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Getting started with VMware virtual SAN : build optimal, high-performance, and resilient software-defined storage on VSAN for your vSphere infrastructure /
This book is intended for server administrators and storage administrators who would like to successfully build and scale a VSAN-backed vSphere infrastructure. A basic understanding of vSphere concepts and storage fundamentals will be helpful.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt Publishing,
2015.
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| Colección: | Professional expertise distilled.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Software-defined Storage & VSAN; What is a Software-defined Data Center?; The significance of Software-Defined Storage; The storage choices and form factors of Software-Defined Storage; Traditional storage; Software-based storage; Hyper-converged solutions; An introduction to VMware Virtual SAN; Summary; Chapter 2: Understanding Virtual SAN; Why should I use VSAN?; What is VSAN?; Building blocks of VSAN; Disk groups; VMFS-L
- Storage Policy Based ManagementWhere do I start? Back to the drawing board; Software requirements; Disk boot device; Local storage and boot from SAN; USB and SD card as boot devices; Disk controller; Disk flash devices; Magnetic disks; Network requirements; Some simpler options; Virtual SAN ready nodes; EVO: RAIL; Summary; Chapter 3: Workload Profiling and Sizing; Capacity planning guidelines; Profiling workloads; Virtual SAN sizing utility; Virtual SAN shapes and sizes; Custom built; VSAN ready nodes; EVO: RAIL; VMware guidelines for sizing and assumptions; Summary
- Chapter 4: Getting Started with VSAN
- Installation and ConfigurationKey concepts; Disk groups; Virtual SAN network; Prerequisite checklist; Installation workflow; Hardware specifications; Server node; Cluster layout; Network layout; Setting up a VSAN cluster; VSAN ready nodes
- installation; Summary; Chapter 5: Truly Software-defined, Policy-based Management; Why do we need policies?; Understanding SPBM; VSAN datastore capabilities; Accessing the VSAN datastore capabilities; Number of disk stripes per object; Number of failures to tolerate; Flash read cache reservation; Force provisioning
- Object space reservationUnder the hood
- SBPM; vSphere API's for Storage Awareness; Managing Virtual SAN storage providers; Summary; Chapter 6: Architecture Overview; Why such an architecture?; Anatomy of I/O; Write buffer; Destaging data to a magnetic disk; The read cache; READ I/O workflow; Objects, components, and witnesses; What is an object?; A swap object; The virtual machine home namespace; Virtual disks and snapshot delta-disks; Components; A witness; Connecting the dots; Internal building blocks of VSAN; Reliable datagram transport
- Cluster monitoring, membership, and directory servicesCluster level object manager; The distributed object manager; The local log structured object manager; VSAN and high availability; A magnetic disk failure; A flash device failure; A host failure; Summary; Chapter 7: Design Considerations and Guidelines; Network optimizations; Jumbo frames; Speed of network interface; Network IO control; Isolation, shares, and limits; Quality of Service; Storage configuration optimizations; A flash device; Magnetic disks; I/O controllers; Cache-to-capacity ratio; A scale-out design