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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

Introduction


Once VSAN is deployed and in production, you will want to be able to monitor the health and capacity of the cluster, disks, and VMs and their various components.

This chapter will describe the GUI-based monitoring elements of Virtual SAN, and will show you how to monitor the high-level health of the cluster and create useful alarms to notify you of issues within your VSAN deployment.

Note

In VSAN, many of the cluster monitoring features are available via the special command-line environment called the Ruby vSphere Console (RVC). While this chapter will cover monitoring options in the vSphere Client, please see Chapter 6, Ruby vSphere Console for a guide to more-robust monitoring tools in RVC.