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Mastering VMware vSphere Storage

By : Victor Wu, Eagle Huang
Book Image

Mastering VMware vSphere Storage

By: Victor Wu, Eagle Huang

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
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned what VAAI and VASA are. In a vSphere environment, the vSphere administrator learned how to configure the storage profile in vCenter Server and assign to the ESXi data store. We covered the benefits of vSphere Storage I/O Control and vSphere Storage DRS.

In the next chapter, we will see how to monitor the ESXi host's storage performance and manage the storage in a vSphere host using the command line. When you found that it has a storage performance problem in the vSphere host, we saw how to troubleshoot the performance problem, and found out the root cause.