IndexNote to the Reader: Throughout this index boldfaced page numbers indicate primary discussions of a topic. Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations.

AAAA model, 432AAM (Automated Availability Manager), 394acceleration

block zeroing, 315full copy, 315VAAI, 654

Acceleration Kits, 21accepteula command, 35access control lists (ACLs), 445access ports in VLANs, 180, 203access to hosts, 438–446, 442–445accounting in AAA model, 432ACLs (access control lists), 445Actions tab for alarms, 675activation

iSCSI initiators, 330–333, 331–333VMs, 508–509

active-active storage systems, 284–286Active Directory

integration, 437–438permissions for, 464–465SSO with, 461–462on virtual appliances, 463–465vRO, 739–740

Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), 86Active LACP mode, 255active-passive storage systems, 284–285adapters

CNAs, 28, 294Distributed Switches, 241–247, 77 242–246HBAs, 287LACP, 257, 257SCSI, 483virtual, 363–365, 364

adaptive schemes in storage design, 374Add And Manage Hosts wizard

adapters, 242–244, 242–244Distributed Switches, 227–229, 227–228

Add-DeployRule cmdlet, 43–44Add-EsxSoftwareDepot command, 42–43Add Host Wizard, 98–99, 99, 1079

Add Networking wizard, 194, 206, 242–243Add New Role dialog box, 449, 449Add New User dialog box, 433–434Add Physical Adapters To the Switch dialog box,

209, 210Add Send Target Server dialog box, 332Add Storage Adapter dialog box, 330–333,

331–333Add Storage dialog box, 658Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), 380--addvmportgroup parameter, 36administration, vSphere Client, 60–61Administration settings, 119–121Administrators

description, 448passwords, 536vCenter Server, 467–469

Admission Control and Admission ControlPolicy settings, 400–403, 402

Advanced IP Allocation dialog box, 560, 561Advanced layout in performance graphs,

683–684, 683–684Advanced Options (HA) dialog box, 408Advanced Runtime Info dialog box, 413Advanced settings

NFS datastores, 351, 352vCenter Server, 106, 119

Advanced System Settings section in vCenter Server, 105

affi nityCPU, 585, 588–589DRS

creating, 646–647host, 648–651, 649–652

Agent VM settings, 104agents

HA, 394–395host, 471vCenter Server, 104VM, 104

aggregate capacity, 10AHCI adapters, 363

COPYRIG

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ATERIAL

780 | ALARM SETTINGS DIALOG BOX • AUTOMATION

Alarm Settings dialog box, 673alarms

creating, 672–679, 9 674, 678managing, 679–680, 679–680overview, 670–671range and frequency, 676–679, 9 678resource consumption, 672–675, 674scopes, 672SDRS, 660, 660vCenter Server, 471

Alarms and Work in Progress column, 93Alarms privilege, 471aligning

virtual disks, 360–361VM fi lesystems, 523

All Issues section, 102–103all paths down (APD) events, 397Allocate Space For Host Cache option, 614allocation. See resource allocationAllow Connections From Any IP Address

setting, 443ALUA (Asymmetric Logical Unit Access), 285,

309–310anti-affi nity rules, 648APD (all paths down) events, 397APIs

storage devices, 314–318, 316–317VADP, 15, 420–422vCenter Server, 62

Append A Numeric Value To Ensure Uniquenessoption, 535

Application layer in HA, 377, 37877arbitrated loop (FC-AL) Fibre Channel, 288ARP (Address Resolution Protocol), 380arrays

architectures, 275–277auto-tiering, 605data protection, 423midrange and enterprise, 284–286RAID, 277–281, 278–279, 9 281thin provisioning, 369–370

Assign A New Signature option, 345Assign Permissions dialog box, 450–451, 451assigning

storage I/O shares, 608–610, 609VMFS datastore capability, 341–342, 342

Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA), 285, 309–310

asymmetric storage systems, 285asynchronous replication, 424atomic test and set (ATS), 314–315Attach Baseline Or Group dialog box, 149–150,

149attaching baselines, 148–151, 149–151authentication

in AAA model, 432Active Directory integration, 437–438CHAP, 296–297local users and groups, 433–437, 77 435–436overview, 432–433in security model, 447vCenter Server, 56–58, 105, 461–465vRO, 738–740vSphere Client, 59VUM, 132

Authentication Proxy tool, 177Authentication Services setting, 105Authoring settings for vApps, 560, 561authorization in AAA model, 432Auto Deploy, 39–40, 41, 177

image profi les, 42–43privileges, 471rules, 43–45, 44server installation, 41, 42Stateful mode, 46–47Stateless Caching mode, 45–46, 46TFTP and DHCP confi guration, 41–42

auto-tiering arrays, 605Automated Availability Manager (AAM), 394automatic rollbacks, 232–233Automatically Log On As The Administrator

option, 536Automatically Select Datastores Accessible From

The Host option, 410automation, 707

benefi ts, 707–708DRS behavior, 643–644, 643options, 708–709, 9 708Perl, 731–734PowerCLI. See PowerCLISDRS settings, 659–661, 659–661vCenter, 729–731vCLI, 726–729VM restart, 392, 393workfl ows. See vRealize Orchestrator

(vRO)

AUTOPLAY DIALOG BOX • CLONE TO TEMPLATE OPTION | 781

AutoPlay dialog box, 510AutoRun dialog box, 511availability. See High Availability (HA)Average Bandwidth value, 219–220

Bbackend databases in vCenter Server, 66, 73

ODBC DSN, 77–79Oracle, 73–75SQL Server, 75–77, 77 76

backupscertifi cates, 459cross vCenter vMotion, 641before upgrades, 164VMs, 420–422, 420

ballooning, memory, 572–573bandwidth

array storage, 277NFS datastores, 353traffi c shaping, 219–220, 220

bare-metal hypervisors, 4baselines

upgrade, 162–166, 165VUM, 139–140

attaching, 148–151, 149–151creating, 144–148, 145–147

Baselines And Groups settings, 139, 9 139beacon-probing failover-detection, 215, 216bidirectional CHAP, 296Bind With VMkernel Network Adapter dialog

box, 331, 332bitmaps in vMotion, 619–621, 620–621block sizes in VMFS, 306block zeroing, 315blue screen of death (BSOD), 170boot options for unattended installation, 37–38--bootproto parameter, 36boundaries in vMotion, 629Browse option for VMs, 497BSOD (blue screen of death), 170built-in alarms, 678built-in roles, 470Burst Size value, 219–220business continuity, 419–420

data protection, 420–424, 420disaster recovery, 423–424

BusLogic controllers, 363–364

CCAB fi les, copying, 533cache memory, 276capabilities

PowerCLI, 715, 722–726storage devices, 269, 341–342, 342

capacity of storage devices, 302, 370–371, 373–374Capacity Planner, 499–500capturing performance data, 694–695CBT (Changed Block Tracking), 421CD/DVD drives, 483CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol), 249–250CEE (Converged Enhanced Ethernet), 293Certifi cate Manager, 459–461, 460Certifi cate Revocation Lists (CRLs), 458certifi cate stores, 457–459certifi cates

replacing, 457vCenter Server, 91, 105vRO, 742

Certifi cates privilege, 471Challenge Authentication Protocol (CHAP),

296–297Change EVC Mode dialog box, 632–633, 632–634Changed Block Tracking (CBT), 421CHAP (Challenge Authentication Protocol),

296–297Chart Options dialog box, 684–685, 684

CPU usage, 685, 696–698disk usage, 703–704memory, 686, 699–700network usage, 701–702settings, 690

charts. See graphs, performanceCheck Imbalances Every setting, 662CIM (Common Information Management), 41Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), 249–250Cisco Nexus 1000V switch, 259Cisco switches, 219CLI access control, 438–446Client, 7–8

authentication, 59mapping to optical disks, 504post-installation, 47–49, 9 48

Clone Existing Virtual Machine Wizard, 538–540, 539

Clone To Template option, 541–542

782 | CLONE VAPP WIZARD • CPUS

Clone vApp Wizard, 564cloning

vApps, 563–564VMs, 71, 71

overview, 531–532steps, 538–541, 539–540to templates, 543–544, 543

cluster across boxes, 382failover clusters, 389–390fi rst cluster nodes, 385–388, 386–388overview, 383–385, 384second cluster nodes, 388–389

cluster in a box, 381, 383, 383clusters, 378–379

CPU affi nity, 588datastore, 654–658, 655–658DRS. See Distributed Resource Scheduler

(DRS)EVC, 631–633, 631–634HA, 411, 412NLB, 379–380, 380remediation, 157, 157retrieving hosts in, 732–734unbalanced, 403vCenter Server, 100WFC. See Windows Failover Clustering

(WFC)cmdlets, 710, 716–717CNAs (converged network adapters), 28, 294command-line options, 195Common Information Management (CIM), 41community VLANs, 252compatibility

PowerCLI, 715–716vMotion, 629–634, 631–634

Compatibility Guide, 26–28, 27compression, memory, 573Confi guration Issues area, 413Confi guration tab for VUM, 140–142,

140–141Confi gure Management Network menu, 50–51,

189, 190Confi gure Network screen, 536Confi gure Replication dialog box, 427–428, 427congestion threshold setting, 607Connect At Power On option, 507Connect-VIServer cmdlet, 42, 714, 717–718

connectionsiSCSI, 298PowerCLI, 717–718

consolidated communities of VMs, 273constraints, replication, 426Content Area in Web Client, 92Content Libraries, 553–554

creating and publishing, 555, 555data and storage, 554subscribing to, 555–556synchronization, 554

Content Library Administrator role, 467Content Library privilege, 471Content Library role, 473contention, resource, 610continuity, business, 419–420

data protection, 420–424, 420disaster recovery, 423–424

continuous availability. See Fault Tolerance (FT)controllers

storage processors, 284virtual SCSI adapters, 363–364

Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), 293Converged Network Adapters (CNAs), 28, 294Convert To Template option, 541–542copies of VMFS datastore, 344–345Copy-VMGuestFile cmdlet, 714core dump redirects, 172, 173cores, CPU, 492counters, performance

CPUs, 685–686datastores, 689disks, 687issues, 674–675memory, 686, 700networks, 687–688selection, 684–685Storage Path, 689–690system, 688–689

CPU Fairness counter, 690CPU Identifi cation Mask dialog box, 629, 630CPU Ready counter, 696CPU Usage In MHz (Average) counter, 696CPU Used (%USED) counter, 693CPUs

affi nity, 585, 588–589cores, 66, 492

CREATE A NEW DATA SOURCE WIZARD • DEFAULT VM COMPATIBILITY SETTING | 783

hot-adding, 521–522limits, 586–587masking, 629–630, 630performance graphs, 685–686reservations, 585–586, 586, 596–597shares, 587–589sockets, 522, 522storage processors, 284–285, 288summary, 589usage, 583–584

default allocation, 584, 584monitoring, 694–698, 698resource pools for, 591–598, 592, 594–596

vMotion, 625VMs, 483, 492

Create A New Data Source Wizard, 132Create A New Virtual Machine option, 488Create A New VM Storage Policy dialog box, 321Create Cluster Wizard, 390Create New Data Source To SQL Server dialog

box, 78Create Resource Pool dialog box, 591–592CREATE USER statement, 74criteria, baselines, 145, 145Critical Host Patches baseline, 153CRLs (Certifi cate Revocation Lists), 458cross vCenter vMotion, 640

performing, 642requirements, 641

custom roles, 448–449Customization Specifi cation Manager, 534–535,

535customization specifi cations in vCenter Server,

534–538, 535–537Customize Using An Existing Customization

Specifi cation option, 545Customize Using The Customization Wizard

option, 545

Ddata in Content Libraries, 554Data Path Module (DPM), 259data protection, 420

arrays, 423VM backups, 420–422, 420VMware Data Protection, 422

data source name (DSN), 73, 77–79, 128,9 131–132Data Transmit Rate counter, 701–702Database page, 118databases and database servers

vCenter Server, 69–70, 70confi guring, 73ODBC DSN, 77–79Oracle, 73–75selecting, 66–68settings, 118size estimates, 117SQL Server, 75–77, 76

VUM, 129–130, 130–131Datacenter Bridging Exchange (DCBX), 292–293Datacenter Ethernet (DCE), 293Datacenter privilege, 471datacenters in vCenter Server, 97–98Datastore Browser for virtual disks, 487Datastore Capabilities dialog box, 606DataStore Cluster dialog box

overrides, 664, 665schedule evaluation, 664, 666SDRS schedules, 663, 663

Datastore Cluster privilege, 471datastore clusters, 606, 654–658, 655–658Datastore Consumer role, 470, 474DataStore Edit Cluster dialog box, schedules,

662–664, 663datastore heartbeating, 410–411, 411Datastore or Library ISO File option, 504Datastore privilege, 471datastores

vs. datastore clusters, 606NFS. See Network File System (NFS)

datastoresperformance graphs, 689VMFS. See Virtual Machine File System

(VMFS) datastoresDatastores And Datastore Clusters inventory

view, 611DCB (Datacenter Bridging) effort, 292DCBX (Datacenter Bridging Exchange), 292–293DCE (Datacenter Ethernet), 293DCUI (Direct Console User Interface), 189, 332,

438–440dedicated vs. shared uplinks, 329Default VM Compatibility setting, 104

784 | DEFAULTS • DISTRIBUTED SWITCHES

defaultsCPU allocation, 584, 584gateways, 194roles, 448vApp power settings, 562VUM port settings, 134

defense in depth, 445Defi ne Failover Capacity By Reserving A

Percentage Of The Cluster Resources option, 401

Defi ne Failover Capacity By Static Number Of Hosts option, 401

defl ating process, 573deleting

alarms, 678certifi cate stores, 458local users and groups, 436–437snapshots, 527VMkernel ports, 196VMs, 518

delta disks, 527Demand Content Libraries, 554demilitarized zones (DMZs), 251Deploy From Template Wizard, 545, 545Deploy OVF Template dialog box, 546–549,

547–549Deploy VM From This Template option, 545deployment

with Auto Deploy, 39–47, 77 41, 44interactive installation, 30–35, 31–34planning, 25–30, 27post-installation confi guration, 47–53,3 48, 8 50–52unattended installation, 35–38vCenter Server virtual appliance, 88–90,

89–91VMs from templates

OVF, 546–550, 547–549steps, 544–546, 545

descriptionscustomization specifi cations, 535snapshots, 524, 525

Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF), 553Destination Folder screen, 134–135, 135Detach Baseline dialog box, 150–151, 151detaching baselines, 150–151, 150–151deterministic networks, 288Device Manager, 511

DHCP (Dynamic Host Confi guration Protocol)confi guring, 41–42IP addresses, 34, 39, 560

differencing disks, 527Direct Console User Interface (DCUI), 189, 332,

438–440directories for OS types, 533dirty memory, 621, 621disabling SDRS, 659, 9 659disaster recovery, 423–424Disconnect-VIServer cmdlet, 718discovery in iSCSI, 297Disk Node option, 497, 77 498Disk Provisioning options, 495, 496disks

array storage, 276–277performance graphs, 687resxtop statistics, 694usage monitoring, 702–705virtual. See virtual disks

Distributed Power Management (DPM), 105, 126,142

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)Fully Automated behavior, 645–646, 645Manual behavior, 643–644, 643overview, 10–11, 643Partially Automated behavior, 644resource utilization, 618rules, 646, 647

host affi nity, 648–651, 649–652per-VM DRS, 652–653, 652VM affi nity, 646–647VM anti-affi nity, 648

Storage. See Storage DRS (SDRS)with VUM, 126

Distributed Switch privilege, 471Distributed Switches, 224

adapters, 241–247, 77 242–246Cisco Nexus 1000V, 259creating, 225–229, 9 225–229enhanced multicast functions, 250–251ESXi Dump Collector, 172Health Check, 232–233, 233importing and exporting confi gurations,

233–234LACP, 254–258, 254–258managing, 231–232

DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL PORT • ENABLING | 785

NetFlow, 247–248, 248–249port groups, 234–241, 235, 5 237–241private VLANs, 251–253, 252–253removing, 230–231removing hosts from, 229–230, 230security, 260–266, 261–264switch discovery protocols, 249–250, 250third-party, 258–260virtual networks, 179

Distributed Virtual Port (dvPort) Group privilege,472

DMTF (Desktop Management Task Force), 553DMZs (demilitarized zones), 251Do Not Customize option, 546Domain Naming System (DNS), 98Download Schedule settings, 141Download Settings section, 140, 140downstream VLANs, 251downtime, planning for, 166DPM (Data Path Module), 259DPM (Distributed Power Management), 105, 126,

142drivers

balloon, 572–573paravirtualized, 181

DRS. See Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)DSN (data source name), 73, 75, 77–79, 128,9

131–132DTP (Dynamic Trunking Protocol), 183, 219dvSwitches. See Distributed Switchesdynamic baselines, 139–140dynamic discovery, 297Dynamic Host Confi guration Protocol (DHCP)

confi guring, 41–42IP addresses, 34, 39, 560

Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP), 183, 219

Ee1000 virtual adapters, 181, 494eagerly zeroed disks, 359–360, 360, 415, 5430Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB), 259Edit Cluster dialog box

HA, 410, 411SDRS, 659–661, 659–661

Edit Cluster Settings dialog box, 408–409, 408Edit Congestion Threshold dialog box, 607

Edit Health Check Settings dialog box, 234Edit Multipathing Policies dialog box, 343–344, 343Edit NetFlow Settings dialog box, 247, 248Edit Network dialog box, 536–537, 537Edit Role dialog box, 454Edit SDRS Rule dialog box, 664Edit Security Profi le dialog box, 443–444Edit Settings dialog box

LACP, 254, 254, 257, 258load balancing, 214port groups, 238–240, 238–239resource pools, 602–603, 603SDRS rules, 664storage policies, 365–366, 367uplink groups, 255virtual disks, 361–362, 362Virtual Switches, 265vSphere Flash ReadCache, 613, 613

Edit Storage DRS Settings Wizard, 663, 663Edit TCP/IP Stack Confi guration dialog box,

198–199, 199Edit User dialog box, 435Edit vApp dialog box, 558–562, 559Edit vApp Settings dialog box, 562editing

alarms, 678local users and groups, 435, 436port groups, 236–240, 237–241roles, 454–455vApps, 558–562, 559–562VMkernel ports, 196

editions, 17–21email

SMTP Server notifi cations, 141vCenter Server, 675

EMC PowerPath/VE MPP modules, 311–312Enable CPU Hot Add option, 521Enable Host Monitoring option, 400, 400Enable I/O Metric For SDRS Recommendations

option, 662Enable VM Storage Policies dialog box, 341–342,

342, 365, 366enabling

HA, 398–400, 399–400SDRS, 659, 9 659SIOC, 605–608, 606–607vSphere Flash ReadCache, 612–614, 613

786 | END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT • FCOE

End User License Agreement (EULA)ESXi, 32vCenter Server virtual appliance, 88

engines, 284Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), 292–293Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC),

631–633, 631–634Enter A Name In The Clone/Deploy Wizard

option, 535Enterprise Acceleration Kit, 21Enterprise Edition, 18–20Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit, 21Enterprise Plus Edition, 18–20enterprise storage array design, 284–286EPTs (Extended Page Tables), 572Essentials Kits, 20ESX Agent Manager privilege, 471ESX Host/Cluster Settings section, 141–142esxcfg-vswitch cmdlet, 727–728esxcli command, 182, 195–198, 202, 308, 316–317ESXCLI commands, 731ESXi Dump Collector, 170–171, 171

core dump redirects, 172, 173testing, 172–173, 173–174

ESXi fi rewall, network access via, 441–445, 442–445

ESXi hosts. See hostsESXi Images section, 143esxtop command, 312, 692esxupdate tool, 170EtherChannel, 214ETS (Enhanced Transmission Selection),

292–293EULA (End User License Agreement)

ESXi, 32vCenter Server virtual appliance, 88

evaluation schedule in SDRS, 664, 666, 666EVB (Edge Virtual Bridging), 259EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility),

631–633, 631–634Events in vCenter Server, 103, 108–109, 9 108–109Events tab in VUM, 142–143, 143Execute Disable (XD) feature, 625Execute Workfl ow option, 748Existing Hard Disk option, 495Expandable option, 597Export Confi guration dialog box, 234Export-CSV cmdlet, 719

Export-EsxImageProfi le cmdlet, 43Export OVF Template dialog box, 550exporting

Distributed Switch confi gurations, 233–234performance graphs, 691system logs, 120–121, 120–121VMs as OVF template, 549, 9 550vRO confi guration, 740–741

Extended Page Tables (EPTs), 572Extended Statistics feature, 316Extension privilege, 471extensions, scanning for, 153extents in VMFS, 305, 305, 336–3375external connectivity for storage arrays, 275external workloads and SIOC, 611–612

Ffabric in Fibre Channel, 288–289fabric login (FLOGI), 289failover

cluster across boxes, 389–390confi guring, 215–219, 9 216–218hosts, 402NFS datastores, 351settings, 409–410

failover groups, 210Failure Interval setting, 409–410Failure Window setting, 409–410fan-in ratio, 295FastCheckpointing technology, 413, 418fastpass functionality, 728–730Fault Domain Manager (FDM), 13, 394–395Fault Tolerance (FT)

description, 71with HA, 418–419overview, 14–15, 14SMP-FT, 413–419, 9 416–419use cases, 419VUM, 126, 142

Fault Tolerance (FT) Traffi c resource pool, 601,601

FC-AL (arbitrated loop) Fibre Channel, 288FC-P2P (point-to-point) Fibre Channel, 288FC-SW (switched) Fibre Channel, 288, 288FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet), 28, 291

considerations, 294LUNs via, 327–328

FDM • GRAPHS | 787

overview, 292–293, 293physical layer, 293

FDM (Fault Domain Manager), 13, 394–395feature support for storage devices, 302Fibre Channel, 28

LUNs via, 325–326overview, 286–292, 288, 290

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), 28, 291considerations, 294LUNs via, 327–328overview, 292–293, 293physical layer, 293

Files screen for VMs, 506fi lesystem alignment, 523fi lters for multicast functions, 197Firewall Properties dialog box, 442fi rewalls

network access via, 441–445, 442–445VUM, 129

--fi rstdisk parameter, 36fi xed baselines, 139–140Fixed paths, 309–310Flash Read Cache, 16–17Flash Read Cache Reservation (%) policy, 283–284fl ash storage, 612

Swap to Host Cache, 614–615, 614–615vSphere Flash ReadCache, 612–614, 613

fl at disks, 358–359, 360Flexible virtual NICs, 494FlexMigration, 631FLOGI (fabric login), 289fl oppy drives, 483, 521Folder Of Files (OVF) format, 550Folder privilege, 471Force Provisioning policy, 283forged transmits, 261–266, 262–264frequency setting for alarms, 676–679, 9 678FT. See Fault Tolerance (FT)full copies, hardware-accelerated, 315Full File Clone functionality, 315Fully Automated mode

DRS, 645–646, 645SDRS, 659–662

Ggateway boot option, 38--gateway parameter, 36

gateways, default, 194GbE (Gigabit Ethernet) networks

fan-in ratio, 295vMotion, 626

General settings for vCenter Server, 116–118, 116

Generate New Security ID (SID) option, 537Get-Cluster cmdlet, 712, 726Get-Command cmdlet, 716Get-Credential cmdlet, 717Get-DeployRuleSet cmdlet, 44Get-EsxImageProfi le command, 43Get-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet, 714Get-Folder cmdlet, 720–721Get-Help cmdlet, 715, 717Get-Log cmdlet, 717Get-Member cmdlet, 711Get-NetworkAdapter cmdlet, 721Get-PowerCLIHelp cmdlet, 714Get-ResourcePool cmdlet, 721–722Get-Snapshot cmdlet, 720–721Get-Variable cmdlet, 712Get-VICommand cmdlet, 714, 716–717Get-View cmdlet, 722Get-VIServer cmdlet, 714Get-VM cmdlet, 710–711, 716, 720–721Get-VMGuest cmdlet, 716, 721–722Get-VMHost cmdlet, 719–720Getting Started tab in vCenter Server, 92Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networks

fan-in ratio, 295vMotion, 626

Global privilege, 471granting permissions, 450–451, 450–451granularity of roles and privileges, 447Graphics setting in vCenter Server, 105graphs, performance, 680–681

Advanced layout, 683–684, 683–684CPUs, 685–686datastores, 689disks, 687exporting, 691intervals, 690memory, 686metrics and counters selection, 684–685networks, 687–688Overview layout, 681–683, 681–682settings, 690–691, 691

788 | GROUP LOOKUP BASE SETTING • HOSTS

Storage Path, 689–690system, 688–689

Group Lookup Base setting, 739groups

authenticating, 433–437, 77 435–436baseline in VUM, 148–151, 149–151creating, 433–437, 77 435deleting, 436–437editing, 435, 436permissions, 464–465port, 234–235

adding, 195–196creating, 235–236, 235, 237editing, 236–240, 237–241PVLANs, 252–253, 253removing, 241Standard Switches, 184, 185virtual networks, 180

in security model, 447growth

degradation from, 587plans for, 568–569

Guest Customization Spec Wizard, 539, 540guest operating systems, 503–507, 77 505–506, 572Guest Shutdown setting, 562, 562

HHA. See High Availability (HA)hard disks. See disks; virtual diskshardware

upgrades, 152, 166–168vCenter Server, 64–66, 65VMs, 166–168, 519–523, 519–520, 0 522

hardware accelerationblock zeroing, 315full copy, 315VAAI, 654

hardware-assisted locking, 314–315Hardware Status section, 103Hardware Virtualization, 415hash-based load-balancing, 213–214, 213–215HBAs (host bus adapters), 287header fi les in VMDK, 487–488heads, 284Health Check feature, 232–233, 233Heartbeat Datastores area, 413heartbeats

HA, 394, 396, 408–413, 411NFS datastores, 351–352

help in PowerCLI, 716–717High Availability (HA), 377

admission control, 400–403, 402capability testing, 399clustering. See clusters; Windows Failover

Clustering (WFC)datastore heartbeating, 410–411, 411enabling, 398–400, 399–400example experience, 393FT. See Fault Tolerance (FT)functionality, 394–396, 395–396layers, 377–378, 377managing, 411, 412NFS datastores, 348–354, 348–350, 0 352overview, 12–14, 13, 392–393, 393storage devices, 270, 374–375vCenter Server, 68–70, 70VM options, 396–397, 77 398, 403, 404

isolation response, 405–408, 407monitoring, 408–410, 408, 410VM Restart Priority options, 404–405,

404–405vMotion, 628VUM, 126, 142

High Availability Admission Control, 142high-throughput workloads, 353history in SDRS, 661, 661home screen in Web Client, 92–94, 92Host Agent Check tool, 177host bus adapters (HBAs), 287Host Cache Confi guration feature, 106, 614, 614Host Device option, 504Host Isolation Response setting, 407Host privilege, 471Host Profi le privilege, 472Host Profi le setting in vCenter Server, 105Host Profi les view, 110, 110Host Remediation Options page, 156–157, 157--hostname parameter, 36hosts, 98–100, 99

Active Directory integration, 437–438affi nity rules, 648–651, 649–652attaching baselines to, 148–149, 9 149baseline groups, 146Distributed Switches, 226–229, 9 230extension baselines, 139

HOSTS AND CLUSTERS VIEW • INSTALLING | 789

failover, 402HA, 394–396, 395–396, 410logging, 455–456migrating VMs on, 720patches, 169–170, 446

importance, 159scanning for, 153staging, 154–155, 155VUM, 126

permissions. See permissionsPowerCLI connections, 717–718remediating, 155–158, 156–158retrieving, 732–734security. See securityupgrades, 169–170

baseline, 162–163extensions, 161process, 164–167, 165scanning for, 152–154, 153–154VM hardware, 166–168

vCenter Serverconfi guring, 103–106, 104Events view, 108–109, 108–109managing, 100–103, 101–102number of, 89profi les, 109–112, 110–111scheduled tasks, 106–108tags, 112–115, 113–115

Hosts And Clusters view, 94–97hot-add functionality, 521–522hot sparing, 280HP FlexFabric Virtual Switch 5900v, 260HTTPS (HTTP over Secure Sockets Layer), 91hurricanes, 423Hyper-V, 16–17hypervisors

swapping, 572–573types, 4

II/O Imbalance Threshold option, 662I/O Latency option, 662I/O operations per second (IOPS)

limit, 610NFS datastores, 353–354performance requirements, 272

iBFT (iSCSI Boot Firmware Table), 299

IBM Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V, 259idle memory tax, 571IDS (intrusion-detection system), 260–261IEFT standard, 297IGMP/MLD snooping, 251, 251images and image profi les, 39

creating, 42–43importing, 162–166, 165ISO

operating systems, 505VMware Tools, 509

VMs, 503importing

Distributed Switch confi gurations, 233–234images, 162–166, 165machines from other environments, 564VCenter Server licenses, 742–743vRO confi guration, 740–741vRO server certifi cates, 742

in-guest iSCSI initiators, 368–369Increase Datastore Capacity wizard, 337, 337Independent mode option, 498infl ating process, 572–573initiators, iSCSI

activating and confi guring, 330–333, 331–333

description, 296, 297hardware vs. software, 298, 298in-guest, 368–369networking for, 329–330, 330

install command, 36Install ESXi, Overwrite VMFS Datastore option,

34Install ESXi, Preserve VMFS Datastore option, 34installing, 30. See also deployment

OS installation media, 504–507, 77 505–506PowerCLI, 713–714, 713, 715scripts for, 35Sysprep, 532–534, 532UMDS, 135–136, 136vCenter Server, 72–73, 82–85, 84VMware Tools, 509–510

in Linux, 513–515, 515in Windows, 510–513, 512

vSphere Web Client, 85VUM

plug-ins, 136–137, 137steps, 127–128, 132–135, 133–135

790 | INTELLIGENT PLACEMENT • LICENSES

intelligent placement, 10, 643interactive installation, 30–35, 31–34internal-only vSwitch, 186, 186Internet Information Services, 84intervals

failure settings, 409–410performance graphs, 690

intrusion-detection system (IDS), 261inventory, vCenter Server, 94

clusters, 100datacenter objects, 97–98ESXi hosts, 98–100, 99views, 94–97, 77 95–96

Inventory Service privilege, 472Invoke-VMscript cmdlet, 714IOPS (I/O operations per second)

limit, 610NFS datastores, 353–354performance requirements, 272

IP addresseshash-based load-balancing, 213–214, 213–215OVF templates, 548–549pools, 560vApps, 559–560, 560–561VMs, 167

IP Allocation Scheme option, 559ip boot option, 38--ip parameter, 36IPSec, 297IQNs (iSCSI qualifi ed names), 296Is Above condition, 674iSCSI

initiatorsactivating and confi guring, 330–333,

331–333description, 296, 297hardware vs. software, 298, 298in-guest, 368–369networking for, 329–330, 330

LUN via, 328–334, 330–333NICs, 29overview, 294–299, 9 294–295, 5 297–298support, 28–29

iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT), 299iSCSI Naming Service (iSNS), 297iSCSI qualifi ed names (IQNs), 296ISO images

operating systems, 505VMware Tools, 509

isolated VLANs, 252isolation

HA, 396addresses, 406–407response, 405–408, 407

VMs, 701issues in vCenter Server, 102–103

Jjumbo frames in iSCSI, 299jump boxes, 446

KKeep Existing Signature option, 345Keep Virtual Machines Together option, 646–647Keep VMDKs Together By Default option, 662keyboard command, 36keyboards in VMs, 483ks boot options, 37–38

LLACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol), 183,

214confi guring, 254–258, 254–258disabling, 219

LANsprivate, 251–253, 252–253virtual, 180

large bandwidth workloads on NFS, 353large throughput workloads on NFS, 353latency

SDRS, 655, 662storage, 604

layers in HA, 377–378, 377Lazy File Clone feature, 316LBT (Load-Based Teaming), 239LDAP, 739–740legends in performance graphs, 684levels of Server statistics, 117libraries, content, 553–556, 555licenses

backup agents, 421tiers, 17–21

LICENSING SERVICE IN VCENTER SERVER • MANAGE TAB | 791

vCenter Server, 60, 105, 118–119, 9 119VMs, 508–509vRO, 742–743Web Client administration, 120

Licensing Service in vCenter Server, 60Limit setting, 600limits

CPU, 586–587memory, 578–579resource allocation, 568, 569storage I/O, 610–611

link aggregationNFS, 348–349, 349vs. trunking, 180

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), 183, 214

confi guring, 254–258, 254–258disabling, 219

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP),249–250

link state tracking, 215link status failover-detection, 215linked mode groups, 85–88, 87Linux, VMware Tools installation in, 513–515,

515listing certifi cate stores, 458live migration. See vMotionLLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol), 249–250load-balancing

IP hash-based, 213–214, 213–215LACP, 257–258MAC-based, 212, 212NIC teaming, 210–211NLB

HA, 378Notify Switches, 218overview, 379–380, 380virtual switch policies, 264–265

port-based, 211–212, 211Load-Based Teaming (LBT), 239loading PowerCLI functions, 726local access to hosts, 438–439local accounts, SSO with, 462–463local CLI access, 438–440local devices, 32–33, 32Local - Published Content Libraries

confi guration, 554–555, 555

Local - Stand Alone Content Libraries confi guration, 554

local storage vs. shared, 273–275Local Users & Groups tab, 433–434local users and groups

authenticating, 433–437,77 435–436creating, 433–437, 77 435deleting, 436–437editing, 435, 436

locking, hardware-assisted, 314–315Log Browser section, 103Log Insight product, 176Logging Settings area, 118logical inventory, 489logical units (LUNs)

FCoE for, 327–328Fibre Channel, 289–290, 325–326iSCSI, 295–296, 328–334, 330–333queues, 312–313, 313RAID, 281vs. SCs, 324storage arrays, 284–285VMFS, 304–305

logs and logginghosts, 455–456Syslog Collector, 174–176, 175–176system, 120–121, 120–121vCenter Server, 118, 478, 478

LSI Logic controllers, 363–364LUNs. See logical units (LUNs)

MMAC addresses

allowing changes to, 261–266, 261–264cross vCenter vMotion, 641

MAC-based load-balancing, 212, 212MACHINE_SSL_CERT store, 457Mail page in vCenter Server, 118maintenance mode in SDRS, 657–658major versions of VMs, 492Manage Distributed Port Groups wizard, 248–249Manage Physical Network Adapters dialog box,

209–210, 242, 245Manage tab

Distributed Switches, 231vCenter Server hosts, 103–105, 104

792 | MANAGE VIRTUAL ADAPTERS OPTION • MUST RUN ON HOSTS IN GROUP RULE

Manage Virtual Adapters option, 242management, separating workloads from, 72management networks

reconfi guring, 49–51, 50–51Standard Switches, 188–191, 189–192

manifest fi les, 550–551Manual mode

DRS, 643–644, 643SDRS, 659–660, 662

maskingCPU, 629, 9 630LUN, 290

master/slave architecture in HA, 394–396master SSO passwords, 81Maximum Failures setting, 409–410Maximum Per-VM Resets setting, 410Maximum Resets Time Window setting, 410MBREAD/s statistic, 694MBWRTN/s statistic, 694megabytes per second in arrays, 277memory

cache, 276performance graphs, 686resource allocation, 570–571, 570

advanced technologies, 571–574ballooning, 572–573compression, 573limits, 578–579overcommitment, 578overhead, 581–582overview, 574–575reservations, 575–578, 576–577shares, 580–581, 581speed, 575–576summary, 582swapping, 573–574transparent page sharing, 571–572

resxtop statistics, 693usage

monitoring, 698–700resource pools for, 597–598

vCenter Server host settings, 105vMotion bitmaps, 619–621, 620–621VMs, 483, 492, 493

Memory Fairness counter, 690Memory Hot Plug option, 521Memory Swap Used (Average) counter, 700

message of the day (MOTD), 119metrics selection, 684–685.mf fi les, 550–551Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit,

499–500Microsoft licensing, 508–509midrange array storage, 284–286Migrate Virtual Machine Wizard, 636, 636Migrate Virtual Machine Networking wizard,

245–246, 245–246migrating

virtual adapters, 245–2476, 245–246virtual disks, 636vMotion. See vMotionVMs, 720

Minimum Space Utilization Difference setting,662

Minimum Uptime setting, 409–410mirrored RAID levels, 278–279MMX (Multimedia Extension) instructions,

625Monitor tab

Distributed Switches, 231–232vCenter Server hosts, 102–103

monitoringHA, 408–410, 408, 410performance. See performance

Most Recently Used path, 309MOTD (message of the day), 119mounting NFS datastores, 354–358, 356–357mouse, 483Move Datastores Into Cluster dialog box,

657–658, 657moving VMs between resource pools, 721–722MPIO (multipath I/O) storage framework, 329MPP modules, 311–312MSDB permissions, 77, 130multicast functions, 197, 77 250–251Multimedia Extension (MMX) instructions, 625multipath I/O (MPIO) storage framework, 329multipathing

overview, 306–312, 307–310, 0 313VMFS datastores, 343–344, 343

Multiple Connections Per Session, 298multiple NICs with vMotion, 619Must Not Run On Hosts In Group rule, 650Must Run On Hosts In Group rule, 650

NAA • NETWORKS | 793

NNAA (Network Address Authority) identifi ers,

289

names

customization specifi cations, 535

directories, 533

iSCSI Naming Service, 297resolution confi guration, 53resolution problems, 97–98snapshots, 524, 525vApps, 557

VMFS datastores, 342–343VMs, 500–501, 501

nameserver boot option, 38

NAS (network attached storage) best practices,

370–375native VLANs, 205

Navigator for Web Client, 92, 94NetFlow mechanism, 247–248, 248–249NetIOC (Network I/O Control)

overview, 12working with, 598–599, 604

netmask boot option, 38

--netmask parameter, 36

Network Address Authority (NAA) identifi ers,

289

Network Administrator role, 470, 474

network attached storage (NAS) best practices,

370–375network command, 36

Network Connectivity settings, 140

Network File System (NFS) datastores, 28–29,

347–348connectivity troubleshooting, 357creating and mounting, 354–358, 356–357HA design, 348–354, 348–350, 0 352large bandwidth workloads, 353large throughput workloads, 353–354NFS v3 vs. NFS v4.1, 301overview, 299–301, 300virtual disks, 359–361, 361

Network I/O Control (NIOC)

overview, 12working with, 598–599, 604

network interface card (NIC) teams, 180

constructing, 209

failover detection and failover policy, 215–219, 9 216–218

IP hash-based load-balancing policy, 213–214, 213–215

MAC-based load-balancing policy, 212, 212NFS datastores, 348–350overview, 207–211, 208–210port-based load-balancing policy, 211–212, 211vSwitch, 187, 188

network interface cards (NICs), 29–30links, 49–51, 52vMotion, 619, 626VMs, 483, 493–494, 493

network isolation, 396, 406Network Load Balancing (NLB)

HA, 378Notify Switches, 218overview, 379–380, 380virtual switch policies, 264–265

network partitions, 396network portals, 296Network privilege, 472Network Resource Pool option, 236Network Resource Pool Settings dialog box, 601Network Restore Options screen, 191, 192Network Rollback feature, 232–233Network Time Protocol (NTP)

confi guring, 513enabling, 51–53, 52

networksaccess control to, 441–445, 442–445adapters. See network interface cards (NICs)confi guring, 200–202, 201integration with, 29–30interactive installation on, 35performance graphs, 687–688resource pools, 598–604, 600–601resxtop statistics, 693–694security policies, 478–479for software iSCSI initiator, 329–330, 330usage monitoring, 700–702, 702utilization control, 598–604, 599–603vCenter Server host settings, 106virtual. See virtual networksVM confi guration, 721vMotion security, 623–624vRO, 738

794 | NEW BASELINE GROUP WIZARD • OVERRIDES

New Baseline Group Wizard, 146, 146New Baseline Wizard, 145, 145New Cluster Wizard, 100New Database window, 130, 130–131New Datastore Wizard, 334–336, 335, 355–356, 5

356New Datastore Cluster Wizard, 654–656, 655New-DeployRule cmdlet, 43New Distributed Port Group Wizard, 235, 235, 5

252–253, 253New Distributed Switch wizard, 225–226,

225–226New-EsxImageProfi le command, 43New Hard Disk option, 495New Link Aggregation Group dialog box,

256–257, 256New Network option, 520New Network Resource Pool dialog box, 602, 602New Resource Pool option, 452New Tag dialog box, 112, 320, 320New vApp Wizard, 557, 558New Virtual Machine wizard, 488–498, 489–491,

493, 496–498Nexus 1000V switch, 259NFS. See Network File System (NFS) datastoresNIC teams. See network interface card (NIC)

teamsNICs. See network interface cards (NICs)NIOC (Network I/O Control)

overview, 12working with, 598–599, 604

NLB (Network Load Balancing)HA, 378Notify Switches, 218overview, 379–380, 380virtual switch policies, 264–265

NMP module, 308No Access role, 448, 468No Execute/Execute Disable (NX/XD) bit, 629,

630nodes, 284NoExecute (NX) feature, 625Non-Critical Host Patches baseline, 153Notifi cation Check Schedule, 141notifi cations

SNMP, 675VUM, 141, 143

Notifi cations tab, 143Notify Switches option, 218NTP (Network Time Protocol)

confi guring, 513enabling, 51–53, 52

NTP Daemon (ntpd) Options dialog box, 52, 52Number of Disk Stripes per Object policy, 283Numbers of Failures to Tolerate policy, 283NX (NoExecute) feature, 625NX/XD (No Execute/Execute Disable) bit, 629,

630

OObject Space Reservation (%) policy, 283objects

PowerCLI, 710–711vCenter Server, 97–100, 99

ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) DSNconfi guring, 77–79creating, 131–132vCenter Server, 73, 75, 80, 83VUM, 128

ODBC Microsoft SQL Server Setup dialog box, 132

online transaction processing (OLTP) databases,272

Open Virtualization Format (OVF) templates, 546deploying VMs from, 546–550, 547–549examining, 551–553exporting VMs as, 549, 9 550

operating system-specifi c packages (OSP), 152operating systems, 503–507, 77 505–506, 572Options tab for vApps, 559Oracle databases, 73–75orchestrated upgrades, 167–168OS images, 419OS layer in HA, 377, 37877OSP (operating system-specifi c packages), 152out-IP policy, 213outbound traffi c in NIC teaming, 211.ova fi les, 553overcommitment

HA, 401memory, 578

overhead, memory, 581–582overrides, SDRS, 664, 665

OVERVIEW LAYOUT FOR PERFORMANCE GRAPHS • PHYSICAL ADAPTERS SETTING | 795

Overview layout for performance graphs,681–683, 681–682

--overwritevmfs parameter, 36OVF (Open Virtualization Format) templates, 546

deploying VMs from, 546–550, 547–549examining, 551–553exporting VMs as, 549, 9 550

OVF Template Details screen, 547

PP2V (physical-to-virtual) conversion tools, 69Packets Transmitters counter, 702page sharing, 571–572, 578PAgP (Port Aggregation Protocol), 214, 219parallel ports, 483paravirtualized devices, 483

drivers, 181, 494, 509SCSI adapters, 363–364

parity RAID, 279–281, 279, 9 281Partially Automated setting, 644Partition Layout screen, 335, 335partitions in HA, 399Passive LACP mode, 255passwords

Administrator, 536root, 34, 36, 456users, 434, 435vCenter Server virtual appliance, 88VIRuntime library, 733vRO, 737, 739vRO appliances, 745VUM, 132–133, 133

Patch Repository tab, 143patches

description, 127hosts, 446

importance, 159scanning for, 153staging, 154–155, 155

stateless PXE-booted servers, 142vCenter installation, 74VMs, 479VUM, 126, 134

alternatives, 168–170baselines, 139displaying, 143

settings, 140staging, 154–155, 155

paths in VMFS datastores, 343–344, 343PDC Emulator, 513PDL (permanent device loss) events, 397Peak Bandwidth value, 219–220per-VM CPU masking, 629–630, 630per-VM DRS settings, 652–653, 652performance

arrays storage, 276as design consideration, 372–373monitoring, 669

alarms. See alarmsCPU usage, 695–698, 698disk usage, 702–705graphs. See graphs, performanceissues, 705memory usage, 698–700network usage, 700–702, 702overview, 669–671, 670resxtop, 692–695, 692

storage devices, 269, 272–273, 302–303Performance privilege, 472Performance section for vCenter Server hosts, 103Perl automation, 731–734permanent device loss (PDL) events, 397permissions

Active Directory, 464–465hosts

custom roles, 448–449granting, 450–451, 450–451overview, 446–448, 447removing, 453resource pools for, 452–453, 452roles, 454–455usage, 453–454, 453

MSDB, 130SQL Server, 77users, 434vCenter Server, 467

interactions, 476–477privileges, 475–477roles, 467–471, 468, 475–477

Permissions privilege, 472PEs (Protocol Endpoints), 322–323, 325PFC (Priority Flow Control), 292Physical Adapters setting, 106

796 | PHYSICAL COMPATIBILITY MODE • PRECOPY

Physical Compatibility mode, 384–385Physical Compatibility Mode RDMs (pRDM), 346physical inventory, 489Physical layer

FCoE, 293in HA, 377, 37877

physical machines, provisioning, 502physical switches vs. virtual, 183–184physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion tools, 69physical-to-virtual clustering, 382, 390–391,

391–392ping command, 622pipelines, 712planning deployment, 25–26

network infrastructure integration, 29–30server platform, 26–28, 27storage architecture, 28–29

plans for growth, 568–569Platform Services Controller (PSC), 59–60, 61

installing, 80–82, 81protecting, 68–69

playing back performance data, 694–695PLOGI (port login), 289plug-ins

vRO, 743VUM, 136–137, 77 137

Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA), 307, 307, 77397

point-to-point (FC-P2P) Fibre Channel, 288policies

storage, 283–284, 324VM storage, 365–368, 365–368, 490–491, 491

poolsarray, 369IP, 560resource. See resource pools

Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP), 214, 219Port Allocation settings, 235–236port-based load-balancing policy, 211–212, 211Port Binding settings, 235ports and port groups, 188, 234–235

adding, 194–196, 196creating, 235–236, 235, 5 237editing, 236–240, 237–241managing, 603, 603PVLANs, 252–253, 253removing, 241

Service Console, 180Standard Switches, 184, 185TCP/IP stacks, 199–200, 200vCenter Server, 118virtual networks, 180virtual switches, 184, 221, 221VLANs, 203, 205–206VMs, 483VUM settings, 134

Ports page, 118post-installation, 47

management network reconfi guration, 49–51, 50–51

name resolution, 53time synchronization, 51–53, 52vSphere Client, 47–49, 9 48

Power Management setting, 105Power Off command, 517, 521, 562Power On command, 517, 562–563power settings

FT, 415vApps, 562, 562

power statesvApps, 562–563, 563VMs, 517–518, 517

PowerCLI, 709–711, 731building scripts, 720–722capabilities, 715, 722–726cmdlets, 710, 716–717compatibility, 715–716confi guration change script, 719–720execution policy, 715function loading, 726help, 716–717installing and confi guring, 713–714, 713, 715objects, 710–711pipelines, 712profi le tasks, 43reporting script, 718–719variables, 711–712vCenter Server and host connections, 717–718VUM, 168, 169

powered-on VMs, cloning, 541PowerPath/VE MPP modules, 311–312PowerShell. See PowerCLIpRDM (Physical Compatibility Mode) RDMs, 346preCopy, vMotion, 619

PREDICTIVE SCHEMES IN STORAGE DESIGN • RAW DEVICE MAPPINGS | 797

predictive schemes in storage design, 374--preservevmfs parameter, 36previous major VM versions, 491–492priority

DRS, 645–646restart, 404–405, 404–405VMotion migration, 627–628

Priority Flow Control (PFC), 292private VLANs (PVLANs), 251–253, 252–253privileges, 447, 471–477proactive hot sparing, 280processors. See CPUsProcessors setting in vCenter Server, 105products and features overview, 1–3

Client and Web Client, 7–8DRS, 10–11editions, 17–21Flash Read Cache, 16–17FT, 14–15, 14HA, 12–14, 13profi le-based storage, 12scenarios, 21–22SDRS, 11storage and network I/O control, 11–12VADP and VDR, 15vCenter Server, 5–7vMotion and Storage vMotion, 9VMware ESXi, 3–5, 4vRealize Orchestrator, 8vSANs, 15–16vSphere Replication, 16vSphere Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing,

8–9, 9 8VUM, 7

profi le-based storage, 12, 318–322profi le-driven storage, 319–321Profi le-Driven Storage privilege, 472profi les

images. See images and image profi lesvCenter Server hosts, 109–112, 110–111

Promiscuous mode for Standard Switches,260–261, 262

promiscuous ports for PVLANs, 253Prompt The User For An Address When The

Specifi cation Is Used option, 537Propagate To Child Objects option, 450proprietary VAAI, 315

Protocol Endpoints (PEs), 322–323, 325Protocol Endpoints settings, 106protocols for storage devices, 286

choices, 301–303Fibre Channel, 286–292, 288, 290Fibre Channel over Ethernet, 292–293, 293iSCSI, 294–299, 9 294–295, 5 297–298NFS, 299–301, 300

provisioned size of virtual disks, 361, 361provisioning

virtual machines, 502vSAN policies, 283

.ps1 fi les, 720PSA (Pluggable Storage Architecture), 307, 307, 39777PSC (Platform Services Controller), 59–60, 61

installing, 80–82, 81protecting, 68–69

PSOD (purple screen of death), 170–171PSP modules, 308–310, 309Published Content Libraries, 554–555, 555publishing Content Libraries, 555, 555purple screen of death (PSOD), 170–171PVLANs (private VLANs), 251–253, 252–253PXE-booted servers, 142

Qqueues, LUN, 312–313, 313Quiesce Guest File System (Needs VMware Tools

Installed) option, 524quiesced VMs, 620

RRAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks),

277–281, 278–279, 9 281RAM. See memoryrange setting for alarms, 676–679, 9 678Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI), 572RARP (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol),

219, 621Raw Device Mappings (RDMs), 345–347

clusters, 384–391, 384–389SCSI nodes for, 384Storage vMotion, 635virtual disks, 358, 359VMs, 496

798 | RBO • RESOURCE UTILIZATION

RBO (Retail and Branch Offi ces) kits, 20RDM Disk option, 496RDMs. See Raw Device Mappings (RDMs)%RDY counter, 693Read-Only role, 448, 468Read Rate counter, 703–704READS/s statistic, 694Ready Time (%RDY) counter, 693Real-Time option for performance graphs, 690reboot command, 36Recent Tasks bar in Web Client, 93recovery, disaster, 423–424recovery model in vCenter Server, 83recovery point objectives (RPOs), 275–276Recovery Settings screen, 428, 428redirecting

core dumps, 172, 173Syslog Collector, 174–176, 175–176

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), 277–281, 278–279, 9 281

Register Virtual Machine Wizard, 516, 516registering VMs, 516–517, 77 516Related Objects tab

Distributed Switches, 231performance monitoring, 670, 670

relaxed co-scheduling algorithm, 583Remediate dialog box

hosts, 156–158, 156–158, 164, 165VMware Tools, 159–160, 160

Remediate Wizard, 164, 166remediation

description, 148hosts, 155–158, 156–158, 164, 165VMware Tools, 159–160, 160

remote CLI access, 440–441remote devices, 32–33, 32RemoteSigned script execution, 715Remove Hosts option, 229removing

Distributed Switches, 230–231hosts from Distributed Switches, 229–230,

230permissions, 453port groups, 241roles, 454–455VMFS datastores, 345VMs, 518

renaming VMFS datastores, 342–343replacing certifi cates, 457replication, 424

installing, 426–427, 77 426working with, 425–429, 9 425–428

reporting script, 718–719requirements

vCenter Server, 64–66, 65vMotion, 622–626VUM, 128–129

Reservation setting, 600reservations

CPU, 585–586, 586, 596–597HA, 403memory, 575–578, 576–577resource allocation, 568, 569

Reserve Space functionality, 315Reset command, 518resetting

alarms, 680VMs, 518

resource allocation, 567CPU utilization. See CPUsmemory. See memorynetwork I/O utilization, 598–604, 599–603pools. See resource poolsreviewing, 567–569storage I/O utilization. See storage I/O

utilizationvs. utilization, 617–618vApp settings, 558–559, 9 559

Resource Allocation tabperformance monitoring, 670resource pools, 594–602, 595

resource consumption alarms, 672–675, 674resource contention, 610Resource Pool Administrator role, 470, 473–474resource pools

confi guring, 591–598, 592CPU usage, 591–598, 592, 594–596memory usage, 597–598moving VMs between, 721–722networks, 598–604, 600–601overview, 589–590, 590–591for permissions, 452–453, 452

Resource privilege, 472resource utilization, 617

RESOURCES PANE IN PERFORMANCE MONITORING • SDRS MAINTENANCE MODE MIGRATION RECOMMENDATIONS DIALOG BOX | 799

vs. allocation, 617–618cross vCenter vMotion, 640–642DRS. See Distributed Resource Scheduler

(DRS)SDRS. See Storage DRS (SDRS)Storage vMotion

with vMotion, 637–640, 638–639working with, 634–637, 636

vMotion. See vMotionResources pane in performance monitoring,

670restart

automatic, 392, 393priority, 404–405, 404–405

Restart Guest command, 518Restart Management Network option, 191, 191Restore Confi guration dialog box, 234Restricted script execution, 715resxtop utility, 312, 670, 692–695, 692Retail and Branch Offi ces (RBO) kits, 20return on investment (ROI), 21Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP),

219, 621Revert Last Operation option, 459reverting to snapshots, 527–528, 527–528right-sizing VMs, 567–568ROI (return on investment), 21roles

custom, 448–449editing and removing, 454–455security model, 447–448vCenter Server

privileges, 473–477reviewing, 467–471, 468working with, 470–471

Web Client administration, 119Roles settings, 119rollbacks

Distributed Switch confi guration, 232–233in remediation, 160, 160

root passwords, 34ESXi hosts, 456setting, 36vRO appliance, 745

rootpw parameter, 36Round Robin paths, 309–310, 344RPOs (recovery point objectives), 275–276

rulesAuto Deploy, 43–45, 44DRS, 646, 647

host affi nity, 648–651, 649–652per-VM DRS, 652–653, 652VM affi nity, 646–647VM anti-affi nity, 648

SDRS, 664, 665runtime behavior of SDRS, 662Runtime Settings area in vCenter Server, 117RVI (Rapid Virtualization Indexing), 572

SSame Format As Source option, 543SANs (storage area networks)

best practices, 370–375Fibre Channel, 286, 288, 288fl ash storage for, 612replication, 424

SATA controllers, 483SATA storage adapters, 363–365, 364SATP modules, 308, 308, 310, 310Save Options As option, 690saving performance graphs, 690–691, 691scale of midrange storage, 286scans, 151–154, 152–154Schedule Storage DRS Task Wizard, 663Schedule Update Download Wizard, 141Scheduled Task privilege, 472schedules

patches, 141remediation, 156, 157, 160,77 160SDRS, 662–664, 663, 666, 666

scopes of alarms, 672scripts

building, 720–722installation, 35

SCs (Storage Containers), 323–324, 323SCSI

adapters, 363–365, 364, 483clusters, 387, 388nodes for RDMs, 387VM controllers, 495

SCSI-3 dependency, 306SDRS. See Storage DRS (SDRS)SDRS Maintenance Mode Migration

Recommendations dialog box, 657, 658

800 | SECURE SOCKETS LAYER • SMP FAULT TOLERANCE

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certifi catesvCenter Server, 91, 118vRO, 742

security, 431hosts, 432

access, 438–446, 442–445authentication, 432–438, 435–436logging, 455–456patched, 446permissions. See permissions

IPSec, 297overview, 431–432recommended practices, 455–456vCenter Server

authentication, 461–465Certifi cate Manager, 459–461, 460certifi cate stores, 457–459logging, 478, 478overview, 456–457permissions. See permissionsprivileges, 471–477roles, 470–471, 475–477

virtual switches, 260–266, 261–264vMotion, 623–624VMs, 479vpxuser, 465–466

Security IDs (SIDs), 537Security Profi le settings, 105segmentation of VLANs, 202, 203Select An Existing Standard Switch option, 194Select an Object dialog box, 120–121, 120Select Member Hosts dialog box, 229Select New Host dialog box, 227Select-Object cmdlet, 711Select Switch dialog box, 194Select Users And Groups dialog box, 450Separate Virtual Machines rule, 648serial ports, 483server certifi cates, 742servers

Auto Deploy, 41, 42platform selection, 26–28, 27size and number, 11vCenter Server. See vCenter Servervirtual Mac, 504vRO, 735

Service Console, 180

Service Registry, 60service time, 312Services Properties dialog box, 439–440Sessions privilege, 472Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet, 714Set-NetworkAdapter cmdlet, 721Set-VMHostSyslogServer cmdlet, 719–720Settings tab for vCenter Server, 103–105, 104Setup a Reoccurring Schedule For This Action

option, 663shared nothing vMotion, 637shared storage

fundamentals, 271–273, 271vs. local, 273–275

shared uplinks vs. dedicated, 329shares

CPU, 587–589memory, 580–581, 581resource allocation, 568, 569storage I/O, 608–610, 609

Shares setting, 600Should Not Run On Hosts In Group rule, 650Should Run On Hosts In Group rule, 650Shut Down Guest OS command, 518, 521Shutdown Action, 562SIDs (Security IDs), 537Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), 4

alarms, 670confi guration, 118notifi cations, 675

Single File (OVA) format, 550Single Sign-On (SSO)

confi guring, 461–465, 738–739setting up, 89steps, 56–59, 9 59

SIOC (Storage I/O Control), 11–12, 604–608, 606–607

Site Recovery Manager (SRM), 16, 424size

burst, 219–220databases, 117servers, 11virtual disks, 361, 361, 483, 501–502, 502VMs, 498–500

slave hosts, 394–396, 396slots in HA, 402–403SMP Fault Tolerance, 413–419, 9 416–419

SMTP SERVER FOR EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS • STORAGE AND STORAGE DEVICES | 801

SMTP Server for email notifi cations, 141Snapshot Manager, 527–528Snapshot The Virtual Machine’s Memory option,

524snapshots

description, 71manipulating, 720–721in remediation, 160, 160working with, 524–528, 525, 5 527–528

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), 4alarms, 670confi guration, 118notifi cations, 675

SnS (Support and Subscription), 20sockets, 522, 522software depots, 42software for storage arrays, 275–276software iSCSI initiators

activating and confi guring, 330–333, 331–333networking for, 329–330, 330

sp_changedbowner stored procedure, 77Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), 183–184, 219sparse fi les, 358speed of memory, 575–576spindles, 276–277SQL Server

permissions, 77vCenter Server databases, 75–77, 77 76VUM, 129

SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, 67SRM (Site Recovery Manager), 16, 424SSDs

SAN storage, 282uses, 615vSphere Flash ReadCache, 613–614

SSE2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 2), 625SSH

certifi cate replacement, 457remote CLI access via, 440–441

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certifi catesvCenter Server, 91, 118vRO, 742

SSL Settings page, 118SSO (Single Sign-On)

confi guring, 461–465, 738–739setting up, 89steps, 56–59, 9 59

stacked views, 703Stage Wizard, 155staging patches, 154–155, 155Stand Alone Content Libraries, 554Standard Acceleration Kit, 21Standard Edition, 18–20Standard Switches, 182–183

connecting, 49, 50management networking, 188–191, 189–192NIC teaming. See network interface card

(NIC) teamsvs. physical switches, 183–184ports and port groups, 184, 185scenario, 220–224, 221–223security, 260–266, 261–264traffi c shaping, 219–220, 220uplinks, 184–188, 184–188virtual networks, 179VLANs, 202–207, 77 203–206VMkernel networking, 191–196, 192–193,

196–197standby adapters, 217–218, 217–218standby vCenter Servers, 69Start Order tab for vApps, 562–563, 562Stateful mode, 46–47Stateless Caching mode, 45–46, 46stateless ESXi hosts, 45stateless PXE-booted servers, patching, 142static discovery in iSCSI, 297static IP addresses, 537, 559statistics

resxtop, 693–694vCenter Server, 116–117, 77 116

storage, Content Libraries, 554Storage Adapters setting, 106storage and storage devices, 269

APIs, 314–318, 316–317architecture determination, 28–29arrays. See arrayscore concepts, 304design, 269–270disks. See disksfundamentals, 271–273, 271in-guest iSCSI initiators, 368–369local vs. shared, 273–275midrange and enterprise, 284–286multipathing, 306–312, 307–310, 0 313

802 | STORAGE AREA NETWORKS • SWAP FILE LOCATION SETTING

NFS datastores. See Network File System(NFS) datastores

performance, 269, 272–273profi le-based, 318–322profi le-driven, 319–321protocols, 286

choices, 301–303Fibre Channel, 286–292, 288, 290Fibre Channel over Ethernet, 292–293, 293iSCSI, 294–299, 294–295, 297–298NFS, 299–301, 300

RAID, 277–281, 278–279, 9 281raw device mappings, 345–347SAN and NAS best practices, 370–375virtual adapters, 363–365, 364Virtual Volumes, 322–325, 323VM storage policies, 365–368, 365–368VMFS datastores. See Virtual Machine File

System (VMFS) datastoresVSAN, 281–284, 283

storage area networks (SANs)best practices, 370–375Fibre Channel, 286, 288, 288fl ash storage for, 612replication, 424

Storage Containers (SCs), 323–324, 323Storage Devices setting, 106Storage DRS (SDRS)

automation settings, 659–661, 659–661confi guring, 658datastore clusters, 654–658, 655–658enabling and disabling, 659, 9 659evaluation schedule, 664, 666, 666latency, 655, 662overrides, 664, 665overview, 11, 653–654resource utilization, 618rules, 664, 665runtime behavior, 662schedules, 662–664, 663

Storage DRS tab, 661, 661Storage DRS Thresholds settings, 662Storage I/O Control (SIOC), 11–12, 604–608,

606–607storage I/O utilization

enabling, 605–608, 606–607external workloads, 611–612

fl ash, 612–615, 613–615limits, 610–611overview, 604–605settings, 611, 611shares, 608–610, 609

Storage Path counters, 689–690storage policies, 365–368, 365–368, 490–491, 491storage processors, 275, 284–285, 288Storage settings for vCenter Server hosts, 106Storage view, 94Storage Views privilege, 472Storage vMotion

overview, 9with RDMs, 635resource utilization, 618and SDRS, 11with vMotion, 637–640, 638–639working with, 634–637, 77 636

Store With The Virtual Machine option, 497STP (Spanning Tree Protocol), 183–184, 219Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2), 625stripes, RAID, 278–279, 278Subscribed - Automatic Content Libraries

confi guration, 554Subscribed - On Demand Content Libraries

confi guration, 554subscribing to Content Libraries, 555–556Summary tab

clusters, 646CPU performance, 697disk performance, 703–704FT, 418, 418HA, 412–413, 412memory performance, 699–700network performance, 701Resources pane, 669roles, 395, 395SDRS, 656, 656vApps, 560, 561vCenter Server hosts, 102virtual disks, 361, 362VM storage profi les, 365VMware Tools, 515, 515

Support and Subscription (SnS), 20Support Information screen, 133Suspend command, 518Swap File Location setting, 104

SWAP TO HOST CACHE FEATURE • TRIGGERED ALARMS VIEW | 803

Swap to Host Cache feature, 614–615, 614–615swapping memory, 573–574switched (FC-SW) Fibre Channel, 288, 288switches

discovery protocols, 249–250, 250distributed. See Distributed Switchesstandard. See Standard Switches

switchport trunk allowed vlan command, 207–208

switchport trunk native vlan command, 205synchronization

confi guration, 51–53, 52Content Libraries, 554VMware Tools, 512–513

synchronous replication, 424Syslog Collector, 174

log reviews, 176redirects, 174–176, 175–176

syslog.global.logHost setting, 174–175Sysprep tool, 532–534, 532System Customization menu, 189, 190system logs, 120–121, 120–121system performance counters, 688–689System Resource Allocation settings, 105System Swap setting, 105

TT10 UNMAP command, 315Tagging Admin role, 467, 473tags

profi le-driven storage, 319–320, 320vCenter Server hosts, 112–115, 113–115VLANs, 203

TAR fi les, 514Target location screen, 427targets in iSCSI, 296–298Tasks privilege, 472Tasks section for vCenter Server hosts, 103TCO (total cost of ownership), 21TCO calculator, 21TCP/IP Confi guration setting, 106TCP/IP routing, 348TCP/IP stacks, 197–198

confi guring, 198–199, 9 199creating, 198ports, 199–200, 200

Teaming And Failover option, 239, 240templates

cloning VMs to, 543–544, 543Content Libraries, 553–556, 555deploying VMs from, 544–553, 545, 5 547–549examining, 551–553exporting VMs as, 549, 9 550overview, 541–543, 542

Test-vMotion function, 723–726testing ESXi Dump Collector, 172–173, 173–174TFTP confi guration, 41–42Thick Provision Eager Zeroed disks

in cloning, 543creating, 496description, 359–360, 360

Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed disksin cloning, 543creating, 496description, 358–359, 9 360

Thin Provision disksarrays, 369–370in cloning, 543creating, 496description, 315, 358, 358

third-party productsDistributed Switches, 258–260MPP modules, 311–312

Time Confi guration dialog box, 51–53Time Confi guration setting, 105time synchronization

confi guration, 51–53, 52VMware Tools, 512–513

timeoutsNFS datastores, 351, 352vCenter Server, 118

tolerance in vSAN policies, 283Topology view for port groups, 236, 238, 239total cost of ownership (TCO), 21TPS (transparent page sharing), 571–572, 578traffi c fl ows, 247–248, 248–249traffi c segmentation of VLANs, 202, 203traffi c shaping, 219–220, 220, 239, 0 239Transfer Service privilege, 472Transient option in IP allocation, 559transparent page sharing (TPS), 571–572, 578Trigger If menu, 678Triggered Alarms view, 679–680, 679

804 | TRIGGERS TAB FOR ALARMS • VAPPS. SEE VIRTUAL APPLIANCES

Triggers tab for alarms, 673–674, 674, 677troubleshooting

iSCSI LUNs, 333–334NFS connectivity, 357

trunk portsvirtual networks, 180VLANs, 203, 205

trunking, 180TRUSTED_ROOT_CRLS store, 457–458TRUSTED_ROOTS store, 457Turn On Fault Tolerance option, 416, 416Turn On vSphere Storage DRS option, 659Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors, 4

UUMDS (Update Manager Download Services),

128, 135–136, 136unattended installation, 35–38unbalanced clusters, 403unidirectional CHAP, 296Universally Unique Identifi ers (UUIDs), 262–263,

344–345Unrestricted script execution, 715Update Manager. See vSphere Update Manager

(VUM)Update Manager Download Services (UMDS),

128, 135–136, 136updates and upgrades

description, 127hosts, 169–170

baseline, 162–163extensions, 161process, 164–167, 165scanning for, 152–154, 153–154VM hardware, 166–168

orchestrated, 167–168vApps and host extensions, 161VMFS datastores, 339–341, 339–341VMware Tools, 159–161, 160VUM. See vSphere Update Manager (VUM)

upgrade command, 36Upgrade ESXi, Preserve VMFS Datastore option,

34upgrading VUM, 138uplinks

groups, 255

ports, 226, 226shared vs. dedicated, 329Standard Switches, 184–188, 184–188,

207, 208upstream VLANs, 251Usage (Average, Rate) counter, 703USB devices

interactive installation on, 35VMs, 483

Use Datastores From The Specifi ed List And Complement Automatically If Needed option,411

Use Datastores Only From The Specifi ed List option, 410

Use Dedicated Failover Hosts option, 402Use Explicit Failover Order option, 217Use The Virtual Machine Name option, 535%USED counter, 693User Directory page in vCenter Server, 117User Lookup Base setting, 739user-role-privilege combinations, 447usernames

vCenter Server virtual appliance, 88VIRuntime library, 733vRO, 739VUM, 133, 133

usersauthenticating, 56–59, 9 435–436creating, 433–437, 77 435deleting, 436–437editing, 435, 436permissions, 464–465in security model, 447

Utilized Space setting, 662UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifi ers), 262–263,

344–345

VVA Upgrades tab, 144VAAI (vSphere Storage APIs for Array

Integration), 139, 314–318, 316–317, 65477VADP (vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection),

15, 139, 420–422Validate A Confi guration Wizard, 390vApp privilege, 472vApps. See virtual appliances (vApps)

VARIABLES IN POWERCLI • VIEWS | 805

variables in PowerCLI, 711–712VASA (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage

Awareness), 318–319, 9 319VASA providers (VPs), 322, 325vCAT (vCloud Director Architecture Toolkit), 72vCenter automation, 729–731vCenter Operations Manager, 114vCenter Server, 55

administration, 60–61authentication, 56–59, 9 461–465availability, 68–70, 70backend database servers, 66, 73

ODBC DSN, 77–79Oracle, 73–75SQL Server, 75–77, 76

business continuity, 73component installation, 79–85, 79, 9 84customization specifi cations, 534–538,

535–537database, 69–70, 70database servers, 66–68editions, 18email and SNMP notifi cations, 675ESXi dump collector, 170–173, 171, 173–174exporting system logs, 120–121, 120–121framework, 61–62, 62General settings, 116–118, 116hardware, 64–66, 65hosts

adding, 98–100, 99confi guring, 103–106, 104Events view, 108–109, 108–109managing, 100–103, 101–102number of, 89profi les, 109–112, 110–111scheduled tasks, 106–108tags, 112–115, 113–115

installing, 72–73, 82–85, 84inventory, 94

clusters, 100datacenter objects, 97–98hosts, 98–100, 99views, 94–97, 95–96

Licensing settings, 118–119, 9 119in linked mode groups, 85–88, 87message of the day, 119miscellaneous tools, 177

overview, 5–7, 77 55–56, 57performance monitoring. See performancePowerCLI connections, 717–718protecting, 69PSC, 59–60recovery model, 83security. See securitysecurity warning, 91–92settings overview, 116Syslog Collector, 174–176, 175–176Sysprep installation on, 532–534, 532vApps, 63, 88–90, 89–91versions, 63–64, 79in VMs, 70–72, 71vRO, 745–746, 746vRO licenses, 742–743

vCenter Server Heartbeat, 69vCenter Solutions Area settings, 120vCenter Virtual Server (vCSA), 128vCLI (vSphere CLI), 726–729vCloud Director Architecture Toolkit (vCAT), 72vCSA (vCenter Virtual Server), 128VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), 503VDP (Virtual Station Interface Discovery and

Confi guration Protocol), 259VDP (VMware Data Protection), 15, 422VDR (VMware Data Recovery), 15VECS (VMware Endpoint Certifi cate Store),

457–459vecs-cli tool, 457–460VEM (Virtual Ethernet Module), 259vendor code in MAC addresses, 289VEPA (Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregation), 259versions

vCenter Server, 63–64, 79VMs, 491–492

VGT (virtual guest tagging), 203vi-admin cmdlet, 729–730, 733–734VIB (vSphere Installation Bundle) fi les, 41–42vicfg-user command, 434–438, 435vicfg-vmknic command, 195vicfg-vswitch command, 195, 727–728video cards, 483views

performance graphs, 681–683, 681–682stacked, 703vCenter Server inventory, 94–97, 77 95–96

806 | VIFP CMDLET • VIRTUAL MACHINES

vifp cmdlet, 728vifptarget cmdlet, 729vihostupdate tool, 170Virtual Adapters setting, 106virtual appliances (vApps), 556–557

cloning, 563–564creating, 557–558, 558deploying, 88–90, 89–91, 463–465editing, 558–562, 559–562IP allocation, 559–560, 560–561power settings, 562, 562power state, 562–563, 563scanning, 152upgrading, 161VUM, 142

Virtual Compatibility mode, 384–385virtual CPUs

hot-adding, 521–522sockets, 522, 522VMs, 492

virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), 503Virtual Device Node option, 497, 77 498virtual disks

aligning, 360–361migrating, 636overview and types, 358–361, 359–362VMs, 496–497, 77 496

Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM), 259Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregation (VEPA), 259Virtual Flash Host Swap Cache Confi guration

setting, 106Virtual Flash Resource Management setting, 105virtual guest tagging (VGT), 203virtual LANs (VLANs), 180

confi guring, 202–207, 77 203–206Fibre Channel equivalent, 291port groups, 236private, 251–253, 252–253

virtual Mac servers, 504Virtual Machine Component Protection (VMCP),

397, 77 398Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastores,

304–306, 305,5 325, 383assigning storage capability to, 341–342, 342copies, 344–345creating, 334–336, 335expanding, 336–339, 9 337–338

LUNsvia FCoE, 327–328via Fibre Channel, 325–326via iSCSI, 328–334, 330–333

multipathing policy, 343–344, 343removing, 345renaming, 342–343upgrading, 339–341, 339–341virtual disks, 359–361, 361VMFS-5, 306, 339–341, 339–341

Virtual Machine Power User role, 469, 9 473Virtual Machine privilege, 472Virtual Machine Properties dialog box, 574, 574Virtual Machine User role, 469, 9 473virtual machines (VMs)

adding and registering, 516–517, 77 516affi nity rules, 646–647anti-affi nity rules, 648automatic restart, 392, 393backups, 420–422, 420clones, 71, 71

overview, 531–532steps, 538–541, 539–540to templates, 543–544, 543

clustering. See clustersconsole, 507CPUs. See CPUscreating, 488–498, 489–491, 493, 496–498deleting, 518deploying from templates, 545, 5 546–553,

547–549enhanced multicast functions, 197exporting as templates, 549, 9 550fi lesystem alignment, 523graphics, 503guest operating systems, 503–507, 77 505–506HA options, 403, 404

component protection, 396–397, 398isolation response, 405–408, 407monitoring, 408–410, 408, 410VM Restart Priority options, 404–405,

404–405hardware, 166–168, 519–523, 519–520, 0 522inside view, 481–483, 482IP addresses, 167isolation, 701memory. See memory

VIRTUAL MACHINES SETTINGS • VMFS | 807

Microsoft licensing and Windows activation,508–509

migrating, 720moving between resource pools, 721–722names, 500–501, 501network confi guration, 721outside view, 484–488, 486–487overview, 481patching, 479port groups

adding, 195–196Standard Switches, 184, 185virtual networks, 180

power states, 517–518, 517provisioning, 502quiesced, 620removing, 518resource allocation. See resource allocationrunning ESXi as, 32scanning, 152–153, 152security, 479size, 498–500snapshots, 524–528, 525, 5 527–528, 720–721storage policies, 365–368, 365–368upgrading, 170values selection, 498–503, 501vCenter Server in, 70–72, 71virtual disks. See virtual disksVMware Tools installation, 509–515, 512, 515vSphere Flash ReadCache for, 612–614, 613

Virtual Machines settings, 413Virtual Machines tab, 670, 670Virtual Mode RDMs (vRDM), 346virtual networks, 179

designing, 179–182, 182distributed switches. See Distributed

SwitchesNexus 1000V, 259security, 260–266, 261–264standard switches. See Standard Switches

virtual NICs, 493–494, 493virtual port storage systems, 285virtual SANs (vSANs), 15–16, 281–284, 283, 291virtual SCSI controllers, 495Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA), 503Virtual Station Interface Discovery and

Confi guration Protocol (VDP), 259

virtual storage adapters, 363–365, 364Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM), 259virtual switches. See Standard SwitchesVirtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (vSMP)

product, 8–9, 9 8Virtual Volumes (VVOLs), 322

overview, 325PEs, 322–323policies, 283–284, 324SCs, 323–324, 323VPs, 322

Virtualization layer in HA, 377, 37877virtualization-optimized devices, 483, 509Virtualization Technology (VT), 625VIRuntime library, 733VLAN ID 4095, 203vlance adapters, 181vlanid boot option, 38--vlanid parameter, 36VLANs (virtual LANs), 180

confi guring, 202–207, 77 203–206Fibre Channel equivalent, 291port groups, 236private, 251–253, 252–253

vLockstep technology, 413VM Hardware Upgrade To Match Host baseline,

166VM Overrides option, 664VM Properties dialog box, 520VM Restart Priority options, 404–405, 404–405VM Settings section in VUM, 141, 141VM Startup/Shutdown setting, 104VM Storage Policies dialog box, 365, 366VM Storage Policies settings, 320, 321vMA (vSphere Management Assistant)

Perl, 731–734vCenter, 729–731vCLI, 726–729

vmaccepteula command, 35VMCA (VMware Certifi cate Authority),

457–459VMCP (Virtual Machine Component Protection),

397, 77 398.vmdk fi les, 383, 486–488, 486–487, 55177VMDKs. See virtual disksVMFS (Virtual Machine File System), 304–306,

305, 3835

808 | VMFS DATASTORES. SEE VIRTUAL MACHINE FILE SYSTEM • VSPHERE COMPATIBILITY MATRIXES

VMFS datastores. See Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastores

VMkernel, 4, 4network confi guration, 191–196, 192–193,

196–197, 77 200–202, 201ports, 188

adding, 194–196, 196Standard Switches, 184, 185virtual networks, 180

swaps, 576–579, 576–577TCP/IP stacks, 197–200, 199

VMkernel adapters, 241–247, 77 242–246vmkernel log fi les, 635vmknic ports. See VMkernel.vmoconfi g fi les, 740vMotion

boundaries, 629compatibility, 629–634, 631–634HA, 628migration steps, 626–629, 9 627–628overview, 9per-virtual machine CPU masking, 629–630,

630requirements, 622–626resource utilization, 618–622, 619–622security, 623–624Storage vMotion. See Storage vMotionand vSwitch, 186

VMs. See virtual machines (VMs)VMs And Templates view in vCenter Server,

95–97VMware Certifi cate Authority (VMCA), 457–459VMware Consolidated Backup User role, 470, 474VMware Converter plug-in, 564VMware Data Protection (VDP), 15, 422VMware Data Recovery (VDR), 15VMware Endpoint Certifi cate Store (VECS),

457–459VMware ESXi overview, 3–5, 4VMware EVC, 631–633, 631–634VMware Horizon View, 503VMware Paravirtual SCSI adapters, 363–364VMware Tools

installing, 509–510in Linux, 513–515, 515in Windows, 510–513, 512

upgrades, 152, 159–161, 160

VMware Tools Upgrade To Match Host baseline,150, 159

VMware vCenter Installer, 79, 79VMware vRealize Orchestrator. See vRealize

Orchestrator (vRO)VMware vSphere PowerCLI Installation Wizard,

714.vmx fi les, 484–486vmxnet adapters, 181, 494Volume Shadow Copy Service, 420, 428VPs (VASA providers), 322, 325vpxuser account security, 465–466vRAM entitlements, 18vRDM (Virtual Mode RDMs), 346vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), 709, 734

accessing, 745appliance, 743–745authentication, 738–740confi guration export/import, 740–741confi guring, 736–737features, 735networks, 738overview, 8plug-ins, 743prerequisites, 735–736server certifi cates, 742starting, 736–737, 77 737, 77 741vCenter Server, 745–746, 746VCenter Server licenses, 742–743workfl ow, 747–749, 9 748

VRMPolicy privilege, 472vSANs (virtual SANs), 15–16, 281–284, 283, 291vService privilege, 472vSGA (Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration),

503VSM (Virtual Supervisor Module), 259vSMP (Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing)

product, 8–9, 9 8vSphere APIs for Array Integration (VAAI), 139vSphere APIs for Data Protection (VADP), 139vSphere CLI (vCLI), 726–729vSphere Client, 7–8

administration, 60–61authentication, 59customization specifi cations, 534–538post-installation, 47–49, 9 48

vSphere Compatibility Matrixes, 66–67, 129

VSPHERE FAULT TOLERANCE. SEE FAULT TOLERANCE • WINDOWS FAILOVER CLUSTERING | 809

vSphere Fault Tolerance. See Fault Tolerance (FT)vSphere Flash Read Cache, 16–17, 77 612–614, 613vSphere high availability. See High Availability

(HA)vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) fi les, 41–42vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Perl, 731–734vCenter, 729–731vCLI, 726–729

vSphere overview. See products and featuresoverview

vSphere Replication, 16vSphere Standard Switches. See Standard

SwitchesvSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration

(VAAI), 314–318, 316–317, 65477vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection

(VADP), 15, 420–422vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness

(VASA), 318–319, 9 319vSphere Update Manager (VUM), 7, 77 125

alternatives to, 168–170, 169baselines, 139–140

attaching, 148–151, 149–151creating, 144–148, 145–147

Baselines And Groups settings, 139–140, 139confi guring, 138–142, 139–141databases, 129–130, 130–131Events settings, 142–143, 143hosts, 161–168, 162–165installing, 127–128, 132–135Notifi cations settings, 143ODBC DSN, 131–132orchestrated upgrades, 167–168overview, 125–127Patch Repository settings, 143patches, 134, 446

alternatives, 168–170baselines, 140displaying, 143host, 126settings, 140staging, 154–155, 155

plug-in installation, 136–137, 77 137remediating hosts, 155–158, 156–158requirements, 128–129scans, 151–154, 152–154

UMDS installation, 135–136, 136Update Manager Utility, 137–138upgrading, 138VA Upgrades settings, 144vApps and host extensions, 161VM hardware, 166–168VMware Tools, 159–161, 160Web Client, 126

vSphere vMotion. See vMotionvSphere Web Client, 7–8

administration, 119–121, 120–121home screen, 92–94, 92improvements, 93installing, 85mapping to optical disks, 504VUM, 126

vSphere Web Client Guest Customization Wizard, 535, 535, 5385

vSwitches. See Standard SwitchesVSWP fi les, 615VT (Virtualization Technology), 625VUM. See vSphere Update Manager (VUM)VVOLs (Virtual Volumes), 322

overview, 325PEs, 322–323policies, 283–284, 324SCs, 323–324, 323VPs, 322

WW32Time service, 513Web Client, 7–8

administration, 119–121home administration, 120–121home screen, 92–94, 92improvements, 93installing, 85VUM, 126

WFC. See Windows Failover Clustering (WFC)Where-Object cmdlet, 712, 721Windows

activation, 508–509VMware Tools installation in, 510–513, 512

Windows Failover Clustering (WFC), 346–347cluster across boxes, 382

failover clusters, 389–390

810 | WINDOWS INTEGRATED AUTHENTICATION • ZONES

fi rst cluster nodes, 385–388, 386–388overview, 383–385, 384second cluster nodes, 388–389

cluster in a box, 383, 383confi gurations, 381–383physical to virtual clustering, 390–391,

391–392Windows Integrated authentication, 132Windows Server

clusters, 385–390, 386–388SSO Sign-On with, 461–462as time server, 53

Windows Service Failover Clustering (WSFC)description, 378–379FT, 419overview, 380–381, 381

workfl ows. See vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)workloads, separating from management, 72worldwide names (WWNs), 289–290

worldwide port names (WWPNs), 289Write Rate counter, 703–704write same functionality, 315WRITES/s statistic, 694WSFC (Windows Service Failover Clustering)

description, 378–379FT, 419overview, 380–381, 381

WWNs (worldwide names), 289–290WWPNs (worldwide port names), 289

XXD (Execute Disable) feature, 625XenServer, 16–17

Zzones, Fibre Channel, 289–291