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VMware vSphere 6.7 with ESXi and vCenter – Study Guide
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First edition published October 2009
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Seventh edition updated for vSphere 5.5, December 2014
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Time Line & Table of Contents
Day 1 Topics

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Course Overview
VMware vSphere Overview
Install and Configure Standalone ESXi
Virtual & Physical Networking

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Connecting to and Using NAS Shared Storage
Virtual Hardware and Virtual Machines
Installing and Configuring vCenter Server Appliance
Day 3 Topics

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Virtual Machine Rapid Deployment
vCenter and ESXi Permission Model
Using Fibre and iSCSI Shared Storage

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VMware's Cluster File System
vCenter Alarms
Resource Management and Resource Pools
VM Cold, Hot and Storage Migration

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Day 5 Topics

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Load Balanced Distributed Resource Scheduler Clusters
VMware High Availability Clusters
Performance Monitoring and Tuning
Final Thoughts
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Author's Note

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Twenty five years ago, I started my IT career as a UNIX/C programmer. By 1992, I was working
as a very busy UNIX administrator so I gave up the safety of full time work for consulting. As a
hedge against down time, I contacted a major training company and offered my services. Soon,
I was teaching their UNIX and C programming classes (very popular at the time). Over time, my
love of UNIX morphed into a love of Linux so by 2002 I was teaching Linux for RedHat.

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In 2004, I had the very good fortune to be contacted by VMware. Would I like a job working as a
trainer? I said “no” and asked if they wanted a contractor. They said no. I had this conversation
with VMware three times in 2004 until they finally agreed to hire me as a contractor. I sat the
ESX I & II classes and earned my VMware Certified Professional on ESX 2.0 (VCP# 993).

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I worked as a contract resource for VMware for about 4 years. I got to watch ESX grow from a
niche product used primarily for testing into a full blown production platform. VMware was a
young, company creating technical magic (VMotion was absolutely unbelievable in 2003). IMHO,
their software magicians were, and still are without equal. They have since delivered Storage
VMotion, High Availability, DRS clusters, Fault Tolerant VMs and much, much more.
In 2008, I left VMware to work again as an independent. I enjoy training and was still a huge
advocate of VMware's technology, so I decided to start a company to provide vendor
independent VMware training courses that anyone could run. The result is this book set.

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This Study Guide fully explains how each vSphere feature works. The accompanying Lab Guide
takes you through the mechanics. Each lab starts at the very beginning and takes you through
all the steps needed to complete the job. There is no magic in this course because nothing is
done for you. In most cases, you can perform the labs at work exactly the same way and get
the same result (just be careful and don't break anything!).

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Developing courseware is much like developing software (my first job). You write, re-write,
review, edit update, test until you truly believe that it is bug free. The reality is that bugs
exist – and no doubt, some are still lurking in this book set. If you find one, please let me
know. I'll fix the issue and the next version of the courseware will be better for your input. As a
bonus, I will provide a free ESXLab Certified Virtualization Specialist exam voucher to the first
person who reports each unique bug
VMware vSphere has rekindled my love of IT, and I've seen it do the same for others. Demand
for VMware vSphere skills is growing – and so will your career once you master VMware vSphere
6.0. My hope is that this class will help you get there much faster.

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vSphere 6.7 – Author's Note

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There are many new things to like in vSphere 6.7. DRS and HA clusters have new features to
better load balance and recover VMs. VMFS 6 was introduced. While I don’t address VMFS 6
(much) in this course, it does hold a lot of promise for better storage management.

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VMware now officially backs Host Client as the new management tool for stand alone ESXi
hosts. The good news is that it provides a simple, web based interface that works with any
HTML 5 compliant browser. The bad news is that it is not feature complete compared to
vSphere Client. Even worse, it is buggy and can crash without much provocation. To address
this issue, I added an extra lab step to have you download and install the latest version of Host
Client.

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Even better, Web Client is now actually pleasant to use. The slow, clunky and somewhat
disorganized (IMHO) experience of 6.0 Web Client was (mostly) gone... replaced with a layout
that is faster, easier to use, with flatter, better organized navigation. VMware vSphere (C#)
client is officially gone. Unofficially, vSphere Client 6.0 does work with with ESXi 6.5 but simply
refuses to work with vCenter 6.5. If you are still using vSphere Client, it is time to abandon it
in favor of newer, web based clients.

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Ironically, VMware does not really teach students how to install either ESXi or the vCenter
Server Appliance in their own Authorized training. Instead, pre-installing them for you. My class
takes you through the complete install process for all software used – including ESXi and vCSA.
In my view, that's why people spend good money for training; to learn how to work around the
issues and get the job done... and that's what I have tried to deliver in my course.
I hope you enjoy this course. Please e-mail me (larry.karnis@esxlab.com) if you would like to
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ESXLab offers video on demand vSphere training on the features and functions you
need to know. We have training packages that are ideal for new or experienced
VMware vSphere administrators
Each class teaches specific set of vSphere features and capabilities. ESXLab offers
Video On Demand training that covers all of the major capabilities of the vSphere
license you own. The benefit is you get training on the features and functions you own without wasting your
time (and money) getting training on features that are not included in your license.

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Benefits of Video On Demand Training

Video on Demand training provides you with the following benefits:
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VMware vSphere 6.7
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Virtualization
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Introduction to vSphere 6.7 features
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VMware vSphere
VMware ESXi
Management, Performance, Monitoring
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CPU / Memory Resource Balancing
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Permissions and Access Controls
Storage Resource Balancing
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VMotion, DRS Load Balancing Clusters

Storage VMotion, Storage DRS
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Enterprise class server virtualization software

HA Clusters, Fault Tolerant VMs

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VMware provides a complete suite of products both for virtualization as well as for
management, back up, disaster recovery, testing, replication and much more. These
products make migrating to virtualization deployments very beneficial.
The primary risk of virtualization is too many eggs in one basket... That is, you create risk if you consolidate workloads into virtual machines but lack the ability to:

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- Load balance storage capacity and performance across storage volumes
- Rapidly recover VMs that fail when a physical host fails
- Easily manage and monitor VMs
- Deploy VMs from known good images
If you cannot load balance, then you run the risk of poor VM performance (due to
host resource over-commit).
If you cannot automatically place and restart VMs due to a physical server failure,
then you may have critical production VMs down for hours if a host fails. Furthermore, if a physical host that supports a large VM population fails catastrophically,
then your VMs might be down for days (until the hardware can be repaired).

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VMware Virtual Infrastructure provides solutions for all of the above. Other products
are maturing but do not yet offer the same breadth or depth of functionality as
VMware.

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Virtualization – Before & After
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Before Virtualization

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Traditional PC Server Deployments

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Captive local disk
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Virtual Deployment
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Require fewer physical servers
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Can run many workloads as Virtual Machines
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Workloads not locked to server (cold migration, VMotion, Storage VMotion)
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Load balancing and high availability options depend on shared disk
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Higher hardware utilization rates
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Lower marginal cost to deploy new workloads (just make a new VM)
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Better reliability and performance due to more capable hardware
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New options for Disaster Recovery, Back Up

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Virtualization Overview
Stand Alone ESXi
Virtual & Physical Networking
Virtual Machines, Rapid Deployment
vSphere Management
NAS and SAN Shared Storage
Resource management and delegation
VM Migration, Load Balanced Clusters
Virtual Machine High Availability Clusters
Scalability and Performance

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The above items are key topics in this class but not a complete list of topics. For a
complete list of topics, please consult the Table of Contents.

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Key Topics

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Lunch
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09:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m.
12:00 p.m.
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Informal

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Schedule

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Problems & Opportunities
Identify common
pain points. E.g.
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Provisioning
Deployment
Management
Imaging
Back Up & DR
Etc.

Explain how Virtual
Infrastructure
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New methods
Streamlined
procedures
Less risk
Faster results
Reduced costs
Simplify
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Virtualization addresses most of the common pain points experienced by modern PC
server deployments. As we go through this class you will learn how virtualization delivers the above benefits – and much more.

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Introductions
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Experience with virtualization is not a prerequisite for this class... If you do have
prior virtualization experience either with VMware products or other products –
please feel free to share them with the class.

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New certification track for
IT virtualization pros
Two tracks
1. CVP Level 1

For vSphere operators and
entry level admins

2. CVP Level 2

This course teaches you
everything you need to
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CVP provides you with an affordable way to achieve vSphere certification
without the need to attend high-cost classes that VMware’s VCP-DCV certification requires.
You can purchase CVP exam vouchers here:

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Use the Promo Code ESXCVP to save 25% off the cost of the voucher

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You can find out more about Certified Virtualization certification at:
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Certified Virtualization Professional

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Review & Questions
VMware vSphere...
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A suite of software products that improves

Resource usage – consolidation, load balancing
Availability – rapid recovery, FT duplication
Scalability – DRS clusters, Storage clusters
Management – vCenter Server

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VMware vSphere
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Major features of vSphere 6.7
Common IT problems
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Scaling vSphere deployments
On premise private cloud computing

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vSphere solutions to these problems

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Workload Consolidation

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VMs compete for available ESXi
host CPU, RAM, Disk, Network
VMs get the resources they need
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VMware ESXi Hypervisor

Not declared resources
Idling VMs may give up CPU, RAM

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Share Ethernet, storage bandwidth

Administrators can tune VMs
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Weighted scheduling for CPU
memory, disk I/O bandwidth
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Ensures active VMs run well under
CPU, memory over commit
i.e.:when virtual resource declaration
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Virtualization solves the one-workload/server problem without the traditional costs,
risks or complexities of installing many applications on a single server.
A PC server running VMware ESXi is capable of running many virtual machines concurrently. Each virtual machine is an independent software entity that functions as a
complete, generic PC server. Each virtual machine has:

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- A virtual hardware layer that includes a generic motherboard, chipset, keyboard,
mouse, video controller, IDE controller, CD/DVD device, NIC, PCI bus, SCSI
controller, SCSI disk(s), CPU(s) and memory sized appropriately for the intended
operating system and application
- An operating system that recognizes and can drive virtual hardware
- One or more applications

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CPU Over Commit – boot and run a mix of
VMs whose vCPU core count exceeds the
server's pCPU core count
Memory Over Commit – boot and run a
mix of VMs whose memory declaration
exceeds physical server RAM
Storage Over Commit – create many
virtual disks on a single storage volume
whose collective declared size exceeds the
size of the physical storage volume

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CPU & Memory Management
VMotion, Load Balanced DRS Clusters
Hot migrate VMs between ESXi hosts
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With no risk, no loss of responsiveness

Create clusters of 2-64 ESXi hosts that can
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Start VMs on the least busy ESXi host
Automatically move VMs to balance out

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Migrate a VM to a new host, new datastore
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VM Availability Management

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Create a fully replicated VM on a secondary
ESXi host in an HA cluster
Keep replicate VM fully synchronized
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Automatically detect an ESXi host failure
Assign failed VMs to healthy ESXi hosts
Tell new VM owner to power on VMs
Assign VMs to ensure resource availability

CPU state, Memory state, copy of VM's .vmdks

If ESXi host running the primary VM fails:
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Connect and run secondary VM image
Result is no visible down time by network peers

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VM Storage Management
Manually Hot migrate the disk state of a VM
to another datastore
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Automated storage load balanced clusters
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Balance storage capacity and I/O load

Storage Profiles
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Assign a Storage Profile to a datastore
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Assign a Storage Profile to a VM
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E.g.: VM belongs on High Density, Replicated

Perform compliance checks. Remediate

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Back Up & Recovery
Virtual Solutions
File system back ups
Expensive, complex, not always 100% reliable

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Backup/recovery/application/open file agents, etc.
May be difficult to do both bare metal, file restores

AKA Disk Block Change Tracking
Marks disk blocks changed since last back up
Snapshot VM, copy changed blocks, commit
Full virtual disk image and file recovery

Many solutions use this approach
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VMware Data Protection (retired August 2017)
Veeam, Naviko, Phd Virtual / Unitrends
Many others...

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you like. However, VM networking is not as efficient as pure physical networking, so you
should expect your back up windows (time to complete a back up) to increase when using network based back up tools in a VM.
There are a number of solutions to this problem...

VMware Data Protection (VDP) performs snapshot based back ups with full virtual disk
de-duplication, so backups are fast and complete. And Data Recovery provides you with
the ability to do both file level and full virtual machine level recoveries.

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Up (www.phdvirtual.com) or Veeam Backup & Replication (www.veeam.com) leverage
ESXi storage APIs to quickly and safely back up VMs. These tools are easy to install and
use, are (relatively) low in cost (unlike traditional network back up tools) and make it
easy to recover individual files or complete VMs.

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VM Disaster Preparedness
Hot, reliable, periodic replication of running
VMs to another ESXi host
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Within the same site or to a remote site

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in your target site

Prior replications can be presented to recovered
VMs as snapshots
Allows you to revert to earlier replications to
back out of unwanted changes

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Viruses attacks
Mis-configurations
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Facilitates very rapid VM recovery

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Server Refresh
PC servers have a
short life span

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Virtual hardware

3-5 yrs depending on
available maintenance ● Easy to migrate VMs
support contracts
to another ESXi host

OS, application
migrations are time
consuming, risky
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VM H/W is independent
of physical hardware

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Workload down during
migration
Done off hours
Hard to do remotely
Inherently risky

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Install, configure ESXi
Add ESXi host to cluster
Migrate VMs to new host
When old ESXi host is
fully evacuated of VMs,
shutdown, power off host

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Virtual Machine hardware is a software abstraction that is independent of physical
PC server hardware. ESXi maps virtual hardware operations to physical hardware activity.
Virtual machines see:

A virtual motherboard with a chipset, keyboard, mouse, IDE, floppy controller
A virtual PCI video controller
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One to four virtual IDE CD/DVD devices
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One to two virtual floppy drives
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A virtual PCI bus
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Up to 10 virtual Network Interface Cards (NICs)
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One to 4 virtual SCSI Host Bus Adapters (SCSI HBAs)
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Up to 15 virtual SCSI disks per SCSI HBA
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Up to 8-64 virtual CPUs that map to physical CPU cores (depending on your vSphere
license and cannot exceed the physical cores in your ESXi host)
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Virtual memory that is indistinguishable from physical memory
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hardware. Therefore a VM can migrate from ESXi host to ESXi host (even if the ESXi
hosts are different makes or models of hardware) without issue.

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Test, Development & QA

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Clone - Exact copy of
the source VM
Test changes on clone

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Too costly to deploy
an exact match
Differences introduce
variation, risk

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Hot clone VMs
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Hard to validate
changes, test software,
catch errors if production, test/development
environments differ

Configuration changes
OS patches
Application upgrades
Validate procedures

VM snapshots let you
back out of changes
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Saves VM state
No need to re-image if
problems encountered
● Revert back to original
● Try again!

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Windows Licensing for VMs
Windows Server 2008 license editions
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Windows Server Enterprise
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Each license key licenses 2 pCPUS and up to
four VMs per host at no additional charge

Windows Server Datacenter
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Each VM needs its own license

Each license entitles one pCPU, unlimited VMs
per licensed pCPU at no additional charge

Always check your license agreements
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Microsoft may grant you the right to run additional instances of Windows 2003/2008
Server depending on the base license installed...
Windows 2003/2008 Standard licenses do not permit additional VM instances so every
VM would require a unique Windows Standard license.
Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise permits a limited number of Windows VMs (up to 4) to
be run on the same machine running the original license without additional charge.
Windows 2003/2008 Datacenter permits an unlimited number of Windows VMs to run
on the same host running the original Windows license at no additional cost.

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VM can go down dramatically if you select the appropriate Windows edition (Enterprise
or Datacenter). You also get the added benefit of the enhanced features (e.g.: Clustering) offered by premium Windows editions).
Windows Datacenter simplifies license compliance because you are entitled to run an
unlimited number of VMs/server. You are also entitled to downgrade your Windows editions in the same family (e.g.: If you have W2k8 Datacenter, you can deploy W2k8 Standard or Enterprise in your VMs).

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Windows Server 2012
Standard Edition license entitlements
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2 pCPU sockets per license
2 VMs permitted per license
You must buy more W2k12 Standard licenses if

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Enterprise Edition - no longer available
Datacenter Edition license entitlements
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One license required for every 2 pCPUs
Unlimited number of VMs / licensed pCPUs

Source: ws2012_licensing-pricing_faq.pdf from
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thing that differentiates the editions is the number of Virtual Machines (VMs). A
Standard edition license will entitle you to run up to two VMs on up to two processors (subject to the VM use rights outlined in the Product Use Rights document). A
Datacenter edition license will entitle you to run an unlimited number of VMs on up
to two processors.”

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Windows Server 2016
W2k16 now licenses pCores, not sockets

Each host must be licensed for the maximum
number of VMs to run on that host
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Standard Edition: Max. 2 VMs / licensed host
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For 2 more VMs, you must license all pCores again

Datacenter Edition: No VM limit
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This includes VMotion, hosts down for mtce, etc.

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Minimum license purchase is 16 cores across one
or more pSockets

All pCores must be licensed with DataCenter

Downgrade rights are typically offered

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thing that differentiates the editions is the number of Virtual Machines (VMs). A
Standard edition license will entitle you to run up to two VMs on up to two processors (subject to the VM use rights outlined in the Product Use Rights document). A
Datacenter edition license will entitle you to run an unlimited number of VMs on up
to two processors.”

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vSphere Small Business Licenses
Essentials Essentials +
3
no limit
3
128

3
no limit
3
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Processor Cores/socket
vCenter Server Nodes
VSMP (Max vCPUs/VM)
VMware HA
vSphere Replication
VM Hot Add CPU, Memory
VMotion

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Features from www.vmware.com as of May, 2018
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VMware has created special license bundles that are targeted at small business.
These license bundles provide smaller customers with virtualization and management
capabilities for less than the cost of one (competent) PC server.
The Essentials Plus bundle adds hot migration (VMotion) rapid VMware failure recovery (VMware HA), automated patching and updating capability for ESXi hosts and
Windows (Update Manager). These added features make Essentials Plus a compelling
offering.

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their mid tier to enterprise licenses. To get retail pricing information on VMware licenses and add-ons, please visit:

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VMware vSphere 6.7 Editions
128
12TB
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8 vCores
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https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere.html
VMware doesn't (to the best of my knowledge) publically disclose product prices for
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Maximum vCPUs per VM
128
Maximum Physical RAM per ESXi host
6TB
Update Manager
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VMotion
Storage VMotion, Encrypted VMotion
High Availability Clusters
Fault Tolerance
vSphere VM Hot Replication
vShield Endpoint Antivirus Support
Virtual Volumes. Policy Based Mgt
APIs for Storage Awareness
vCenter Backup / Restore
vCenter High Availability
Content Library
APIs for Array Integration / Multipathing
Big Data Hypervisor Extensions
DRS Load Balancing, Power Mgt
vNetwork Distributed vSwitches
Network, Storage I/O Control
Cross vCenter VMotion, Long Distance VMotion
Auto Deploy ESXi Hosts, Host Profiles
Storage DRS / Profile Driven Storage

vSphere
vSphere
vSphere
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vSphere Platinum Edition
Combines native security with integrated
VMware AppDefense technology

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Uses Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,
Behavioral Analytics to monitor VMs
Establishes VM baselines that describe VM
known good behaviors
Will alert administrators to observed suspicious
VM behaviors

Enables quick administrator responses to unusual VM
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Auto-discovery of VMs, apps, behaviors
Orchestrated or auto response to issues
Integrates with 3rd party operations tools

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cid=70134000001kwF0&src=ps_5c0aa8a8c486e&kw=vsphere
%20platinum&mt=p&k_clickid=_k_CjwKCAjwycfkBRAFEiwAnLX5IcacW4Zsz7ce_sO3U28GgDwNDU7s47yOqDP_pfors0NxIgMnvRabBoCg_EQAvD_BwE_k_

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vSphere Acceleration Kits
Acceleration Kits typically include:
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May also include add-on licenses such as:
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VMware vSAN
vRealize Operations Management

pCPU entitlements can be added
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Buy additional CPU entitlements as your
server population grows
Not available for Small Business Essentials,
Essentials Plus license bundles
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These max out at 3 servers of 2 pCPUs each
vCenter for SBE, SBE+ is ESXi host limited to
managing a maximum of 3 ESXi hosts
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Support And Subscription (SnS)
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Provides 1-3 years of unlimited support
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Upgrades included with current SnS contracts

For non-active licenses (SnS expired)
Minor releases upgrades OK (e.g. 6.0 → 6.5)
No major releases upgrades (e.g. 5.5 → 6.x)
Out of support customers may reactivate by:

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Paying all back support
Paying for the next year(s) support
A 20% reinstatement penalty is also charged on

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All back support
Next full year of support

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VMware sells its licenses with Service and Support (SnS) as a non-optional component. This entitles you to one year of support with unlimited incidents within the
support hours specified in your support contract.
Software support must be renewed yearly. If you keep support renewed, you are entitled to upgrade vSphere licenses to future releases both within the same major release number (e.g.: upgrade from vSphere 5.0/5.1 to vSphere 6.5) or across major
release numbers (e.g.: upgrade from vSphere 5.x to vSphere 6.5 when it becomes
available).

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block you from downloading newer versions of the software.
You may bring your licenses back into support by paying:
- support for the current year
- support for all years your licenses were out of support
- a 20% penalty on top of the above

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extreme cases, cost more than purchasing brand new licenses!

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Other Licensing Options
vSphere 6.7 evaluation mode
60-day use of entire vSphere 6.7 suite
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Register, download at http://www.vmware.com

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Enables stand alone ESXi hosts
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License does not permit
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Unlimited pCPU, vRAM, storage on the host

Managing the ESXi host with vCenter
Access to vCenter, cluster features, capabilities
Use of advanced storage capabilities

https://www.vmware.com/go/get-free-esxi

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Provides access to vSphere, vSAN, NSX
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https://www.vmug.com/Join/EVALExperience

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Single Host Deployment

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ESXi or vSphere
Standard Edition

Benefits
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VMs share ESXi host
pCPU, pRAM, Disk,
Network
Manage with Host
Client
Low-cost or free

Lower capital cost
Lowers power use
Faster deployments
Easier upgrades

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there are many benefits to consolidating onto ESXi there is one major risk – you have
many workloads now dependent on the health of a single machine.

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Migrated VMs
onto shared
SAN storage

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No VMotion, DRS, HA
without vCenter
Some fault tolerance
If an ESXi host fails
Use Datastore Browser
to import VMs onto
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By moving your VMs onto shared storage, you untie your VMs from a single physical host.
You also break the storage limits that may be imposed on you by your server platform.
But, best of all, you now have a simple way to recover VMs that fail due to a server
failure. As we will see later, VMware provides a piece of software called the Datastore
Browser. The Datastore Browser has the ability to reassign ownership of powered off
VMs to other hosts.
So, if a server does fail...

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- Launch the Datastore Browser
- Identify the VMs that failed when the ESXi host failed
- Take ownership of these VMs using the Datastore Browser by adding them to the
surviving ESXi host's inventory
- Power on these VMs on the new host
While this approach is somewhat labor intensive, it does solve the problem of VMs being
down because a host is down. You can automate VM recovery with VMware HA.

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ESXi, VM, LAN,
Storage mgt.

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VMotion
Storage VMotion
High Availability
Load balancing
Fault Tolerance
vSphere Storage APIs
etc.
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Cold migration
Monitoring, Alarms
Scheduled Tasks

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On Premise Private Cloud
Dynamically provision hardware on demand
Provision what's needed, when needed...
Storage – Storage Area Networks (SANs)
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LUNs usable by any or all ESXi hosts

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Physical hardware abstracted, shared

PC Servers – install ESXi to deploy, run VMs
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Provision new ESXi hosts as VM population grows
Dynamically load balance to maintain performance

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Storage Cloud
Storage Area
Networks (SANs)
Aggregate physical disks
into LUNs
Presents LUNs to ESXi
VMFS cluster filesystem
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Grow LUNs as needed
Provision LUNs on
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Snapshot, back up LUNs
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Add new PC Servers
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recovery, performance
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Add to DRS cluster:

VMs rebalance by migrating onto new server
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Year Released

ESX
2.x

ESXi
3.x

ESXi
4.x

ESXi
5.0, 5.1

ESXi
5.5

ESXi
6.0, 6.5

ESXi
6.7

2002

2003

2005

2008

2011

2013

2015

2018

1

2

4

8

32/64

64

128

128

Max RAM/VM

2GB

3.6GB

64GB

256GB

1TB

1TB

4TB

6TB

Network I/O

.5Gb

.9Gb

9Gb

30Gb

>36Gb

>80Gb >160Gb

>320Gb

Storage IOp/s

< 5k

7k

100k

300k

1,000k

1,000k

1,000k

>2,000k

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96

128

160

320

480

768

64GB

256GB

1TB

2TB

4TB

12TB

CPU Cores/ESXi
Max RAM/ESXi

16TB

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Performance – VMs more than fast enough for
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enterprise workload.
Over time, VMware has significantly increased the maximum virtual hardware available to a VM (more vCPUs, more RAM, more NICs, etc.). VMware has improved the
throughput of virtual networks and virtual disks (as vCPU speed is determined by the
speed and capabilities of the physical CPUs and virtual memory speed is determined
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physical network. For fastest virtual networking speed, deploy teamed 10Gb or 40Gb
NICs.
Virtual storage performance is improved through the use of very high speed storage
adapters (8/16Gb Fibre cards, 10Gb iSCSI adapters) and through the use of virtualization aware Storage Area Networks (SANs). For example, VMware can now delegate
many storage operations directly to the back end SAN (including file copy for VM
cloning) using VMware APIs for Array Integration (VAAI). This dramatically improves
storage performance because the VM being copied can be copied within the SAN (and
doesn't have to be copied to the ESXi host and back to the SAN as part of the copy
operation).

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http://longwhiteclouds.com/2013/09/23/vsphere-5-5-record-breaking-network-performance/

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What's New in vSphere 6.7
vCenter improvements
Resource use and performance

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Simpler vCenter scalability
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VMotions can now be encrypted
VM encryption now easier to implement

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likely be less due to server restrictions). However, VMware and a select number of
hardware partners support up to 12TB of RAM in very high end PC servers.

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Partitioned local storage for ESXi, VM use
Connected to ESXi using Host Client
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