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You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook This recipe-driven tutorial is the easy way to master VMware vSphere to design a virtual datacenter. You'll learn in simple steps that cover everything from initial groundwork to creating professional design documentation.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2014

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782177005

Length 260 pages

Edition Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Hersey Cartwright

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. The Virtual Datacenter

2. The Discovery Process FREE CHAPTER

3. The Design Factors

4. The vSphere Management Design

5. The vSphere Storage Design

6. The vSphere Network Design

7. The vSphere Compute Design

8. The vSphere Physical Design

9. The Virtual Machine Design

10. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

11. The Design Documentation

Index

Storage path selection plugins

Mutlipathing allows more than one physical path to be used to transfer data between the ESXi hosts and the storage array. In the event of a failure in a storage path, the host or hosts can switch to another available path. Multipathing also provides load balancing by distributing the storage I/O across multiple physical paths.

How to do it...

To determine the multipathing policy, we perform the following steps:

Identify the different native multipathing policies available and the capabilities of each policy.
Select a multipathing policy based on the number of paths and the array type used.
Change the default multipathing policy using the esxcli command.
Configure the multipathing policy on the storage devices presented to the ESXi host.

How it works...

The VMware Native Multipathing Plugin (NMP) supports storage arrays listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). NMP provides path selection based on the array type by associating a set of physical paths with...