Storage is the foundation of any vSphere design. Properly designed storage is key for vSphere features like High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS), and Fault Tolerance (FT), to operate.
Understanding the physical storage design
How to do it...
Performance, capacity, availability, and recoverability are all factors that must be taken into account when determining the hardware and the configuration of the physical storage. The physical storage design requires that you follow these steps:
- Select a storage hardware that satisfies the logical storage design. This includes the storage array, storage host bus adapters, and any switching, fiber channel, or Ethernet that may be required to support storage connectivity...