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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 Second Edition Effectively deploy, manage, and monitor your virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.7 Martin Gavanda Andrea Mauro Paolo Valsecchi Karel Novak

VMware vSphere® is a virtualization platform that forms the foundation for building and managing an organization's virtual, public, and private cloud infrastructures. VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ (vCSA) sits at the heart of vSphere and provides services to manage various components of a virtual infrastructure like ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and storage and networking resources. As large virtual infrastructures are built using vSphere, vCenter Server becomes an important element in ensuring the business continuity of an organization. vCenter Server must protect itself from a set of hardware and software failures in an environment and must recover transparently from such failures. vSphere 6.5 provides a high availability solution for vCenter Server, known as vCenter Server High Availability, or VCHA. This paper shows: • VCHA performance characterization: A preliminary performance evaluation of the VCHA feature. • VCHA best practices: Some guidelines for VCHA deployment and configuration.

Cormac Hogan is a Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO in the Storage and Availability business unit at VMware. Cormac was one of the first VMware employees at the EMEA headquarters in Cork, Ireland, back in 2005, and has previously held roles in VMware’s Technical Marketing, Integration Engineering and Support organizations. Cormac has written a number of storage-related white papers and has given numerous presentations on storage best practices and new features. Cormac is the owner of CormacHogan.com, a blog site dedicated to storage and virtualization. He can be followed on twitter @CormacJHogan. Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist working for VMware in the Office of CTO of the Storage and Availability business unit. Duncan is responsible for ensuring VMware’s future innovations align with essential customer needs, translating customer problems to opportunities and function as the global lead evangelist for Storage and Availability. Duncan is the owner of VMware Virtualization blog Yellow-Bricks.com and has various books on the topic of VMware including the “vSphere Clustering Deep Dive” series. He can be followed on twitter @DuncanYB. Acknowledgements We would like to thank our VMware management team, Christos Karamanolis and Yanbing Li, for supporting us on this project. A special thanks goes out to our technical reviewers from VMware: Frank Denneman and Pete Koehler. Thanks for keeping us honest and contributing to this book. Lastly, we would like to thank everyone who has been supporting us by buying this book, attending our sessions at VMUGs/VMworld, and visiting our blogs. We truly appreciate it

Frank Denneman is a Senior Staff Architect at VMware R&D focusing on VMware Cloud on AWS. Frank is a VCDX (29) and co-author of the bestselling vSphere Clustering Deep Dive series. Frank presents on a regular basis at global virtualization events and has been a VMworld Top 10 speaker for five consecutive years. You can find his articles at www.frankdenneman.nl. Follow Frank on Twitter @frankdenneman. Niels Hagoort is a freelance Virtualization Architect with more than 15 years of experience. Niels has extensive knowledge in the field of designing, building and implementing complex enterprise IT infrastructures. Niels presents on a regular basis at global virtualization events and is a VCDX (212).

- Isolate common vCenter issues and use proven troubleshooting methods to resolve them - Understand how the different components of vCenter work together and what to do when things do not work the way they should. - A step-by-step guide to dealing with some of the day to day challenges and issues associated with vCenter.

If you are working as a desktop admin, part of a EUC team, an architect, or a consultant on a desktop virtualization project and you are looking to use VMware's Horizon solution, this book is for you. This book will demonstrate the new capabilities of Horizon 6. You should have experience in desktop management using Windows and Microsoft Office, and be familiar with Active Directory, SQL, Windows Remote Desktop Session Hosting, and VMware vSphere infrastructure (ESXi and vCenter Server) technology.