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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Abhilash G B, Cedric Rajendran

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization product suite that helps transform data centers into simplified on-premises cloud infrastructures, providing for the automation and orchestration of workload deployment and life cycle management of the infrastructure. This book focuses on the latest release of VMware vSphere and follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on instructions required to deploy and manage a vSphere environment. The book starts with the procedures involved in upgrading your existing vSphere infrastructure to vSphere 6.5, followed by deploying a new vSphere 6.5 environment. Then the book delves further into the procedures involved in managing storage and network access to the ESXi hosts and the virtual machines running on them. Moving on, the book covers high availability and fair distribution/utilization of clustered compute and storage resources. Finally, the book covers patching and upgrading the vSphere infrastructure using VUM, certificate management using VMCA, and finishes with a chapter covering the tools that can be used to monitor the performance of a vSphere infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Managing multipathing configuration of a VMFS datastore

Storage LUNs presented to the ESXi hosts preferably need to be made highly available. This is achieved by enabling multiple connectivity paths between the ESXi hosts and the SAN storage. Once configured correctly, these paths can then be used either to failover or load balance the I/O activity.

In this section, we will learn how to view the current multipathing configuration for a particular LUN.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you view and manage multipathing configuration:

  1. Log in to the vCenter Server using the vSphere web client and use the key combination Ctrl+Alt+4 to switch to the storage view.
  2. Select the desired datastore, navigate Configure...