vSphere Virtual Machine Management -- Table of Contents -- vSphere Virtual Machine Management -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Virtual Machine Concepts -- vSphere virtual machines -- Virtual machine components -- Uses of virtual machines -- The primary virtual machine resources -- CPU -- Memory -- Network -- Disk -- Virtual machine files -- Configuration files -- Swap files -- Virtual disks -- Snapshot files -- Other files -- Viewing virtual machine files -- Using the vSphere Client -- Using the vSphere Web Client -- Using command line -- VMware Tools -- Summary -- 2. Creating a Virtual Machine Using the Wizard -- vSphere Client versus vSphere Web Client -- Creating a VM using the typical configuration wizard -- Name and Location -- Storage -- Guest Operating System -- Network -- Create a Disk -- Ready to Complete -- Editing the settings -- Creating a VM using the custom configuration wizard -- Name and Location -- Storage -- Virtual Machine Version -- Guest Operating System -- CPUs -- Memory -- Network -- SCSI controller -- Creating a new virtual disk -- Using an existing virtual disk -- Raw Device Mappings -- Do not create disk -- Ready to Complete -- Creating a VM using vSphere Web Client -- Select a name and folder -- Select a compute resource -- Select storage -- Select compatibility -- Select a guest OS -- Customize hardware -- Ready to complete -- Summary -- 3. Other Ways to Provision a Virtual Machine -- Configuring virtual machine customizations.

Copying Sysprep files to vCenter directory -- Creating a customization -- New VM Guest Customization Spec -- Set Registration Information -- Set Computer Name -- Enter Windows License -- Set Administrator Password -- Run Once -- Configure Network -- Set Workgroup or Domain -- Set Operating System Options -- Ready to complete -- Creating a virtual machine from a template -- Creating a template -- Deploying VMs from the template -- Select a name and folder -- Select a compute resource -- Select storage -- Select clone options -- Creating a virtual machine by cloning -- Creating a virtual machine from an OVF file -- Select source -- Review details -- Accept EULAs -- Select name and location -- Select storage -- Setup networks -- Customize template -- Ready to complete -- Creating a virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter -- Source System -- Source Machine -- Destination System -- Destination Virtual Machine -- Destination Location -- Options -- Summary (pane) -- Summary -- 4. Advanced Virtual Machine Settings -- Introducing the virtual machine monitor -- Understanding monitor modes -- Enabling CPU hot plug / memory hot add -- The CPUID mask -- The CPU affinity setting -- Setting the .vswp location -- Viewing other advanced options -- The General Options section -- The VMware Remote Console Options section -- The VMware Tools section -- The Boot Options section -- Installing VMware Tools -- Installing VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine -- Installing VMware Tools in a Linux virtual machine -- Summary -- 5. Managing Multitiered Applications with vApps -- What is a vApp? -- Creating a vApp -- vApp options -- IP addressing policies -- Virtual machine startup/shutdown order -- Exporting a vApp -- Cloning a vApp -- Summary -- 6. Virtual Machine Performance and Resource Allocation -- Resource performance concepts -- CPU virtualization.

Memory reclamation -- Transparent page sharing (TPS) -- Ballooning -- Compression -- Swapping to host cache -- Hypervisor swapping -- Network constraint -- Storage constraint -- Understanding resource controls -- Shares -- Limits -- Reservations -- Resource pools -- Creating a resource pool -- Expandable reservations -- Network I/O Control -- Storage I/O Control -- vSphere Storage APIs -- Disk alignment -- Performance tuning -- Traditional performance practices -- Performance problems -- Troubleshooting performance -- Summary -- 7. Monitoring Virtual Machines -- Performance charts -- Overview performance charts -- Advanced performance charts -- Using esxtop -- Monitoring CPU -- Monitoring memory -- Monitoring network -- Monitoring storage -- The esxtop options -- Using alarms -- Creating condition-based alarms -- Creating event-based alarms -- Other places to find information -- Summary -- 8. Migrating Virtual Machines -- vMotion -- Configuring for vMotion -- Migration using vMotion -- Migration using Storage vMotion -- Cross-host Storage vMotion -- Summary -- 9. Balancing Resource Utilization and Availability -- Clusters -- Creating a cluster -- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) -- Overview of DRS -- Enabling and configuring DRS -- DRS recommendations and monitoring DRS -- Affinity/Anti-affinity rules -- High Availability -- Overview of HA -- Configuring HA -- Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) -- Overview of SDRS -- Configuring SDRS -- Applying SDRS recommendations -- Anti-affinity rules -- Summary -- 10. Virtual Machine Design -- Comparing provisioning methods -- Provisioning using templates -- Using clones for provisioning -- Using virtual appliances -- OVF templates -- Virtual hardware and resource configuration -- Virtual machine maximums -- Memory -- CPU -- Storage -- The Disk Provisioning types -- Disk Mode.

The SCSI controller -- Raw Device Mapping (RDM) -- The virtual network adapters -- Other considerations -- Renaming virtual machines -- Upgrading virtual hardware version -- Using tags -- NTP configuration -- Disabling unused virtual hardware -- VMware Tools -- Summary -- Index.