VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

Overview of this book

VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Hardware Selection for Your VSAN Cluster

Hardware Selection for Your VSAN Cluster

Using the VMware Compatibility Guides

Selecting a server platform

Selecting a storage controller

Selecting a solid-state drive (SSD) for the cache tier

Selecting capacity tier disks

Deciding on a network standard

Choosing a VSAN Ready Node (an alternative option)

Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster

Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster

Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN

Applying VSAN licensing (optional)

Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch

Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch

Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable)

Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable)

Enabling VSAN on your cluster

Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable)

Performing initial validation of the new VSAN cluster

Enabling vSphere HA

Storage Policy-based Management

Storage Policy-based Management

Creating VM storage policies

Applying storage policies to a new VM or a VM deployed from a template

Applying storage policies to an existing VM migrating to VSAN

Viewing a VM's storage policies and object distribution

Changing storage policies on a VM already residing in VSAN

Modifying existing storage policies

Monitoring VSAN

Monitoring VSAN

Examining VSAN datastore health

Examining VSAN disk health

Examining VM object health

Creating VSAN-specific alarms

Examining VSAN resync activity (vSphere 6.0)

VSAN Maintenance Operations

VSAN Maintenance Operations

Understanding and using VSAN Maintenance Mode

Adding disks to VSAN

Removing disks/disk groups from VSAN

Replacing disks in VSAN in the event of a disk failure

Changing VSAN networking

Permanently decommissioning a VSAN node

Recovering a VSAN cluster in the event that vCenter is lost/migrating a VSAN cluster to a new vCenter server

Ruby vSphere Console

Ruby vSphere Console

Launching RVC (Windows vCenter)

Launching RVC (Linux vCenter Appliance)

The vsan.cluster_info command

The vsan.disks_stats command

The vsan.vm_object_info command

The vsan.vm_perf_stats command

The vsan.resync_dashboard command

Troubleshooting VSAN

Troubleshooting VSAN

Investigating network partitions (with vSphere Web Client)

Investigating network partitions (without vSphere Web Client)

Investigating storage provider registration problems

Investigating other SPBM problems

Investigating VM provisioning or power-on failures

Investigating disk failures

Investigating VSAN performance with VSAN Observer

Support Success

Support Success

Formulating a problem description

Formulating a problem summary

Collecting logging information

Collecting other diagnostic information

VSAN 6.0

Tagging disks as SSDs in vSphere 6.0

VSAN 6.0 fault domains

Upgrading to the VSAN 6.0 on-disk format

Chapter-specific Expansions

Chapter-specific Expansions

Chapter 1 – VSAN Capacity Planning

Chapter 2 – HA requirements for VSAN enablement

Chapter 3A – VSAN-specific storage-policy options

Chapter 3B – VSAN Default Storage Policy

Chapter 6 – vCenter inventory layout in RVC

Additional VSAN Information

Additional VSAN Information

VSAN network considerations

VSAN object distribution

vCenter object distribution view and VM snapshots

Understanding VSAN striping

Per object quorum in VSAN

VSAN synchronous I/O flow

VSAN object resynchronization

VSAN cluster expansion

VSAN rebuild logic and thresholds

RVC scripting and redirects

Third-party utilities

Index

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Chapter 6. Ruby vSphere Console