Overview
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Learn how to configure and administer vSphere storage, including iSCSI, VMFS, NFS, and software-driven solutions such as VSAN and Virtual Volumes.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Before watching this course
- VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) and NFS (Network File System)
- Array thin provisioning
- Fibre Channel basics
- Fibre Channel zoning
- Fibre Channel masking
- FCoE basics
- FCoE adapters
- iSCSI basics
- iSCSI initiator types
- iSCSI target discovery
- Configuring a software iSCSI initiator
- Configuring iSCSI port bindings
- Discovering LUNs
- Creating a VMFS data store
- Configuring iSCSI CHAP
- iSCSI boot LUNs
- Upgrading VMFS3 to VMFS5
- Create a new virtual machine
- Using raw device mappings
- Modifying VMFS data stores
- Data-store clusters
- Configuring storage policies
- Managing storage filters
- Storage multipathing basics
- SATPs (storage array type plugIns) and PSPs (path selection plugins)
- Configuring PSPs
- Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
- APD (all-paths-down) and PDL (permanent device loss) conditions
- VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) and VASA (vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness)
- VAAI primitives
- Sharing virtual disks across VMs
- NFS basics
- Creating an NFS data store
- Manage NFS data stores
- NFS 3 and NFS 4.1
- VVOL basics
- VVOL objects
- Storage providers and VVOLs
- Configuring VVOLs
- VSAN basics
- VSAN objects and network
- VSAN fault domains
- Configuring VSAN
- Configure storage policies for VSAN
- Using VSAN Observer
- SIOC basics
- Configuring SIOC
- Next steps
