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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook Practical recipes to deploy, configure, and manage VMware vSphere 6.7 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789953008

Length 570 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Abhilash G B

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER

2. Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere

3. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches

4. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches

5. Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment

6. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

7. SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage

8. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

9. Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment

10. Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles

11. Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder

12. Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts

13. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

14. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager

15. Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates

16. Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Managing Storage Multipathing

The availability of storage presented to the ESXi hosts is essential for the functioning of a vSphere environment. One of the factors that increases storage availability is maintaining resilient connectivity to the storage system. Resiliency is achieved by forming redundant paths to the storage presented to the ESXi hosts. The paths can either be used for failover or load balancing.

In this recipe, we will learn about how to review the current multipathing configuration for each storage device.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you to view and manage multipathing configuration:

Connect to vCenter Server using the HTML5 client and navigate to the Hosts and Clusters inventory view...

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Authors (1)

Abhilash G B

Abhilash G B is a virtualization specialist, author, and a VMware vExpert (2014-2019). His primary focus is in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the beginning of 2007. He holds several VMware certifications, including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-NV. He is also the author of six other publications.

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