Summary

We should now have a basic understanding of the common storage concepts, terms, methodologies, and transports that vSphere uses. We discussed the various types of storage that vSphere supports, including VMFS and NFS along with the many transports it utilizes to access these such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI. We went over how to identify storage LUNS, devices, and paths and have a basic understanding of the Pluggable Storage Architecture and how data flows from a virtualized application right through to its underlying storage.

In the next chapter, we will look at developing a proper troubleshooting methodology as well as review some of the most commonly used tools that can help us when troubleshooting vSphere storage.