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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

Navigating RVC


Once launched, RVC provides a shell-like method of navigating the vCenter inventory. It lays out vCenter objects in a filesystem-like hierarchy. This hierarchy follows the typical vCenter organizational model used by vCenter, which is visible through other tools like the Managed Object Browser.

For a more complete map of the vCenter inventory layout as it relates to RVC, please see Chapter 6 – vCenter inventory layout in RVC section of Appendix A, Chapter-specific Expansions. For the purposes of VSAN-related operations, we will primarily use the paths root/<vCenter>/<Datacenter>/computers/<Cluster> and root/<vCenter>/<Datacenter>/computers/<Cluster>/resourcePool/vms.

Navigation in RVC is accomplished with familiar *NIX commands for filesystem navigation. The cd command changes directories for navigation through the tree. The ls command lists the items available to you in the current location. .. is the relative path to the parent directory...