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VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials

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VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
VMware vSphere Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered implementation and configuration of VSAN with vSphere. We learnt what VSAN is, and how it is implemented and configured in a vSphere environment. VSAN is not an external appliance but a part of vSphere, and is very scalable as well. It can be enabled/disabled just like HA/DRS cluster. We also learnt how to deploy and change a VM with storage policies and failure resilience with VSAN.

The next chapter will enable us to perform complex advanced operations with virtual machines. It will feature a few of the very important functionalities offered by vSphere such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, and snapshot management.