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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook Over 140 task-oriented recipes to install, configure, manage, and orchestrate various VMware vSphere 6.5 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781787127418

Length 574 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Abhilash G B

Meyenburg

Rajendran

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

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Contributors

Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 6.5 FREE CHAPTER

2. Greenfield Deployment of vSphere 6.5

3. Using vSphere Host Profiles

4. Using ESXi Image Builder

5. Using vSphere Auto Deploy

6. Using vSphere Standard Switches

7. Using vSphere Distributed Switches

8. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastore

9. Managing Access to the iSCSI and NFS Storage

10. Storage IO Control, Storage DRS, and Profile Driven Storage

11. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

12. Configuring vSphere 6.5 High Availability

13. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

14. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

15. Using vSphere Certificate Manager Utility

16. Using vSphere Management Assistant

17. Performance Monitoring in a vSphere Environment

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Creating a VMFS datastore

Once we have presented raw LUNs to an ESXi host, for it to be used as a storage container for virtual machine files, the LUN has to be formatted using VMFS. This is achieved by creating a VMFS datastore using the LUN.

Getting ready

You will need the NAA ID, LUN ID and the size of the desired LUN handy to ensure that you use the correct LUN to create the VMFS volume on. For the LUN discovery to work, the LUN should be presented correctly to the ESXi host at the storage array. If the ESXi host does not see the intended LUN, issue a rescan on the storage adapters to discover the presented LUN device.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you to create a VMFS volume:

Present or map a LUN of ESXi hosts. This activity is performed at the Storage array. Refer to the Storage Array vendor documentation for instructions:https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50%2FGUID-15A7E014-6189-4F65-A26F-8F409CA74338.html.