Recommended Reading
After reading the product overview, select the related manual based on the task you need to perform next. The following table lists recommended manuals by common management goal.
| Next Task | Main Content | Recommended Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Install, log in to, and initialize ZSphere | Prepare the deployment environment, install the management node, configure management node high availability, log in, and complete first-time initialization. | Installation and Initialization |
| Upgrade the ZSphere component | Learn upgrade preparation, management node environment upgrade, management node high availability environment upgrade, and post-upgrade checks. | Upgrade |
| Manage basic virtualization resources | Manage data centers, clusters, hosts, host status, maintenance mode, and hardware devices. | Data Center, Cluster, and Host Management |
| Manage virtual machine lifecycle and configuration | Prepare images, templates, and VM specifications, and create, access, configure, migrate, and maintain virtual machines. | VM Management |
| Configure and maintain storage resources | Understand the data storage model, add and maintain local storage, NFS, SAN storage, and distributed storage, and manage capacity and space. | Storage |
| Configure virtual networks and network services | Configure distributed switches, distributed port groups, Kernel adapters, network topology, and security groups. | Networking |
| Configure resource management and availability policies | Configure compute resource allocation and overcommitment, cluster dynamic resource scheduling, VM scheduling policies, and VM high availability policies. | Resource Management and Availability |
| View monitoring information and handle operations events | View dashboard and resource overview information, performance monitoring, capacity monitoring, alarm notifications, tasks, events, logs, and resource tags. | Monitoring and Operations |
| Manage platform security | Manage identity and access control, platform access security, certificates, AccessKey, key providers, and trusted VM security. | Security |
| Configure data protection and recovery | Configure backup storage, backup plans, VM backup, platform database backup, data recovery, and backup data management. | Data Protection and Recovery |
| Manage bare metal resources | Manage bare metal templates, bare metal clusters, bare metal devices, and bare metal hosts. | Bare Metal Management |
| Deploy and manage platform services | Deploy and manage ZCenter and ZLR services in ZSphere. | Platform Services |
| Deploy or take over distributed storage services | Quickly deploy distributed storage or take over existing distributed storage, and use distributed storage resources in ZSphere. | Storage |