This course covers storage considerations when planning a VMware Infrastructure deployment on a small, medium, or enterprise level. Storage is an integral part of the deployment that unlocks features such as VMotion, High Availability, and Distributed Resource Scheduler.
Objectives:
Describe the different storage architectures to consider for deployment
Work with Local, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and Network Attached Storage technologies
Configure multipathing
Extend a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
Work with Thin Provisioning
Topics:
vStorage Operations
Technical Requirements:
Minimum 500MHz Processor; 128 MB RAM; Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 or Mac OS X v10.4+; Internet Explorer 7.0+ or Firefox 3.0+ or Chrome 3.0+ or Safari 4.0+. 56K minimum connection; Adobe Flash Player 9.0+ or Windows Media Player 9.0+ for IE users who do not have Adobe Flash Player; JavaScript, popup windows and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.