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You're reading from Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286016

Length 598 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Networking

Authors (3):

Andrea Mauro

Paolo Valsecchi

Karel Novak

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite FREE CHAPTER

2. Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure

3. Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment

4. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

5. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5

6. Advanced Network Management

7. Advanced Storage Management

8. Advanced VM and Resource Management

9. Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting

10. Securing and Protecting Your Environment

11. Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

13. Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5

14. Data and Workloads Protection

The evolution of the storage world

Storage-related technologies have been changing really fast in recent years and flash memory is totally redefining the storage offering, both in the architectures, as described previously, and also on the effective components where data is stored.

Spinning disks

Just 10 years ago (but we could also say just a little over 5 years ago), the different tiers described previously were usually filled with the following types of storage:

Tier 0: 15K RPM Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) disks
Tier 1: 10K RPM SAS disks
Tier 2: 7K RPM SATA or nearline disks
Tier 3: Usually tapes

Traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDD) were the standard components for storage arrays, and more were used both for redundancy and for increasing performance. RAID hardware was the standard at the beginning, surpassed by a more software controlled style of data management.

The typical interface and bus for those hard disks is SAS, working at 6 or 12 Gbps. SATA disks use the Serial ATA (3.0 revision works at...