualization
- Establishing a more stable infrastructure
- Choosing hardware and making optimal configuration decisions
- Automating tasks with PowerCLI, Host Profiles, and Auto Deploy
- Maximizing availability with Distributed Resource Scheduler, Networking Redundancy, and Fault Tolerance
- Efficiently managing updates, patches, and upgrades * Monitoring vSphere 5 with tools provided by VMware and its community
- Planning for growth, and much more.