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About the authors
Abhilash G B (@abhilashgb) is a virtualization specialist, author, designer, and a VMware vExpert 2014-2017 who specializes in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing.
He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and working on VMware products and technologies since the start of 2007. He sold several VMware certifications including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP4/5 -DCA, VCP3/4/5/6-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP6-NV. He is also the author of the five other books.
I dedicate this book to my family. Without their patience and support, this book would not have been possible. Thanks to the Technical Reviewer Mathias Meyenburg for his valuable input. Special thanks to the entire Packt team for their support during the course of writing this book.
Cedric Rajendran is a senior staff engineer in technical support with VMware. He has around 13 years of experience covering a wide spectrum of technologies.
He holds a masters degree specializing in International Business. He has served in the fields of Network Ops, Technical Support, and Consulting. His core strengths are on the server and storage virtualization.
He has authored a book on VMware Virtual SAN, holds advanced certifications with VMware, and is also a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect.
I dedicate this book to my family, Samantha, Ankita, Dom, Annie, mum, and dad for their encouragement and support.
Special thanks to my dear daughter, Samantha. Her intriguing questions about pony were a welcome interruption when work gets tiring.
As with my first project, proceeds from this book would be donated to the children at Gerizim.
About the reviewer
Mathias Meyenburg is an accomplished business unit manager, solution architect, and senior consultant with more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry.
From a system administrator to large-scale data center operations and administration, his career has evolved through constantly updating and expanding his know-how as well as acquiring advancing certifications, CCNA, MCP, and VCP to name a few.
In 2016, he was recruited by vleet GmbH as a solution architect and senior consultant for server and desktop virtualization specializing in vSphere, vROPS, NSX, and vSAN.
I would like to express my gratitude to my wife Andrea who had to carry the burden while I was occupied with this book and my career and who lovingly looked after our kids while studying herself.
What this book covers
, Upgrading to vSphere 6.5, will teach you how to upgrade your existing environment to the vSphere 6.5, and you will also learn how to migrate vCenter running on Windows to appliance.
, Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5, will show you how to perform a fresh deployment of VCSA 6.5 and installation of ESXi 6.5. You will also learn how to deploy External Platform Services Controller.
, Using vSphere Host Profiles, will show you how to use Host Profiles to push a configuration change, performing host customizations, remediating noncompliant hosts. You will also learn how to copy settings between host profiles.
, Using ESXi Image Builder, you will learn how to use ESXi Image Builder using both the new vSphere Web Client GUI and CLI. You will learn how to create image profiles from either an existing image profile and fresh profile from scratch.
, Using vSphere Auto Deploy, you will learn how to deploy stateless and stateful ESXi host without the need to have to run the ISO installation on the server hardware.
, Using vSphere Standard Switches, you will learn how to set up vSphere Networking using the standard Switches.
, Using vSphere Distributed Switches