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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook The perfect guide to successful VMware Virtual SAN implementation and operations, with recipes to guide you through the process

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782174547
Length 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Hardware Selection for Your VSAN Cluster FREE CHAPTER 2. Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster 3. Storage Policy-based Management 4. Monitoring VSAN 5. VSAN Maintenance Operations 6. Ruby vSphere Console 7. Troubleshooting VSAN 8. Support Success 9. VSAN 6.0 A. Chapter-specific Expansions B. Additional VSAN Information Index

Introduction

Now that we have a functional VSAN cluster, we can leverage the power of Storage Policy-based Management (SPBM) to control how we deploy our virtual machines (VMs). SPBM is where the administrative power of converged infrastructure becomes apparent. You can define VM-thick provisioning on a sliding scale, define how fault tolerant the VM's storage should be, make distribution and performance decisions, and more. RAID-type decisions for VMs resident on VSAN are also driven through the use of SPBM. VSAN can provide RAID-1 (mirrored) and RAID-0 (striped) configurations, or a combination of the two in the form of RAID-10 (mirrored set of stripes).

All of this is done on a per-VM basis. As the storage and compute infrastructures are now converged, you can define how you want a VM to run in the most logical place—at the VM level or its disks. The need for a datastore-centric configuration, storage tiering, and so on is obviated and made redundant through the power of...

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