Chapter 4. Virtualization with VMware ESXi
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Installing ESXi
- Installing and using the Vsphere Client
- Allowing SSH access to ESXi
- Creating a new guest
- Allocating resources to a guest
- Using the ESXi command line to start, stop, and destroy guests
- Managing command-line snapshots
- Tuning the host for guest performance
Introduction
Virtualization has been a cornerstone of the server landscape for some considerable time and is used both to consolidate servers to wrangle the most efficient use of the underlying hardware, and to allow for quick and easy deployment of new servers.
Virtualization has been in use for a much longer time than many systems administrators might realize, and has been used in one form or ...
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