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Auto Deploy Best Practices and Security Consideration, Auto Deploy Best Practices
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vSphere Installation and Setup Table 7‑14. Host Profile Options that Prompt for Networking User Input (Continued) Information to Request User Input For Setting the Host Profile Option Prompt the user for the IPv4 address for a distributed switch, its port group, or one of its services. Right-click the Host virtual NIC folder icon and click the Add sub-profile icon to determine the component to which the setting is applied. You can decide to prompt the user only if no default is available or in all cases. 1 Open Networking configuration. 2 Click Host virtual NIC. 3 Click IP address settings. 4 In the IPv4 address field, select how the system handles the IPv4 address for the distributed switch. n User specified IPv4 address to be used while applying the configuration n Prompt the user for IPv4 address if no default is available Prompt the user for the IPv6 address for a distributed switch, its port group, or one of its services. Right-click the Host virtual NIC folder icon and click the Add sub-profile icon to determine the component to which the setting is applied. You can decide to prompt the user only if no default is available or in all cases. 1 Open Networking configuration. 2 Open Host virtual NIC. 3 Open IP address settings. 4 In the Static IPv6 address field, select how the system manages the IPv6 address for the distributed switch. n User specified IPv6 address to be used while applying the configuration n Prompt the user for IPv6 address if no default is available Auto Deploy Best Practices and Security Consideration Follow best practices when installing vSphere Auto Deploy and when using Auto Deploy with other vSphere components. Set up a highly available Auto Deploy infrastructure in large production environments or when using stateless caching. Follow all security guidelines that you would follow in a PXE boot environment, and consider the recommendations in this chapter. Auto Deploy Best Practices This section discusses several Auto Deploy best practices. See the VMware Knowledge Base for additional best practice information. Auto Deploy and vSphere HA Best Practices You can improve the availability of the virtual machines running on hosts provisioned with Auto Deploy by following best practices. n Some environments configure the hosts provisioned with Auto Deploy with a distributed switch or configure virtual machines running on the hosts with Auto Start Manager. In those environments, deploy the vCenter Server system so that its availability matches the availability of the Auto Deploy server. Several approaches are possible. n In a proof of concept environment, deploy the vCenter Server system and the Auto Deploy server on the same system. In all other situations, install the two servers on separate systems. n Deploy vCenter Server Heartbeat. VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat delivers high availability for VMware vCenter Server, protecting the virtual and cloud infrastructure from application, configuration, operating system, or hardware related outages. 200 VMware, Inc.