VMware vSphere 7 Professional: 02 Storage

Learn about VMware vSphere storage from an experienced, certified trainer and prepare for the VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV) exam.

Introduction

• VMware storage lab environment

1. vSphere Storage

• 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