Index
C
- capacity planning
- about / Chapter 1 – VSAN Capacity Planning
- space consumption, best-practice limits / Best-practice limits to space consumption
- data working set size / Data working set size and capacity-tier sizing
- capacity-tier sizing / Data working set size and capacity-tier sizing
- cluster symmetry / Cluster symmetry
- considerations / Other considerations
- cluster
- VSAN, enabling / Enabling VSAN on your cluster, How to do it…, How it works…
D
- datastore health
- examining / Examining VSAN datastore health, How to do it…, How it works…
- diagnostic information
- collecting / Collecting other diagnostic information
- VSAN support information (Linux RVC), collecting / Collecting VSAN support information (Linux RVC)
- VSAN support information (Windows RVC), collecting / Collecting VSAN support information (Windows RVC)
- VSAN Observer data, collecting / Collecting VSAN Observer Data, How it works…
- disk failures
- investigating / Investigating disk failures, How to do it…, See also
- disk health
- examining / Examining VSAN disk health, How it works…
- disks
- tagging, on local solid-state drives / Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable), Getting ready, How to do it…, How it works…
- adding, to VSAN / Adding disks to VSAN, Getting ready, How to do it…, Expand an existing disk group, How it works…
- removing, from VSAN / Removing disks/disk groups from VSAN, Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works…
- replacing, in VSAN / Replacing disks in VSAN in the event of a disk failure, How to do it…, How it works…
E
- ESXi hosts
- SSH, enabling on / Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable), Getting ready, How it works…
- existing storage policies
- modifying / Modifying existing storage policies, How to do it…, There's more…
- existing switch
- VSAN networking, configuring / Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch, Getting ready, How to do it…, How it works…
F
- Fibre Channel (FC) / Applying storage policies to an existing VM migrating to VSAN
H
- hard disk drives (HDD)
- selecting / Selecting capacity tier disks
- HA requirements, VSAN enablement
- HA behavior, in non-VSAN clusters / HA behavior in non-VSAN clusters
- HA behavior, in VSAN clusters / HA behavior in VSAN clusters
- HA, moving / The benefits of moving HA to the VSAN network
I
- IO operations per second (IOPS) / How to do it…
L
- local solid-state drives
- disks, tagging on / Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable), How to do it…, How it works…
- logging information
- collecting / Collecting logging information
- logs, collecting with vSphere Web Client / Collecting logs with the vSphere Web Client
- logs, collecting with legacy vSphere Client / Collecting logs with the legacy vSphere Client
- logs, collecting via command line with vm-support / Collecting logs via the command line with vm-support
M
- magnetic disks
- selecting / Selecting capacity tier disks
- multi-layer cell (MLC) / Selecting a solid-state drive (SSD) for the cache tier
N
- network considerations
- about / VSAN network considerations
- uplinks / Uplinks
- link speed / Link speed
- link aggregation / Link Aggregation
- multicast / The role of multicast
- unicast / The role of unicast
- jumbo frames / Jumbo frames
- network partitions
- investigating, with vSphere Web Client / Investigating network partitions (with vSphere Web Client), How to do it…, How it works…
- investigating, without vSphere Web Client / Investigating network partitions (without vSphere Web Client), How to do it…
- network standard
- deciding on / Deciding on a network standard, See also
O
- object distribution, VM
P
- per-object quorum / Per object quorum in VSAN
- problem description
- formulating / Formulating a problem description, Getting ready
- problem summary
- formulating / Formulating a problem summary, How it works…
R
- registration problems, storage provider
- investigating / Investigating storage provider registration problems, How to do it…
- resync activity
- RVC
- about / Introduction, There's more…, Introduction
- URLs / Introduction
- navigating / Navigating RVC, Getting ready, How to do it…, How it works…
- scripting / RVC scripting and redirects
- redirects / RVC scripting and redirects
- executing, as single command / Executing RVC operations as a single command
- outputting, to file / Redirecting RVC output to a file
- plain-text passwords usage, avoiding / Avoiding the use of plain-text passwords in the RVC command
- RVC (Linux vCenter Appliance)
- launching / Launching RVC (Linux vCenter Appliance), How it works…, There's more…
- URLs / See also
- RVC (Windows vCenter)
- launching / Launching RVC (Windows vCenter), How to do it…, There's more…
- URL / See also
S
- SAS disks / There's more…
- SATA disks / There's more…
- SCSI sense codes
- URLs / See also
- server platform
- selecting / Selecting a server platform, How to do it…
- single-layer cell (SLC) / Selecting a solid-state drive (SSD) for the cache tier
- Single Sign On (SSO) / There's more…
- solid-state drive (SSD)
- SPBM problems
- investigating / Investigating other SPBM problems, How to do it…, How it works…
- SSDs
- tagging, as disks in vSphere 6.0 / Tagging disks as SSDs in vSphere 6.0, How to do it…
- SSH
- enabling, on ESXi hosts / Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable), Getting ready, How to do it…
- standard switch
- VSAN networking, configuring / Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch, How to do it…, There's more…
- storage controller
- selecting / Selecting a storage controller, There's more…
- storage policies
- applying, to new VM / Applying storage policies to a new VM or a VM deployed from a template, Getting ready, How to do it…, How it works…
- applying, to existing VM migrating to VSAN / Applying storage policies to an existing VM migrating to VSAN, How to do it…, How it works…
- in VM, viewing / Viewing a VM's storage policies and object distribution, How to do it…, There's more…
- changing, on VM already in VSAN / Changing storage policies on a VM already residing in VSAN, How to do it…, There's more…
- Storage Policy-based Management (SPBM) / Introduction
T
- third-party utilities
- about / Third-party utilities
- for HP SmartArray controllers / Utilities for HP SmartArray controllers
- for LSI/Avago-based controllers / Utilities for LSI/Avago-based controllers
V
- vCenter cluster
- preparing, for VSAN / Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN, There's more…
- vCenter object distribution / vCenter object distribution view and VM snapshots
- virtual desktops (VDI)
- about / How to do it…
- VM
- storage policies, applying / Applying storage policies to a new VM or a VM deployed from a template, Getting ready, How to do it…, How it works…
- object health, examining / Examining VM object health, How to do it…, How it works…
- provision failures, investigating / Investigating VM provisioning or power-on failures, Availability-related failures, How it works…, There's more…
- power-on failures, investigating / Investigating VM provisioning or power-on failures, Availability-related failures, How it works…, There's more…
- availability-related failures / Availability-related failures
- VM object health
- examining / Examining VM object health, Getting ready…, How to do it…
- VM snapshots / vCenter object distribution view and VM snapshots
- VM storage policies
- creating / Creating VM storage policies, How to do it…, How it works…
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- using / Using the VMware Compatibility Guides
- URL / How to do it…
- VMware Knowledge Base
- VMware VSAN Compatibility Guide
- URL / How to do it…
- VSAN
- about / Introduction, Introduction, Introduction
- additional compute and memory resources / There's more…
- vCenter cluster, preparing / Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN, There's more…
- enabling, on cluster / Enabling VSAN on your cluster, How to do it…, How it works…
- manual disk claiming / Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable), How to do it…
- datastore health, examining / Examining VSAN datastore health, Getting ready, How it works…
- disk health, examining / Examining VSAN disk health, How it works…
- specific alarms, creating / Creating VSAN-specific alarms, How to do it…, There's more…
- resync activity, examining / Examining VSAN resync activity (vSphere 6.0), How it works…
- maintenance mode / Understanding and using VSAN Maintenance Mode
- maintenance mode, using / How to do it…, There's more…
- maintenance mode, options / There's more…
- disks, adding to / Adding disks to VSAN, How to do it…, Expand an existing disk group
- disks, removing / Removing disks/disk groups from VSAN, Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works…, See also
- disk groups, removing / Removing disks/disk groups from VSAN, Getting ready, How to do it..., See also
- disks, replacing on disk failure / Replacing disks in VSAN in the event of a disk failure, How to do it…, How it works…
- capacity planning / Chapter 1 – VSAN Capacity Planning
- default storage policy / Chapter 3B – VSAN Default Storage Policy
- network considerations / VSAN network considerations
- striping / Understanding VSAN striping
- per-object quorum / Per object quorum in VSAN
- synchronous IO flow / VSAN synchronous I/O flow
- object resynchronization / VSAN object resynchronization
- cluster expansion / VSAN cluster expansion
- VSAN-specific alarms
- creating / Creating VSAN-specific alarms, How to do it…, How it works…
- esx.problem.vob.vsan.pdl.offline event / There's more…
- esx.problem.vob.vsan.lsom.diskerror event / There's more…
- esx.problem.vsan.lsom.congestionthreshold event / There's more…
- esx.problem.vob.vsan.lsom.componentthreshold event / There's more…
- VSAN-specific storage-policy options
- failures / Number of failures to tolerate
- failures, limitations / Limitations
- disk stripes per object / Number of disk stripes per object
- disk stripes per object, limitations / Limitations
- object space reservation / Object space reservation
- force provisioning / Force provisioning
- force provisioning, limitations / Limitations
- flash read cache reservation / Flash read cache reservation
- flash read cache reservation, limitations / Limitations
- vsan.cluster_info command
- vsan.disks_stats command
- vsan.resync_dashboard command
- vsan.vm_object_info command
- vsan.vm_perf_stats command
- about / The vsan.vm_perf_stats command
- VSAN 6.0
- fault domains / VSAN 6.0 fault domains, How to do it…, How it works...
- VSAN 6.0 on-disk format
- upgrading to / Upgrading to the VSAN 6.0 on-disk format, Getting ready, How to do it…, How it works…
- VSAN cluster
- initial validation, performing / Performing initial validation of the new VSAN cluster, How to do it…, There's more…
- recovering / Recovering a VSAN cluster in the event that vCenter is lost/migrating a VSAN cluster to a new vCenter server, How to do it…, How it works…
- VSAN cluster expansion
- about / VSAN cluster expansion
- node, adding to VSAN cluster / Adding a node to the VSAN cluster
- node addition / Node addition and auto-claim
- auto-claim / Node addition and auto-claim
- rebalancing, after node addition / Rebalancing after node addition
- VSAN enablement
- HA requirements / Chapter 2 – HA requirements for VSAN enablement
- VSAN licensing
- applying / Applying VSAN licensing (optional), How it works…
- VSAN networking
- configuring, on new standard switch / Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch, How to do it…, How it works…, See also
- configuring, on existing switch / Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch, Getting ready, How to do it…, There's more…
- changing / Changing VSAN networking, How to do it…
- VSAN node
- permanently decommissioning / Permanently decommissioning a VSAN node, How to do it…
- VSAN object
- distributing / VSAN object distribution
- VSAN object distribution
- about / VSAN object distribution
- VSAN observer
- used, for investigating VSAN performance / Investigating VSAN performance with VSAN Observer, How to do it…, How it works…
- VSAN performance
- investigating, with VSAN observer / Investigating VSAN performance with VSAN Observer, How to do it…, How it works…
- VSAN Ready Node (alternative option)
- VSAN rebuild logic
- on disk failure / VSAN object rebuilds due to a disk fault or failure
- on extended outage / VSAN object rebuilds due to extended outage
- maintenance operations / VSAN object rebuilds during maintenance
- vSphere 6.0
- disks, tagging as SSDs / Tagging disks as SSDs in vSphere 6.0, How to do it…
- vSphere HA
- enabling / Getting ready, How it works…
- vSphere versions
- vSphere 5.5 / How to do it...
- vSphere 6.0 / How to do it...
- vSphere Web Client
- used, for investigating network partitions / Investigating network partitions (with vSphere Web Client), How to do it…, How it works…