Month: July 2018

VCP65-DCV – Objective 3.3 – Configure vSphere Storage Multipathing and Failover

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in VMware

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

  1. VMware PSP
  2. Pluggable storage architecture PSA deep dive parts 1 and 2 (cormachogan.com)
  3. esxcli (command)
  4. Multipathing considerations
  5. Storage Array Type Plugin (SATP)
  6. Path Selection Policy (PSP)
  7. Permanent Device Loss (PDL)
  8. All Path Down (APD)
  9. Identifying Device connectivity problems
  10. Customizing Round-Robin Setup (CLI)
  11. Configuration settings for value devices (blogs.vmware.com)
  12. Managing Claim Rules (CLI)
  13. Path Scanning and Claim
  14. Adding Multipathing Claim Rules
  15. Setting Up a Path Selection Policy
  16. Default Policies provided by Vmware

VCP65-DCV – Objective 3.2 – Configure Software-Defined Storage

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in VMware

The following reference material from the VSAN 6.2 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

  1. Creating and deleting a VSAN Cluster
  2. Adding Disk Group
  3. Choosing the correct VSA maintenance mode option (blogs.vmware.com)
  4. Vmware KB 2064240 (kb.vmware.com)
  5. vSAN 6.6 online health check performance improvements (blogs.vmware.com)
  6. Monitoring Virtual SAN
  7. How to understand space requirements for FTT with RAID-1 and vSAN (xiaoxiaoke.wordpress.com)
  8. Working Virtual Volumes
  9. VSAN concepts
  10. Using the virtual SAN ISCSI target services
  11. vSAN and vvols (cormachogan.com)
  12. Using storage providers
  13. Managing Fault Domains in Virtual SAN
  14. Protocol endpoints
  15. Storage Policy Based Management

VCP65-DCV – Objective 3.1 – Manage vSphere Integration with Physical Storage

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in VMware

The following reference material from the vSphere 6.5 online documentation will assist you in cover the main information that is need to know the section:

  1. Working with Datastore
  2. NFS Protocol and ESXi
  3. Using Kerberos for NFS 4.1
  4. NFS Storage Guidelines and Requirements
  5. Working with VVolves
  6. Virtual Volumes and Storage Protocols
  7. Booting ESXi from FC
  8. Booting from Fiber Channel SAN Requirement
  9. Requirements and Considerations for software FCOE boot
  10. Managing Fault Domains in Virtual SAN Cluster (vSAN)