VMware vSphere Storage DRS (SDRS) is the placement of virtual machines in an ESX's data store cluster. According to storage capacity and I/O latency, it is used by VMware storage vMotion to migrate the virtual machine to keep the ESX's data store in a balanced status that is used to aggregate storage resources, and enable the placement of the virtual disk (VMDK) of virtual machine and load balancing of existing workloads. What is a data store cluster? It is a collection of ESXi's data stores grouped together. The data store cluster is enabled for vSphere SDRS. SDRS can work in two modes: manual mode and fully automated mode. If you enable SDRS in your environment, when the vSphere administrator creates or migrates a virtual machine, SDRS places all the files (VMDK) of this virtual machine in the same data store or different a data store in the cluster, according to the SDRS affinity rules or anti-affinity rules. The VMware ESXi host cluster has two key features...
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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>
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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