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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Amidst all the recent competition from Citrix and Microsoft, VMware's vSphere product line is still the most feature rich and futuristic product in the virtualization industry. Knowing how to install and configure vSphere components is important to give yourself a head start towards virtualization using VMware. If you want to quickly grasp the installation and configuration procedures, especially by using the new vSphere 5.1 web client, this book is for you.VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook will take you through all the steps required to accomplish a task with minimal reading required. Most of the tasks are accompanied with relevant screenshots with an intention to provide a visual guidance as well.The book has many useful recipes that will help you progress through the installation of VMware ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. You will learn to use Auto Deploy and Image Profiles to deploy stateless/stateful ESXi servers, configure failover protection for virtual machines using vSphere HA, configure automated load balancing using vSphere DRS and DPM. Finally, the book guides you through upgrading or patching ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager and also deploying and configuring vSphere Management Assistant (VMA) to be able to run scripts to manage the ESXi servers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi host


LUNs formatted with the VMFS or NFS mounts are generally referred to as datastores. All the datastores seen by an ESXi host can be viewed separately at the vCenter Web Client GUI or using a CLI command.

How to do it...

In this section we will learn both the GUI and CLI methods to list the datastores seen by an ESXi host.

Using the vSphere Web Client to view LUNs

The following steps will help you view the datastores from the vSphere Web Client GUI:

  1. Use the vSphere Web Client to connect to the vCenter host.

  2. Navigate to Home | Hosts and Clusters. Click on the cluster first and then on the host of your choice.

  3. Click on the particular ESXi host to view its page.

  4. Click on the Related Objects tab and then the Datastores sub tab to view all the datastores:

Using the ESXi Console to view the datastores

The following steps will help you list the datastores seen by the ESXi host:

  1. Connect to the ESXi Console using the ILO (for HP), DRAC (for Dell), or SSH to the ESXi...