Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Hardware Selection for Your VSAN Cluster; Introduction; Using the VMware Compatibility Guides; Selecting a server platform; Selecting a storage controller; Selecting a solid-state drive (SSD) for the cache tier; Selecting capacity tier disks; Deciding on a network standard; Choosing a VSAN Ready Node (an alternative option); Chapter 2: Initial Configuration and Validation of Your VSAN Cluster; Introduction; Preparing the vCenter cluster for VSAN.
Applying VSAN licensing (optional)Configuring VSAN networking on a new standard switch; Configuring VSAN networking on an existing switch; Enabling SSH on the ESXi hosts (if applicable); Tagging disks as local solid-state drives (if applicable); Enabling VSAN on your cluster; Manually claiming disks for use by VSAN (if applicable); Performing initial validation of the new VSAN cluster; Enabling vSphere HA; Chapter 3: Storage Policy-based Management; Introduction; Creating VM storage policies; Applying storage policies to a new VM or a VM deployed from a template.
Applying storage policies to an existing VM migrating to VSANViewing a VM's storage policies and object distribution; Changing storage policies on a VM already residing in VSAN; Modifying existing storage policies; Summary; Chapter 4: Monitoring VSAN; Introduction; Examining VSAN datastore health; Examining VSAN disk health; Examining VM object health; Creating VSAN-specific alarms; Examining VSAN resync activity (vSphere 6.0); Chapter 5: VSAN Maintenance Operations; Introduction; Understanding and using VSAN Maintenance Mode; Adding disks to VSAN; Removing disks/disk groups from VSAN.
Replacing disks in VSAN in the event of a disk failureChanging VSAN networking; Permanently decommissioning a VSAN node; Recovering a VSAN cluster in the event that vCenter is lost/migrating a VSAN cluster to a new vCenter server; Chapter 6: Ruby vSphere Console; Introduction; Launching RVC (Windows vCenter); Launching RVC (Linux vCenter Appliance); Navigating RVC; The vsan.cluster_info command; The vsan.disks_stats command; The vsan.vm_object_info command; The vsan.vm_perf_stats command; The vsan.resync_dashboard command; Chapter 7: Troubleshooting VSAN; Introduction.
Investigating network partitions (with vSphere Web Client)Investigating network partitions (without vSphere Web Client); Investigating storage provider registration problems; Investigating other SPBM problems; Investigating VM provisioning or power-on failures; Investigating disk failures; Investigating VSAN performance with VSAN Observer; Chapter 8: Support Success; Introduction; Formulating a problem description; Formulating a problem summary; Collecting logging information; Collecting other diagnostic information; Chapter 9: VSAN 6.0; Introduction; Tagging disks as SSDs in vSphere 6.0.
