Overview
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Learn the foundations of configuring virtual storage in vSphere 6.7, including working with storage commands (SCSI), NFS and VMFS, ESXi, Storage DRS and vSAN, and Virtual Volumes.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Managing storage with vSphere
- Storage performance overview
- VMFS and NFS datastores
- NFS3 and NFS4.1 datastores with ESXi 6.7
- Demo: Create an NFS datastore
- Introduction to iSCSI
- Connecting hosts and storage with software iSCSI
- Demo: Software iSCSI storage config
- Demo: Create a vSphere 6.7 VMFS datastore
- Demo: Expand a VMFS datastore
- Demo: Storage port bindings and multipathing policies
- Dependent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 6.7
- Independent hardware iSCSI and ESXi 6.7
- Introduction to Storage DRS (SDRS)
- Demo: Create a Storage DRS cluster
- vSAN 6.7 vs. traditional storage arrays
- Introduction to vSAN 6.7 architecture
- vSAN 6.7 disk groups
- Demo: vSAN 6.7 network configuration
- Demo: Create a vSAN6.7 cluster
- Virtual volumes (VVOL)
- Demo: Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
- VMFS metadata consistency
