VMware Virtual SAN Cookbook - Softcover

Jeffrey Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782174540 ISBN 13: 9781782174547

Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, 2015

Synopsis

The perfect guide to successful VMware Virtual SAN implementation and operations, with recipes to guide you through the process

About This Book

• Design a Virtual SAN infrastructure from selecting hardware to full capacity.
• Deploy and manage a software-defined storage solution with VMware Virtual SAN
• Prepare for architectural and scale changes as your enterprise grows and develops

Who This Book Is For

If you are an administrator of a VMware vSphere infrastructure and want to simplify storage delivery by integrating storage into vSphere, this book is for you. No extensive storage background is needed as VMware Virtual SAN integrates into the existing vSphere solutions with which you are already familiar.

What You Will Learn

• Prepare your infrastructure for VMware Virtual SAN
• Plan and build infrastructure solutions to suit your needs
• Implement VMware Virtual SAN
• Exploit the power of policy-based management
• Increase or decrease the scale of your Virtual SAN as needs change
• Monitor your Virtual SAN infrastructure effectively
• Respond to and troubleshoot problems

In Detail

VMware Virtual SAN is a radically simple, hypervisor-converged storage, designed and optimized for vSphere virtual infrastructure. VMware introduced the software to help customers store more and more virtual machines.

As data centers continue to evolve and grow, managing infrastructure becomes more challenging. Traditional storage solutions like monolithic storage arrays and complex management are often ill-suited to the needs of the modern data center. Software-defined storage solutions, like VMware Virtual SAN, integrate the storage side of the infrastructure with the server side, and can simplify management and improve flexibility.

This book is a detailed guide which provides you with the knowledge you need to successfully implement and manage VMware VSAN and deployed infrastructures.

You will start with an introduction to VSAN and object storage, before moving on to hardware selection, critical to a successful VSAN deployment. Next, you will discover how to prepare your existing infrastructure to support your VSAN deployment and explore Storage policy-Based Management, including policy changes, maintenance, validation, and troubleshooting VSAN. Finally, the book provides recipes to expedite the resolution process and gather all the information required to pursue a rapid resolution.

Style and approach

A practical guide to implementing VMware Virtual SAN filled with recipes, tips, and detailed explanations.

About this title

About the Author

Jeffrey Taylor

Jeffrey Taylor is an IT professional with deep knowledge of VMware vSphere and storage infrastructures. He has been working with VMware's global support services for nearly 5 years and is currently a staff engineer with a focus on Virtual SAN and storage infrastructure. Before his current role, he worked on a variety of software platforms for a global financial processor, with an emphasis on Unix/Linux midrange systems and mission-critical distributed applications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1782174540
• ISBN 13: 9781782174547
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 151