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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 a datastore cluster


Datastores presented to the ESXi servers can be grouped together into a single I/O and capacity pool called the datastore cluster. The main purpose of creating a datastore cluster is to leverage Storage DRS's functionality to load-balance datastore space utilization and I/O capacity.

For datastores to be in a datastore cluster, they should meet the following requirements:

  • The datastores in a datastore cluster should only be accessible to ESXi hosts from a single datacenter

  • A datastore cluster cannot contain both VMFS and NFS volumes

In this recipe we will learn how to create a datastore cluster.

How to do it

The following procedure will guide you through the steps required to create a datastore cluster:

  1. Use the vSphere Web Client to connect to the vCenter Server.

  2. Navigate to Home | Storage:

  3. Right-click on the datacenter in which you intend to create the datastore cluster and click on New Datastore Cluster… to bring up the New Datastore Cluster wizard:

  4. In the New Datastore...