vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 02: Managing Storage

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.

Introduction

• Managing storage with vSphere

1. vSphere Storage Basics

• 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

2. vSphere Storage Advanced Concepts

• 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