The storage provider can help the vSphere administrator know the state of the physical storage devices and the capabilities on which their virtual machines are located. It also helps choose the correct storage in terms of performance and space by using virtual machine storage policies. A virtual machine storage policy helps you ensure that a virtual machine guarantees a specified level of performance or capacity of storage, for example, the SSD/SAS/NL-SAS data store, spindle I/O, and redundancy. Before you define a storage policy, you need to specify the storage requirement for your application that runs on the virtual machine. It has two types of storage requirement, which is storage-vendor-specific storage capability and user-defined storage capability. Storage-vendor-specific storage capability comes from the storage array. The storage vendor provider informs vCenter Server that it can guarantee the use of storage features by using storage-vendor-specific...
Mastering VMware vSphere Storage
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Overview of this book
<p>vSphere Storage is one of the three main infrastructure components of a vSphere deployment (Compute, Storage, and Network).</p>
<p>Mastering VMware vSphere Storage begins with an insightful introduction to virtualization and creating your own virtual machines. We then talk about VMware vCenter Server and virtual machine management, as well as managing vSphere 5 using vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) and esxcli and vmware-cmd commands. We then swiftly move on to a very interesting topic, reviewing the vSphere performance and troubleshooting methodology. We then configure VM storage profiles, Storage DRS, and Storage I/O control. More significantly, we will troubleshoot and analyze storage using the VMware CLI and learn how to configure iSCSI storage.</p>
<p>By the end of the book, you will be able to identify useful information to make virtual machine and virtual data center design decisions.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering VMware vSphere Storage
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with vSphere 5.x and vCenter 5.x
Getting Started with vSphere Management Assistant
Using the Virtual Machine Monitor
Storage Scalability
Optimizing Storage
vSphere Storage Configuration Settings
Analyzing vSphere Storage by CLI
Troubleshooting vSphere FC Storage
Troubleshooting vSphere iSCSI Storage
Troubleshooting vSphere NFS Storage
vSphere Storage Design
ESXi Host Design
Virtual Machine Design
vSphere Virtual Datacenter Design
Index
Customer Reviews