vSphere 6.5 Foundations: Configure vSphere Storage
Storage is a critical foundation for the virtual infrastructure. This course teaches you what your vSphere storage options are, how they're different, and how to connect NFS and iSCSI to your vSphere hosts in this eight course series.
What you'll learn
With storage being a critical foundation for any virtual infrastructure, it's critical that you learn about vSphere storage. In this course, vSphere 6.5 Foundations: Configure vSphere Storage, you'll explore all you vSphere storage options, how they're different, and how to connect them to vSphere. First, you'll learn about iSCSI shared storage. Next, you'll discover how to identify adapters and devices, and how to create NFS shares. Finally, you'll delve into connecting to an iSCSI share, the vSphere iSCSI initiator configuration, and iSCSI use cases. By the end of this course, you'll have a better understanding of vSphere and how it relates to the critical storage infrastructure.
Table of contents
- What This Module Covers 2m
- vSphere Storage Overview 6m
- Explain Storage Naming Conventions 9m
- Explain iSCSI Initiator Requirements 4m
- Configure FC/iSCSI/FCoE Storage Devices 5m
- Describe Zoning and LUN Masking Practices 3m
- Create an NFS Share for Use with vSphere 4m
- Configure Hardware Initiator 3m
- Determine Use Case for iSCSI Initiators 1m
- Connect/configure NFS 3.x and 4.1 NAS Devices 3m
- Enabling and Configuring the Software iSCSI Initiator 5m
- Configure iSCSI Port Binding 5m
- Enable/configure/disable iSCSI CHAP 2m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- What This Module Covers 1m
- Explain Virtual SAN (VSAN) Architecture 2m
- Identify Virtual SAN Network Requirements 2m
- Create/delete VSAN Cluster 7m
- Manage VSAN Disk Groups 4m
- Monitor VSAN Storage 3m
- Add/remove VSAN Nodes 4m
- What’s New in vSAN 6.5? 9m
- Identify Benefits of NFS 4.1 2m
- Configure Virtual Volumes (VVOLS) 10m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- What This Module Covers 1m
- Compare/Contrast Supported NFS Versions 4m
- Identify NFS Requirements 2m
- Configure NFS Storage for VMDK Formatting 6m
- Configure Storage Multi-pathing 10m
- Compare/contrast VMFS3 and VMFS5 3m
- Determine VMFS Requirements 2m
- Configure Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (SDRS) 8m
- Extend/expand VMFS Datastores 6m
- Place a VMFS Datastore in Maintenance Mode 1m
- What This Module Covered 1m
About the author
David has authored over 100 courses for Pluralsight.com around enterprise data center technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization, and (especially) VMware vSphere. He is a partner at ActualTechMedia.com where he creates compelling enterprise technology content, moderates online events, and helps to connect some of the best-known technology companies in the industry with the end user community. With over 20 years in enterprise technology, he has served as an IT Manager, administrator, an... more