Getting started with VMware virtual SAN : build optimal, high-performance, and resilient software-defined storage on VSAN for your vSphere infrastructure / Cedric Rajendran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajendran, Cedric, author.

Series:

Professional expertise distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Virtual server.

VMware vSphere.

Virtual storage (Computer science).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Getting started with VMware virtual storage area networks

Build optimal, high-performance, and resilient software-defined storage on VSAN for your vSphere infrastructure

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Rajendran Cedric: Cedric Rajendran is a senior staff engineer in technical support with VMware. He has around 13 years of experience covering a wide spectrum of technologies. He holds a master's degree specializing in International Business. He has served in the fields of Network Ops, Technical Support, and Consulting. His core strengths are on the server and storage virtualization. He has authored a book on VMware Virtual SAN, holds advanced certifications with VMware, and is also a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Backing up your VSAN workloads

Notes:

Includes index.

"Professional expertise distilled"--Cover.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 18, 2015).

OCLC:

911656505