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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789953008
Length 570 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Masking paths to a storage device

While troubleshooting storage access issues, you can remove access via individual paths to a storage device. This is achieved by using PSA's MASK_PATH plugin to claim the desired paths corresponding to the device.

The following flowchart depicts a high-level overview of the process:

Getting ready

Before you mask paths to a LUN, it is important to ensure that the VMFS volumes corresponding to them are no longer hosting any running VMs. Also, if the LUNs are Raw Device Mappings (RDMs), then they should not be mapped to any of the running VMs.

How to do it...

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