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VMware vSphere: Advanced Storage Configuration and Administration

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Overview

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Learn how to configure and administer vSphere storage, including iSCSI, VMFS, NFS, and software-driven solutions such as VSAN and Virtual Volumes.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Before watching this course
1. Storage Virtualization
  • VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) and NFS (Network File System)
  • Array thin provisioning
2. Fibre Channel and FCoE
  • Fibre Channel basics
  • Fibre Channel zoning
  • Fibre Channel masking
  • FCoE basics
  • FCoE adapters
3. iSCSI
  • iSCSI basics
  • iSCSI initiator types
  • iSCSI target discovery
  • Configuring a software iSCSI initiator
  • Configuring iSCSI port bindings
  • Discovering LUNs
  • Creating a VMFS data store
  • Configuring iSCSI CHAP
  • iSCSI boot LUNs
4. Working with Block Storage
  • Upgrading VMFS3 to VMFS5
  • Create a new virtual machine
  • Using raw device mappings
  • Modifying VMFS data stores
  • Data-store clusters
  • Configuring storage policies
5. Advanced Storage Concepts
  • Managing storage filters
  • Storage multipathing basics
  • SATPs (storage array type plugIns) and PSPs (path selection plugins)
  • Configuring PSPs
  • Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
  • APD (all-paths-down) and PDL (permanent device loss) conditions
  • VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) and VASA (vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness)
  • VAAI primitives
  • Sharing virtual disks across VMs
6. NFS
  • NFS basics
  • Creating an NFS data store
  • Manage NFS data stores
  • NFS 3 and NFS 4.1
7. Virtual Volumes (VVOL)
  • VVOL basics
  • VVOL objects
  • Storage providers and VVOLs
  • Configuring VVOLs
8. Virtual SAN (VSAN)
  • VSAN basics
  • VSAN objects and network
  • VSAN fault domains
  • Configuring VSAN
  • Configure storage policies for VSAN
  • Using VSAN Observer
9. Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
  • SIOC basics
  • Configuring SIOC
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Rick Crisci

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