Understand and implement VMware Virtual SAN: the heart of tomorrow’s Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) VMware’s breakthrough Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) initiative can help you virtualize your entire datacenter: compute, storage, networks, and associated services. Central to SDDC is VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN): a fully distributed storage architecture seamlessly integrated into the hypervisor and capable of scaling to meet any enterprise storage requirement. Now, the leaders of VMware’s wildly popular Virtual SAN previews have written the first authoritative guide to this pivotal technology. You’ll learn what Virtual SAN is, exactly what it offers, how to implement it, and how to maximize its value. Writing for administrators, consultants, and architects, Cormac Hogan and Duncan Epping show how Virtual SAN implements both object-based storage and a policy platform that simplifies VM storage placement. You’ll learn how Virtual SAN and vSphere work together to dramatically improve resiliency, scale-out storage functionality, and control over QoS. Both an up-to-the-minute reference and hands-on tutorial, Essential Virtual SAN uses realistic examples to demonstrate Virtual SAN’s most powerful capabilities. You’ll learn how to plan, architect, and deploy Virtual SAN successfully, avoid gotchas, and troubleshoot problems once you’re up and running. Coverage includes <ul>
<li> Understanding the key goals and concepts of Software-Defined Storage and Virtual SAN technology 
</li> <li> Meeting physical and virtual requirements for safe Virtual SAN implementation 
</li> <li> Installing and configuring Virtual SAN for your unique environment 
</li> <li> Using Storage Policy Based Management to control availability, performance, and reliability 
</li> <li> Simplifying deployment with VM Storage Policies 
</li> <li> Discovering key Virtual SAN architectural details: caching I/O, VASA, witnesses, pass-through RAID, and more 
</li> <li> Ensuring efficient day-to-day Virtual SAN management and maintenance 
</li> <li> Interoperating with other VMware features and products 
</li> <li> Designing and sizing Virtual SAN clusters 
</li> <li> Troubleshooting, monitoring, and performance optimization 
</li> </ul>

Essential Virtual SAN: Administrator's Guide to VMWare Virtual SAN

Computers & Technology

Epping, Duncan

Hogan, Cormac

Certification

Vmware Pr Technology

Plan, implement, and manage VMware’s radically simple, enterprise-class software-defined storage platform VMware’s Virtual SAN has rapidly proven itself in environments ranging from hospitals to oil rigs to e-commerce platforms. Along the way, it has matured to offer unsurpassed features for data integrity, availability, and space efficiency. Virtual SAN 6.x makes all-flash storage practical for even more use cases, while radically simplifying IT operations and supporting the transition to hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI). Now, the authors of Essential Virtual SAN (VSAN) have thoroughly updated their definitive guide to this transformative technology. Writing for vSphere administrators, architects, and consultants, Cormac Hogan and Duncan Epping explain what Virtual SAN is, how it has evolved, what it now offers, and how to gain maximum value from it. Hogan and Epping draw on unsurpassed experience shaping Virtual SAN and helping VMware customers deploy it. They offer expert insight into preparation, installation, configuration, policies, provisioning, clusters, and more. You’ll also find practical guidance for using its new Health and Performance Services to gain end-to-end visibility into infrastructure and resource consumption. Both an up-to-the-minute reference and hands-on tutorial, Essential Virtual SAN, Second Edition uses realistic examples to demonstrate the immense power of Virtual SAN 6.x. You’ll learn all you need to successfully plan and deploy the newest versions, and operate them smoothly and efficiently. COVERAGE INCLUDES: <ul>
<li> Understanding the goals and concepts of Software-Defined Storage and Virtual SAN </li> <li> Meeting updated requirements for safe Virtual SAN 6.x implementation </li> <li> Architecting, installing, and configuring Virtual SAN for your unique environment </li> <li> Simplifying deployment with VM storage policies and provisioning </li> <li> Controlling availability, performance, and reliability </li> <li> Efficiently managing and maintaining Virtual SAN </li> <li> Providing resiliency and scale-out storage functionality </li> <li> Designing and sizing clusters (with examples) </li> <li> Using stretched clusters to address rigorous downtime requirements </li> <li> Applying valuable new features such as deduplication, compression, checksums, and encryption </li> <li> Using Health and Performance Services to troubleshoot hardware, configurations, and performance </li> </ul>

Essential Virtual San Vsan: Administrator's Guide to Vmware Virtual San (Vmware Press Technology)

VMware’s vSAN has rapidly proven itself in environments ranging from hospitals to oil rigs to e-commerce platforms and is one of the top three players in the hyperconverged space. Along the way, it has matured to offer unsurpassed features for data integrity, availability, and space efficiency. vSAN 6.7 U1 has radically simplified IT operations and supports the transition to hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI). The authors of the vSAN Deep Dive have thoroughly updated their definitive guide to this transformative technology. Writing for vSphere administrators, architects, and consultants, Cormac Hogan, and Duncan Epping explain what vSAN is, how it has evolved, what it now offers, and how to gain maximum value from it. The book offers expert insight into preparation, installation, configuration, policies, provisioning, clusters, architecture, and more. You’ll also find practical guidance for using all data services, stretched clusters, and two node configurations. This book is part of the Deep Dive series.Combine this book with the vSphere 6.5 Host Deep Dive, and the vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive, and you have an in-depth and comprehensive set of books that deliver the information you need to design and administer both vSphere and vSAN in the enterprise.Often referred to in the virtual community as the vSphere Resource kit, the Host Resource Deep Dive zooms in on hardware resources such as CPU and Memory and covers how the vSphere resource scheduler manages these. The vSAN Deep Dive discusses how to leverage local storage devices to create a shared storage platform and the Clustering Deep Dive builds on top of that and zooms in how a group of ESXi hosts work together and provide compute clustering services. Buy all three and become your organizations' private cloud superhero!

VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive

Networking & Cloud Computing

Independently published

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