Introduction
  • Introduction
  • VMware vSphere 6
  • Course Goals and Objectives
  • Course Goals and Objectives (continued)
  • New Skills
  • Presented by Larry Karnis
  • Should You Take This Course?
  • Let's Get Started!
Shared Storage
  • Fibre, iSCSI SAN and NFS v4.1 NAS Shared Storage
  • Shared Storage
  • Project Plan
  • Problems & Opportunities
  • Entry Level SAN Features
  • High End SAN Features
  • Fibre Storage Area Networks
  • Fibre Switched Fabric Topology
  • World Wide Names
  • Fibre SAN Zoning Options
  • Runtime Hardware Paths
  • Hardware Paths
  • iSCSI
  • iSCSI Capabilities
  • iSCSI Motivation
  • iSCSI Block Diagram
  • iSCSI Redundancy Options
  • iSCSI Qualified Names
  • LUN Discovery Options
  • iSCSI Hardware Initiators
  • iSCSI Software Initiators
  • Add the iSCSI SW Adapter
  • Change iSCSI SW Adapter IQN
  • Enter IP Address of SAN SPs
  • Configured iSCSI Targets
  • Challenge Handshake Auth. Protocol
  • CHAP Authentication Process
  • iSCSI Target Correctly Added
  • Rescan iSCSI SAN for Volumes
  • New iSCSI LUNs
  • Storage Volumes
  • Datastore Properties
  • Storage Device By Host View
  • iSCSI Trade-offs
  • Troubleshooting iSCSI
  • ESXi 6.0 Adds NFS v4.1 Support
  • NFS 4.1 Multipathing (vCenter)
  • ESXi NFS v3, v4.1 Client Features
  • Parallel NFS v4.1 with ESXi 6.0
  • NFS v4.1 Best Practice
  • Upgrading NFS v3 to NFS v4.1
  • Shared Storage Lab
  • Review & Questions
VMware File System
  • VMFS - VMware's Cluster File System
  • VMware's Cluster File System
  • Project Plan
  • Shared Storage
  • VMware File System
  • VMFS 5 Features
  • VMFS Auto Discovery
  • Building a VMFS
  • Name and Device Selection
  • Partition Configuration
  • New VMFS
  • VMFS Datastore Settings
  • Running out of Datastore Space
  • VMFS Capacity Management
  • Option 1 - LUN Span - Before
  • LUN Span - After
  • Create/Grow a LUN Span
  • Increase Capacity - Select Device
  • Completed LUN Span
  • Spanned LUNs - FYI
  • Option 2 - Grow Volume, VMFS
  • Expand Partition, VMFS File System
  • Grow VMFS Into Free Space
  • Updated VMFS Capacity
  • Fibre SAN Path Failure
  • iSCSI SAN Multipathing
  • Storage Multipathing
  • Path Selection Policy
  • Review Path Selection Policy
  • Manage Paths Selection Policy
  • Pluggable Storage Architecture
  • SAN Storage Considerations
  • SAN Storage Considerations
  • Storage Best Practice
  • Best Practices - Multipathing
  • Working With VMFS Lab
  • Review & Questions
Resource Pools
  • Resource Management and Resource Pools
  • Resource Delegations
  • VM vCPU Resource Tuneables
  • pCPU to vCPU Service
  • VM vCPU Limits
  • VM vCPU Reservations
  • VM vCPU Shares
  • Dynamic Memory Management