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John Borhek VCP 3 4 5, VSP, and VTSP.
NetCom Learning Instructor
Welcome
About the Netcom vSphere Boot Camp
What is NAS?
What is NFS Storage?
Compatibility with vSphere
Advantages/Disadvantages
Demo – Connect to an NFS Datastore
Comprehensive, real-world training using VMware vSphere
Each participant deploys VMware vSphere using their own dedicated resources
Real, physical servers
Enterprise iSCSI SAN
Real-world and Best Practices emphasized throughout.
Install ESXi Connect to Enterprise SAN Configure NTP Join ESXi to AD Build Virtual Machines Add and extend Disk Drives Create and diagnose vSphere Snapshots Install and use the vCLI Install and use the vMA Install SQL and vCenter vSphere Networking vSphere Storage
Virtual Machine Deployment
Clustering ◦ DRS
◦ HA
◦ vMotion
vSphere Health and Continuity
Resource Management
vSphere API for Data Protection (Backup)
Much, much more……..
Directly-Attached Storage ◦ The disk drives on your ESXi Host
Network-Attached Storage (NAS) ◦ Supported protocol is NFS 3 or better over TCP
◦ File-level storage
Storage-Attached Network (SAN) ◦ Block-level storage
Easy and simple to deploy ◦ Practically no vSphere configuration required
Many inexpensive & Build-Your-Own options available
Highly scalable ◦ vSphere imposes no upper limit on NFS Storage!
Enterprise, high-performance NFS servers available form major vendors like Dell, HP, EMC
NFS Ethernet frame technically has less overhead than iSCSI
NFS often deployed on “desktop” NAS/SAN and performs poorly
Virtual Machines may be “thin” disks on NFS (depends on device support)
Any Linux OS
Any Windows Family 7 or more recent ◦ Windows 7, Windows 8, Server 2008, Server 2012
Many inexpensive NFS devices ◦ You get what you pay for!
Dedicated NFS Enterprise Storage
Choose NFS-capable Windows or Linux OS
Better hardware and server-grade NICs will improve performance
Faster disks will improve performance ◦ 5,400 RPM SATA >72 IOPS
◦ 7,200 RPM Nearline ≈100 IOPS
◦ 10,000 RPM SAS ≈150 IOPS
◦ 15,000 RPM SAS ≈230 IOPS
Many devices will “work” ◦ Check: www.vmware.com/go/hcl for support
You get what you pay for!
Our Server is running Linux ◦ 2 X Quad-core CPU
◦ 16 GB RAM
◦ 10,000 RPM SAS
Poor performance and high disk latency with some storage configurations (1031773) ◦ http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1031773
vSphere Storage ◦ http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-55-storage-guide.pdf
Best Practices for running VMware vSphere on Network Attached Storage ◦ http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware_NFS_BestPractices_WP_EN.pdf
VMware vSphere class with John Borhek: • 5 days, 50 hours • Live in-class or live online • Upcoming classes: June 2nd, July 28th
www.NetComLearning.com
What’s covered? • What's New in VMware vSphere 5.5 • Planning and Design for VMware vSphere 5.5 • Implementation with ESXi 5 and vCenter 5.1 • VMware vSphere 5.5 Management • Virtualize Business-Critical workloads with VMware vSphere 5.5 • Cloud Control - "Own your cloud and manage it too!" • Backup and Remediation VMware vSphere - 5.5 • VMware vSphere 5 Integrations, Tools and Third Party
