VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook
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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

About this book

The perfect guide to successful VMware Virtual SAN implementation and operations, with recipes to guide you through the process

About This Book

  • Design a Virtual SAN infrastructure from selecting hardware to full capacity.
  • Deploy and manage a software-defined storage solution with VMware Virtual SAN
  • Prepare for architectural and scale changes as your enterprise grows and develops

Who This Book Is For

If you are an administrator of a VMware vSphere infrastructure and want to simplify storage delivery by integrating storage into vSphere, this book is for you. No extensive storage background is needed as VMware Virtual SAN integrates into the existing vSphere solutions with which you are already familiar.

What You Will Learn

  • Prepare your infrastructure for VMware Virtual SAN
  • Plan and build infrastructure solutions to suit your needs
  • Implement VMware Virtual SAN
  • Exploit the power of policy-based management
  • Increase or decrease the scale of your Virtual SAN as needs change
  • Monitor your Virtual SAN infrastructure effectively
  • Respond to and troubleshoot problems

In Detail

VMware Virtual SAN is a radically simple, hypervisor-converged storage, designed and optimized for vSphere virtual infrastructure. VMware introduced the software to help customers store more and more virtual machines.

As data centers continue to evolve and grow, managing infrastructure becomes more challenging. Traditional storage solutions like monolithic storage arrays and complex management are often ill-suited to the needs of the modern data center. Software-defined storage solutions, like VMware Virtual SAN, integrate the storage side of the infrastructure with the server side, and can simplify management and improve flexibility.

This book is a detailed guide which provides you with the knowledge you need to successfully implement and manage VMware VSAN and deployed infrastructures.

You will start with an introduction to VSAN and object storage, before moving on to hardware selection, critical to a successful VSAN deployment. Next, you will discover how to prepare your existing infrastructure to support your VSAN deployment and explore Storage policy-Based Management, including policy changes, maintenance, validation, and troubleshooting VSAN. Finally, the book provides recipes to expedite the resolution process and gather all the information required to pursue a rapid resolution.

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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook


Table of Contents

VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
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Free access for Packt account holders
Instant updates on new Packt books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Hardware Selection for Your VSAN Cluster
Introduction
Using the VMware Compatibility Guides
Getting ready
How to do it…
Selecting a server platform
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more…
Selecting a storage controller
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more…
Selecting a solid-state drive (SSD) for the cache tier
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more…
See also
Selecting capacity tier disks
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more…
See also
Deciding on a network standard
Getting ready
How to do it…
See also
Choosing a VSAN Ready Node (an alternative option)
Getting ready
How to do it…
See also
2. Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster
Introduction
Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more…
See also
Applying VSAN licensing (optional)
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable)
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable)
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Enabling VSAN on your cluster
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable)
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Performing initial validation of the new VSAN cluster
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Enabling vSphere HA
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
3. Storage Policy-based Management
Introduction
Creating VM storage policies
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Applying storage policies to a new VM or a VM deployed from a template
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Applying storage policies to an existing VM migrating to VSAN
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Viewing a VM's storage policies and object distribution
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Changing storage policies on a VM already residing in VSAN
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Modifying existing storage policies
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Summary
4. Monitoring VSAN
Introduction
Examining VSAN datastore health
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Examining VSAN disk health
Getting ready…
How to do it…
How it works…
Examining VM object health
Getting ready…
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Creating VSAN-specific alarms
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Examining VSAN resync activity (vSphere 6.0)
Getting ready…
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
5. VSAN Maintenance Operations
Introduction
Understanding and using VSAN Maintenance Mode
Getting ready
How to do it…
There's more…
See also
Adding disks to VSAN
Getting ready
How to do it…
Expand an existing disk group
How it works…
See also
Removing disks/disk groups from VSAN
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Replacing disks in VSAN in the event of a disk failure
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Changing VSAN networking
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Permanently decommissioning a VSAN node
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Recovering a VSAN cluster in the event that vCenter is lost/migrating a VSAN cluster to a new vCenter server
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
6. Ruby vSphere Console
Introduction
Launching RVC (Windows vCenter)
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works...
There's more…
See also
Launching RVC (Linux vCenter Appliance)
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works… ...

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