In Chapter 4, Storage Scalability, you learned about the advanced features and setting of storage in a VMware vSphere environment. In this chapter, you will learn how to optimize and monitor vSphere's storage. Firstly, you should know the concept of vSphere's storage clearly, and then know how to tune performance of vSphere's storage. We know that the filesystem of the VMware vSphere ESXi host is VMFS, which can support most storage protocols, for example, FC, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), hardware iSCSI, software iSCSI, and NFS. It has a different configuration based on the storage protocol during the vSphere's storage configuration. Storage performance problems are caused due to many factors, for example, the hardware (HBA adapter, SAN storage, and SAN switch), RAID level, cache size, and queue depth. ESX's path selection policy can directly affect the performance of each virtual machine in vSphere environment. For ESX's path selection policy, you...
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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