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VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Amidst all the recent competition from Citrix and Microsoft, VMware's vSphere product line is still the most feature rich and futuristic product in the virtualization industry. Knowing how to install and configure vSphere components is important to give yourself a head start towards virtualization using VMware. If you want to quickly grasp the installation and configuration procedures, especially by using the new vSphere 5.1 web client, this book is for you.VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook will take you through all the steps required to accomplish a task with minimal reading required. Most of the tasks are accompanied with relevant screenshots with an intention to provide a visual guidance as well.The book has many useful recipes that will help you progress through the installation of VMware ESXi 5.1 and vCenter Server 5.1. You will learn to use Auto Deploy and Image Profiles to deploy stateless/stateful ESXi servers, configure failover protection for virtual machines using vSphere HA, configure automated load balancing using vSphere DRS and DPM. Finally, the book guides you through upgrading or patching ESXi servers using VMware Update Manager and also deploying and configuring vSphere Management Assistant (VMA) to be able to run scripts to manage the ESXi servers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating user-defined storage capabilities


If the array backing the LUNs is not VASA capable, then the vSphere administrator can create user-defined storage capabilities. This allows the administrator to manually check the storage properties of the LUN and create a capability matching the same.

How to do it...

The following procedure explains how to create user-defined storage capabilities:

  1. From the inventory Home, click on VM Storage Profiles, which should take you to the storage profiles administration page:

  2. On the VM Storage Profiles screen, click on the icon with a wrench on it to bring up the Manage Storage Capabilities window:

  3. In the Manage Storage Capabilities window, click on the green + icon to bring up the Create Storage Capability window:

  4. In the Create Storage Capacity window, supply a name and description for the capability:

  5. The newly-created user-defined storage capability will be listed along with the provider's list of capabilities:

Note

Unlike the system storage capabilities, the...