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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Abhilash G B
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere is the most comprehensive core suite of SDDC solutions on the market. It helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises private cloud infrastructures. This edition of the book focuses on the latest version, vSphere 6.7. The books starts with chapters covering the greenfield deployment of vSphere 6.7 components and the upgrade of existing vSphere components to 6.7. You will then learn how to configure storage and network access for a vSphere environment. Get to grips with optimizing your vSphere environment for resource distribution and utilization using features such as DRS and DPM, along with enabling high availability for vSphere components using vSphere HA, VMware FT, and VCHA. Then, you will learn how to facilitate large-scale deployment of stateless/stateful ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy. Finally, you will explore how to upgrade/patch a vSphere environment using vSphere Update Manager, secure it using SSL certificates, and then monitor its performance with tools such as vSphere Performance Charts and esxtop. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in the core functionalities of vSphere 6.7 and be able to effectively deploy, manage, secure, and monitor your environment.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

In the previous chapter, we learned how to configure ESXi hosts to access iSCSI and Fiber Channel storage devices or LUNs.

LUNs presented from the array, would not have any filesystem on it. VMware allows you to create a proprietary filesystem called the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS). The most recent version of VMFS is version 6. vSphere 6.7 enables the creation of either a VMFS5 or VMFS6 filesystem on the storage device.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating VMFS datastores
  • Upgrading VMFS datastores
  • Managing Storage Multipathing
  • Expanding or growing a VMFS datastore
  • Extending a VMFS datastore
  • Unmounting VMFS datastores and detaching storage devices
  • Attaching storage devices and remounting VMFS datastores
  • Managing VMFS snapshots