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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


In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Launching RVC (Windows vCenter)

  • Launching RVC (Linux vCenter Appliance)

  • Navigating RVC

  • The vsan.cluster_info command

  • The vsan.disks_stats command

  • The vsan.vm_object_info command

  • The vsan.vm_perf_stats command

  • The vsan.resync_dashboard command

Starting with vSphere 5.5, VMware began shipping the Ruby vSphere Console (RVC) with the vCenter Server (Windows and Linux varieties). RVC is a command line utility, made for interacting with, managing, and monitoring various aspects of the vSphere infrastructure. Included with RVC are a large number of commands specific to VSAN monitoring and maintenance operations. The RVC interface will provide significantly more information about VSAN and its objects than can be determined from the vSphere Web Client alone. In addition, you can perform certain VSAN-related maintenance and troubleshooting tasks, which will be covered in the next chapter.

While RVC ships with the vCenter Server, it is also...