Prize Giveaway – 5 Lucky Winners : Like VMware Arena and Win a 334 Pages E-book “VMware ESXi Cookbook”

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VMware Arena happy to announce the giveaway of 334 pages E-book “VMware ESXi Cookbook” which is written by Me and Aranvind Sivaraman. Thanks to packt publications who is giving away this book to 5 lucky winners. Simply what you need to you do is just a one like for VMware Arena’s Home Page will put you in the list of lucky winners. I would like to thank packt publications for giving me this opportunity to author this book. I would like to thank my family and friends who supported me during this tenure. This will open till 31-May-2014. Hurry up  and be the lucky winner.

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What you will learn from this book:

  • Install and configure ESXi using Various installation procedures
  • Understand the installation and configuration of the vCenter virtual appliance along with advanced vCenter server options
  • Configure the network for a virtual infrastructure using standard switch and distributed switch.
  • Configure various network policies and the private VLAN using vSphere web client
  • Implement and configure various storage options and optimize storage using storage I/O control and storage profiles
  • Create and configure various clusters including high availability(HA), distributed resource scheduler (DRS), dynamic power management (DPM), and storage DRS
  • Provision and manage virtual machines, configure fault tolerance for VMs, and understand the methods to use the snapshot, template, and clone tools
  • Secure ESXi hosts using firewall, configure AD authentication, and strengthen the security for virtual machines
  • Understand how to view performance graphs and export the graph for future reference Configure vCenter alarms and export logs for troubleshooting
  • Learn the installation steps of the update manager and upgrade the ESXi host and virtual machine using update manager

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Installing and Configuring ESXi
Chapter 2: Installing and Using vCenter
Chapter 3: Networking
Chapter 4: Storage
Chapter 5: Resource Management and High Availability
Chapter 6: Managing Virtual Machines
Chapter 7: Securing the ESXi Server and Virtual Machines
Chapter 8: Performance Monitoring and Alerts
Chapter 9: vSphere Update Manager

 

Chapter 1: Installing and Configuring ESXi
Introduction
Installing ESXi using Interactive Mode
Deploying ESXi hosts using scripted installation
Deploying ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy
Installing vSphere Client
Configuring NTP settings on the ESXi host
Configuring DNS and Routing
Licensing an ESXi host

Chapter 2: Installing and Using vCenter
Introduction
Installing vCenter SSO
Installing VMware vCenter
Installing vSphere Web Client
Installing vSphere Auto Deploy
Working with the vCenter inventory objects
Configuring the vCenter Server settings
Working with tags
Using schedule tasks
Managing the plug-ins in vCenter
Deploying the VMware vCenter Server Appliance

Chapter 3: Networking
Introduction
Creating and deleting VM network port groups
Creating VMkernel port groups
Modifying vSwitch properties
Working with vSphere Distributed Switches
Configuring Private VLANs (PVLAN)
Working with advanced networking
Enabling jumbo frames
Configuring network policies

Chapter 4: Storage
Introduction
Implementing the iSCSI storage
Implementing FC and FCoE storages
Configuring Raw Device Mapping
Managing VMFS and NFS datastores
Configuring the storage profiles of a virtual machine

Chapter 5: Resource Management and High Availability
Introduction
Preparing hosts for vMotion
Implementing resource pools
Implementing Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Implementing Distributed Power Management (DPM)
Implementing High Availability (HA)
Implementing Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduling (SDRS)
Chapter 6: Managing Virtual Machines
Introduction
Deploying virtual machines
Installing and customizing a guest operating system
Configuring the ESXi host and VM for Fault Tolerance
Configuring virtual machine hardware
Configuring virtual machine’s options
Creating snapshots, templates, and clones
Chapter 7: Securing the ESXi Server and Virtual Machines
Introduction
Configuring the ESXi firewall
Enabling Lockdown mode
Managing ESXi authentication
Managing ESXi certificates
Configuring logging for virtual machines
Configuring security settings for virtual machines
Chapter 8: Performance Monitoring and Alerts
Introduction
Running vCenter performance monitoring graphs
Configuring SNMP for ESXi and vCenter
Running performance monitoring using ESXTOP
Configuring vCenter alarms
Managing log files
Chapter 9: vSphere Update Manager
Introduction
Installing Update Manager
Configuring Update Manager
Creating and managing baselines
Scanning and remediating vSphere objects
Configuring UMDS

Lucky winners will be announced on June 3 and book will be send to them with the email address by packt publications. Thanks for supporting my website.