VMware vSphere 6.5 Advanced Storage

Learn how to configure storage environments using vSphere 6.5. Explore storage architecture, VMFS, vSAN, DRS, and volumes. Prepare for the VMware Certified Professional exam.

Learn how to set up and administer storage environments using vSphere 6.5, the data center virtualization platform from VMware. This course covers advanced vSphere storage concepts, topics which are part of the VMware Certified Professional exam. Instructor Rick Crisci starts the course by explaining the basics of storage performance and shows how to work with datastores, iSCSI, and independent hardware. Then, he moves on to advanced storage administration, covering host storage, DRS settings, vSAN, and virtual volumes. He wraps up by demonstrating how to use multipathing plugin, SIOC, and VMFS.

1. vSphere Storage Basics

• Storage performance overview
• VMFS and NFS datastores
• NFS 3 and NFS v4.1 datastores
• Demo: Create an NFS datastore
• Introduction to iSCSI
• Software iSCSI
• Demo: Configure software iSCSI
• Demo: Create a VMFS datastore on iSCSI
• Dependent hardware iSCSI
• Independent hardware iSCSI

2. vSphere Storage Advanced Concepts

• Demo: ESXi host storage configuration
• Storage DRS
• Introduction to vSAN (Virtual SAN)
• vSAN network and object storage
• Demo: Working with vSAN
• Virtual Volumes (VVOL)
• Demo: Storage multipathing plugins
• Demo: Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
• VMFS metadata consistency