Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 6: A Technology Deep Dive, 2nd Edition

Now fully updated: The authoritative, comprehensive guide to vSphere 6 storage implementation and management

Effective VMware virtualization storage planning and management has become crucial—but it can be extremely complex. Now, VMware’s leading storage expert thoroughly demystifies the “black box” of vSphere 6 storage and provides illustrated, step-by-step procedures for performing every key task associated with it. Mostafa Khalil presents techniques based on years of personal experience helping customers troubleshoot storage in their vSphere production environments. Drawing on more experience than anyone else in the field, he combines expert guidelines, insights for better architectural design, best practices for planning and management, common configuration details, and deep dives into both vSphere and third-party storage. Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 6, Second Edition will give you the deep understanding you need to make better upfront storage decisions, quickly solve problems if they arise, and keep them from occurring in the first place.

Coverage includes

• Planning and implementing Fibre Channel, FCoE, and iSCSI storage in vSphere virtualized environments
• Implementing vSphere Pluggable Storage Architecture native multipathing, SATP, PSP, plug-ins, rules, registration, and more
• Working with Active/Passive and Pseudo-Active/Active ALUA SCSI-3 storage arrays
• Maximizing availability with multipathing and failover
• Improving efficiency and value by unifying and centrally managing heterogeneous storage configurations
• Understanding Storage Virtualization Devices (SVDs) and designing storage to take advantage of them
• Implementing VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) to maximize performance and resource utilization
• Working with virtual disks and raw device mappings (RDMs)
• Managing snapshots in VMFS and Virtual Volumes environments
• Implementing and administering NFS, VAAI, Storage vMotion, VisorFS, and VASA
• Integrating VSAN core and advanced features
• Using Virtual Volumes to streamline storage operations and gain finer VM-level control over external storage

Table of Contents

Part I Storage Protocols and Block Devices
Chapter 1 Storage Types
Chapter 2 Fibre Channel Storage Connectivity
Chapter 3 Fcoe Storage Connectivity
Chapter 4 Iscsi Storage Connectivity
Chapter 5 Vsphere Pluggable Storage Architecture
Chapter 6 Alua
Chapter 7 Multipathing And Failover
Chapter 8 Third-Party Multipathing I/O Plug-Ins
Chapter 9 Using Heterogeneous Storage Configurations
Chapter 10 Using Vmdirectpath I/O
Chapter 11 Storage Virtualization Devices (Svds)

Part II File Systems
Chapter 12 Vmfs Architecture
Chapter 13 Virtual Disks And Rdms
Chapter 14 Distributed Locks
Chapter 15 Snapshot Handling
Chapter 16 Nfs
Chapter 17 Vaai
Chapter 18 Storage Vmotion
Chapter 19 Visorfs
Chapter 20 Vasa
Chapter 21 Vsan Core Features
Chapter 22 Vsan Advanced Features
Chapter 23 Virtual Volumes (Vvols)