This title offers real-world VMware vSphere4 tips and techniques. Written by internationally recognized VMware expert Mike Laverick, this is an in-depth implementation guide to VMware's new suite of virtualization technologies, vSphere4. The book provides best practices for deploying the vSphere product in real-world enterprise environments. You will get insider tips for planning, designing, implementing, and securing a virtual infrastructure and automating tasks and procedures.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Install and Configure ESX 4 Classic; Chapter 2. Install and Configure ESXi 4; Chapter 3. Install vCenter; Chapter 4. Standard Networking; Chapter 5. Distributed Virtual Networking; Chapter 6. Storage; Chapter 7. Creating and Modifying Virtual Machines; Chapter 8. Rapid VM Deployment; Chapter 9. Access Control; Chapter 10. Resource Monitoring; Chapter 11. Resource Management; Chapter 12. VMotion, Storage VMotion, and Cold Migration; Chapter 13. VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler; Chapter 14. VMware Distributed Power Management; Chapter 15. VMware High Availability; Chapter 16. VMware Fault Tolerance; Chapter 17. vSphere Advanced Configuration Tools; Chapter 18. Virtual Machine Backup; Chapter 19. VMware Patch Management; Chapter 20. Upgrading from VI3.5 to vSphere 4; Index

About the Author

Mike Laverick is a VMware Forum moderator and member of the London VMware User Group steering committee. He is the sole author of the virtualization website/blog, RTFM Education. Mike recently received the vExperts Award from VMware.