vSphere Virtual Machine Management – This book focuces in depth on VM management in vSphere. It's a very detailed book which was written by Rebecca Fitzhugh (@RebeccaFitzhug) and has over 300 pages.
Quick look at the content shows you that you'll get everything you need to know to create and manage VMs on vSphere with detailed step-by-steps. It's impossible to mention everything here but the book shows everything, in details.
You'll get the knowledge to construct the environment based on VMs which were designed with best practices in mind. Also the VMs resources are detailed, like shares or limits, or clustering environments with topics like DRS, vMotion or HA.
Quote from Amazon:
This book follows a step-by-step tutorial approach with some real-world scenarios that vSphere businesses will be required to overcome every day. This book also discusses creating and configuring virtual machines and also covers monitoring virtual machine performance and resource allocation options.
The book was reviewed by industry experts like James Bowling, Andy Grant, Christopher Kusek or Brian Wuchner.
Each chapter has several sub-chapters with topics which teaches the reader further details.
The chapters:
- Virtual Machine Concepts
- Creating a virtual machine using the wizard
- Other ways to provision Virtual Machine
- Advanced virtual machine settings
- Managing multitiered applications with vApps
- Virtual Machine performance and resource allocation
- Monitoring virtual machines
- Migrating Virtual machines
- Balancing resource utilization and availability
- Storage distributed resource scheduler (SDRS)
- Virtual Machine design
The book is available at Amazon or Packt Publishing websites.
