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vSphere High Performance Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   vSphere High Performance Cookbook - Second Edition Recipes to tune your vSphere for maximum performance

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786464620
Length 338 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Christopher Kusek Christopher Kusek
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Prasenjit Sarkar Prasenjit Sarkar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. CPU Performance Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Memory Performance Design 3. Networking Performance Design 4. DRS, SDRS, and Resource Control Design 5. vSphere Cluster Design 6. Storage Performance Design 7. Designing vCenter on Windows for Best Performance 8. Designing VCSA for Best Performance 9. Virtual Machine and Virtual Environment Performance Design 10. Performance Tools

Introduction to vSAN


VMware Virtual Storage Area Network (vSAN), was introduced in vSphere 5.5. vSAN is VMware's solution for customers that want software-defined, hyper-converged storage. By installing local drives in your ESXi hosts and purchasing vSAN licensing, you can create a highly available VMware solution that doesn't rely on an external storage array.

vSAN is a very interesting technology and would require a dedicated book to fully explore, so we will just cover the basics here. Hardware-wise, vSAN requires at least one flash disk for caching and at least one storage disk per ESXi host. In a hybrid vSAN, the storage disk will be a spinning disk. In an all flash vSAN, the storage disk will be a flash disk.

vSAN also requires an independent vSAN license, either Standard, Advanced, or Enterprise. If you want to run vSAN with deduplication, compression, and erasure coding, you must have an Advanced or Enterprise license.

Once you have configured vSAN, you will have a datastore presented...

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