Overview
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Learn about VMware vSphere storage from an experienced, certified trainer and prepare for the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- VMware storage lab environment
- Storage performance overview
- VMFS and NFS datastores on vSphere 7
- NFS version 3 and 4.1
- Demo: Create an NFS Datastore in vSphere 7
- Introduction to iSCSI storage
- Demo: Connect an ESXi host to an iSCSI storage array
- Demo: Create a VMFS6 datastore
- Demo: Expand a VMFS datastore
- Demo: Storage port bindings and multipathing policies
- Dependent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 7
- Independent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 7
- Introduction to Storage DRS (SDRS)
- Demo: Create a Storage DRS cluster (SDRS) in vSphere 7
- vSAN vs. traditional storage arrays
- vSAN basic architecture
- vSAN disk groups
- Demo: vSAN network configuration for vSphere 7
- Demo: Create a vSAN cluster
- Virtual volumes (VVOL)
- Demo: Storage I/O Control (SIOC) for vSphere 7
