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VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook The perfect guide to successful VMware Virtual SAN implementation and operations, with recipes to guide you through the process

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781782174547
Length 208 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hardware Selection for Your VSAN Cluster FREE CHAPTER 2. Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster 3. Storage Policy-based Management 4. Monitoring VSAN 5. VSAN Maintenance Operations 6. Ruby vSphere Console 7. Troubleshooting VSAN 8. Support Success 9. VSAN 6.0 A. Chapter-specific Expansions B. Additional VSAN Information Index

Understanding and using VSAN Maintenance Mode


As VSAN is fully integrated into your regular vSphere deployment and the VSAN maintenance mode is integrated into the regular vSphere ESXi maintenance mode. When VSAN is active on a host and a cluster, new maintenance mode options are presented to specify how you want to handle data availability when using a maintenance mode in your VSAN-enabled infrastructure. Making maintenance mode decisions consistent with the goal of your operation will help streamline the maintenance process and avoid inadvertent storage-related outages.

Tip

Special VSAN maintenance mode options are not available in the legacy vSphere Client. You must use vSphere Web Client.

For the purposes of this recipe, we will use the Ensure Accessibility option for the VSAN maintenance mode in the examples. For a complete description of all VSAN maintenance mode options, please see the There's More… section in this recipe.

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