VMware Vsphere 5.5 Cookbook
A task-oriented guide with over 150 practical recipes to install, configure, and manage VMware vSphere components
2nd Edition
Published on 7. October 2025
560 pages
978-1-78217-286-4 (ISBN)
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Key Features
Book DescriptionThis is an excellent handbook for system administrators, support professionals, or for anyone intending to give themselves a headstart in learning how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment. It is also a good task-oriented reference guide for consultants or infrastructure architects who design and deploy vSphere environments.What you will learn
Upgrade your existing vSphere environment to vSphere 5.5 or build a new one
Autodeploy a large set of stateless/stateful ESXi hosts in your vSphere environment
Configure vSphere networking using standard or distributed virtual switches
Configure and manage FC, iSCSI, and NAS storage
Configure high availability, load distribution, and power savings on an ESXi cluster using vSphere HA, DRS, and DPM
Patch and upgrade the vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager
Use vSphere Management Assistant as a remote commandline interface
Discover the builtin tools available for monitoring the performance of a vSphere environment
Who this book is forThis is an excellent handbook for system administrators, support professionals, or for anyone intending to give themselves a headstart in learning how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment. It is also a good task-oriented reference guide for consultants or infrastructure architects who design and deploy vSphere environments.
Book DescriptionThis is an excellent handbook for system administrators, support professionals, or for anyone intending to give themselves a headstart in learning how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment. It is also a good task-oriented reference guide for consultants or infrastructure architects who design and deploy vSphere environments.What you will learn
Upgrade your existing vSphere environment to vSphere 5.5 or build a new one
Autodeploy a large set of stateless/stateful ESXi hosts in your vSphere environment
Configure vSphere networking using standard or distributed virtual switches
Configure and manage FC, iSCSI, and NAS storage
Configure high availability, load distribution, and power savings on an ESXi cluster using vSphere HA, DRS, and DPM
Patch and upgrade the vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager
Use vSphere Management Assistant as a remote commandline interface
Discover the builtin tools available for monitoring the performance of a vSphere environment
Who this book is forThis is an excellent handbook for system administrators, support professionals, or for anyone intending to give themselves a headstart in learning how to install, configure, and manage a vSphere environment. It is also a good task-oriented reference guide for consultants or infrastructure architects who design and deploy vSphere environments.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Revised edition
File size
21,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78217-286-4 (9781782172864)
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VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
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Packt Publishing
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B Abhilash G :
Abhilash G B is a virtualization specialist, author, and a VMware vExpert (2014-2019). His primary focus is in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the beginning of 2007. He holds several VMware certifications, including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-NV. He is also the author of six other publications.
Abhilash G B is a virtualization specialist, author, and a VMware vExpert (2014-2019). His primary focus is in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the beginning of 2007. He holds several VMware certifications, including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-NV. He is also the author of six other publications.
Content
Table of Contents
Upgrading to vSphere 5.5
Performing a fresh installation of vSphere 5.5
Using vSphere Host Profiles
ESXi Image Builder
vSphere Auto Deploy
Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
Managing iSCSI and NFS storage
Profile Driven Storage and SIOC
Configuring the vSphere Network
Creating and Managing Virtual machines
Configuring vSphere HA
Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM and Vmware EVC
Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager
Using vSphere Management Assistant
Monitoring the performance of a vSphere Environment
Upgrading to vSphere 5.5
Performing a fresh installation of vSphere 5.5
Using vSphere Host Profiles
ESXi Image Builder
vSphere Auto Deploy
Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
Managing iSCSI and NFS storage
Profile Driven Storage and SIOC
Configuring the vSphere Network
Creating and Managing Virtual machines
Configuring vSphere HA
Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM and Vmware EVC
Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager
Using vSphere Management Assistant
Monitoring the performance of a vSphere Environment
