- Copyright 2018
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 1280
- Edition: 2nd
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Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-426810-5
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-426810-1
Now fully updated: The authoritative, comprehensive guide to vSphere 6 storage implementation and management
Effective VMware virtualization storage planning and management has become crucial—but it can be extremely complex. Now, VMware’s leading storage expert thoroughly demystifies the “black box” of vSphere 6 storage and provides illustrated, step-by-step procedures for performing every key task associated with it. Mostafa Khalil presents techniques based on years of personal experience helping customers troubleshoot storage in their vSphere production environments. Drawing on more experience than anyone else in the field, he combines expert guidelines, insights for better architectural design, best practices for planning and management, common configuration details, and deep dives into both vSphere and third-party storage. Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 6, Second Edition will give you the deep understanding you need to make better upfront storage decisions, quickly solve problems if they arise, and keep them from occurring in the first place.
Coverage includes:
- Planning and implementing Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI storage in vSphere virtualized environments
- Implementing vSphere Pluggable Storage Architecture native multipathing, SATP, PSP, plug-ins, rules, registration, and more
- Working with Active/Passive and Pseudo-Active/Active ALUA SCSI-3 storage arrays
- Maximizing availability with multipathing and failover
- Improving efficiency and value by unifying and centrally managing heterogeneous storage configurations
- Understanding Storage Virtualization Devices (SVDs) and designing storage to take advantage of them
- Implementing VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) to maximize performance and resource utilization
- Working with virtual disks and raw device mappings (RDMs)
- Managing snapshots in VMFS and Virtual Volumes environments
- Implementing and administering NFS, VAAI, Storage vMotion, VisorFS, and VASA
- Integrating VSAN core and advanced features
- Using Virtual Volumes to streamline storage operations and gain finer VM-level control over external storage
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Part I: Storage Protocols and Block devices
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Chapter 1 Storage Types
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Chapter 2 Fibre Channel Storage Connectivity
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Chapter 3 FCoE Storage Connectivity
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Chapter 4 iSCSI Storage Connectivity
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Chapter 5 VMware Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
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Chapter 6 ALUA
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Chapter 7 Multipathing and Failover
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Chapter 8 3rd party Multipathing Plug-ins
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Chapter 9 Using heterogeneous storage configurations
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Chapter 10 Using VMDirectPath I/O
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Chapter 11 Storage Virtualization Devices (SVDs)
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Part 2: File Systems
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Chapter 12 VMFS Architecture
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Chapter 13 Virtual Disks and RDMs
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Chapter 14 Distributed Locks
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Chapter 15 Snapshot handling
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Chapter 16 NFS
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Chapter 17 VAAI
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Chapter 18 Storage vMotion (including Enhanced Storage VMotion “aka X-vmotion”)
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Chapter 19 VisorFS
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Chapter 20 VASA
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Chapter 21 Storage Policies
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Chapter 22 Virtual SAN
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Chapter 23 Virtual Volumes (VVols)
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Part 3: Storage Design Considerations
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Chapter 24 Design for Success
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Chapter 25 Performance Optimization and Monitoring
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Chapter 26 LUN sizing design decisions and Best Practices
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Chapter 27 Vendor specific Configuration
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Chapter 28 Hyper Converged Storage and Storage Virtual Appliances (SVAs)
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Chapter 29 Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)