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VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Hersey Cartwright, kim bottu
Book Image

VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Hersey Cartwright, kim bottu

Overview of this book

VMware is the industry leader in data center virtualization. The vSphere 6.x suite of products provides a robust and resilient platform to virtualize server and application workloads. With the release of 6.x a whole range of new features has come along such as ESXi Security enhancements, fault tolerance, high availability enhancements, and virtual volumes, thus simplifying the secure management of resources, the availability of applications, and performance enhancements of workloads deployed in the virtualized datacenter. This book provides recipes to create a virtual datacenter design using the features of vSphere 6.x by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process. You’ll follow steps that walk you through the design process from beginning to end, right from the discovery process to creating the conceptual design; calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design; mapping the logical requirements to a physical design; security design; and finally creating the design documentation. The recipes in this book provide guidance on making design decisions to ensure the successful creation, and ultimately the successful implementation, of a VMware vSphere 6.x virtual data center design.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
VMware vSphere 6.x Datacenter Design Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Designing for VMware VSAN


VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is integrated into the ESXi hypervisor. VSAN virtualizes and aggregates the local direct-attached disks in ESXi hosts. This creates a single pool of storage resources from the local disks with each host, which is shared across all hosts in the VSAN cluster, as shown in the following illustration:

How to do it…

To use VSAN for storage in a vSphere virtual infrastructure design, follow these steps:

  1. Identify the hardware requirements to support VSAN.

  2. Verify that disks and controllers are on the VSAN Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).

  3. Size VSAN to support performance and availability.

  4. Enable VSAN on the vSphere Cluster.

How it works…

VSAN presents shared storage to ESXi hosts across a vSphere Cluster. Each host providing storage to the VSAN cluster requires the following:

  • Solid-state disks (SSD) to provide performance

  • Hard disk drives (HDD) or SSDs to provide capacity

  • Disk controller

  • Network connectivity between hosts

As with all hardware in a vSphere environment...