VMware virtual SAN cookbook the perfect guide to successful VMware Virtual SAN implementation and operations, with recipes to guide you through the process
What You Will Learn Prepare your infrastructure for VMware Virtual SAN Plan and build infrastructure solutions to suit your needs Implement VMware Virtual SAN Exploit the power of policy-based management Increase or decrease the scale of your Virtual SAN as needs change Monitor your Virtual SAN infr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham, UK
Packt Publishing
2015
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| Series: | Quick answers to common problems
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Replacing disks in VSAN in the event of a disk failureChanging VSAN networking; Permanently decommissioning a VSAN node; Recovering a VSAN cluster in the event that vCenter is lost/migrating a VSAN cluster to a new vCenter server; Chapter 6: Ruby vSphere Console; Introduction; Launching RVC (Windows vCenter); Launching RVC (Linux vCenter Appliance); Navigating RVC; The vsan.cluster_info command; The vsan.disks_stats command; The vsan.vm_object_info command; The vsan.vm_perf_stats command; The vsan.resync_dashboard command; Chapter 7: Troubleshooting VSAN; Introduction
- Applying storage policies to an existing VM migrating to VSANViewing a VM's storage policies and object distribution; Changing storage policies on a VM already residing in VSAN; Modifying existing storage policies; Summary; Chapter 4: Monitoring VSAN; Introduction; Examining VSAN datastore health; Examining VSAN disk health; Examining VM object health; Creating VSAN-specific alarms; Examining VSAN resync activity (vSphere 6.0); Chapter 5: VSAN Maintenance Operations; Introduction; Understanding and using VSAN Maintenance Mode; Adding disks to VSAN; Removing disks/disk groups from VSAN.
- Investigating network partitions (with vSphere Web Client)Investigating network partitions (without vSphere Web Client); Investigating storage provider registration problems; Investigating other SPBM problems; Investigating VM provisioning or power-on failures; Investigating disk failures; Investigating VSAN performance with VSAN Observer; Chapter 8: Support Success; Introduction; Formulating a problem description; Formulating a problem summary; Collecting logging information; Collecting other diagnostic information; Chapter 9: VSAN 6.0; Introduction; Tagging disks as SSDs in vSphere 6.0
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Hardware Selection for Your VSAN Cluster; Introduction; Using the VMware Compatibility Guides; Selecting a server platform; Selecting a storage controller; Selecting a solid-state drive (SSD) for the cache tier; Selecting capacity tier disks; Deciding on a network standard; Choosing a VSAN Ready Node (an alternative option); Chapter 2: Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster; Introduction; Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN.
- Applying VSAN licensing (optional)Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch; Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch; Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable); Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable); Enabling VSAN on your cluster; Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable); Performing initial validation of the new VSAN cluster; Enabling vSphere HA; Chapter 3: Storage Policy-based Management; Introduction; Creating VM storage policies; Applying storage policies to a new VM or a VM deployed from a template