VMware vSphere: Advanced Storage Configuration and Administration

Learn how to configure and administer vSphere storage, including iSCSI, VMFS, NFS, and software-driven solutions such as VSAN and Virtual Volumes.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Before watching this course

1. Storage Virtualization

• VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) and NFS (Network File System)
• Array thin provisioning

2. Fibre Channel and FCoE

• Fibre Channel basics
• Fibre Channel zoning
• Fibre Channel masking
• FCoE basics
• FCoE adapters

3. iSCSI

• 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

4. Working with Block Storage

• Upgrading VMFS3 to VMFS5
• Create a new virtual machine
• Using raw device mappings
• Modifying VMFS data stores
• Data-store clusters
• Configuring storage policies

5. Advanced Storage Concepts

• 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

6. NFS

• NFS basics
• Creating an NFS data store
• Manage NFS data stores
• NFS 3 and NFS 4.1

7. Virtual Volumes (VVOL)

• VVOL basics
• VVOL objects
• Storage providers and VVOLs
• Configuring VVOLs

8. Virtual SAN (VSAN)

• VSAN basics
• VSAN objects and network
• VSAN fault domains
• Configuring VSAN
• Configure storage policies for VSAN
• Using VSAN Observer

9. Storage I/O Control (SIOC)

• SIOC basics
• Configuring SIOC

Conclusion

• Next steps