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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

By : Jeffrey Taylor
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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

By: Jeffrey Taylor

Overview of this book

VMware Virtual SAN is a radically simple, hypervisor-converged storage, designed and optimized for vSphere virtual infrastructure. VMware introduced the software to help customers store more and more virtual machines. As data centers continue to evolve and grow, managing infrastructure becomes more challenging. Traditional storage solutions like monolithic storage arrays and complex management are often ill-suited to the needs of the modern data center. Software-defined storage solutions, like VMware Virtual SAN, integrate the storage side of the infrastructure with the server side, and can simplify management and improve flexibility. This book is a detailed guide which provides you with the knowledge you need to successfully implement and manage VMware VSAN and deployed infrastructures. You will start with an introduction to VSAN and object storage, before moving on to hardware selection, critical to a successful VSAN deployment. Next, you will discover how to prepare your existing infrastructure to support your VSAN deployment and explore Storage policy-Based Management, including policy changes, maintenance, validation, and troubleshooting VSAN. Finally, the book provides recipes to expedite the resolution process and gather all the information required to pursue a rapid resolution.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Applying storage policies to a new VM or a VM deployed from a template


When creating a new VM on VSAN, you will want to apply a storage policy to that VM according to your administrative needs. As VSAN is fully integrated into vSphere and vCenter, this is a straightforward option during the normal VM deployment wizard.

Note

The workflow described in this recipe is for creating a new VM on VSAN. If deployed from a template, the wizard process is functionally identical from step 4 of the How to do it… section in this recipe.

Getting ready

You should be logged into vSphere Web Client as an administrator or a user authorized to create virtual machines.

You should have at least one storage policy defined (see previous recipe).

How to do it…

  1. Navigate to Home | Hosts and Clusters | Datacenter | Cluster.

  2. Right-click the cluster, and then select New Virtual Machine…:

  3. In the subsequent screen, select Create a new virtual machine.

  4. Proceed through the wizard through Step 2b. For the compute resource, ensure that...