Vmware Vsphere 6.0 Part 3 - Storage, Resources, Vm Migration

Learn Shared Storage, how to make/expand VMFS volumes, to use Resource Pools and to cold, VMotion & Storage VMotion VMs

What you'll learn
Describe the shared storage options supported by vSphere
Describe the feature sets found in entry level and mid-tier SAN appliances
Create Fibre and iSCSI storage network designs for high performance and high service availability
Configure and ESXi host to connect to iSCSI storage
Explain the features and benefits of VMFS file systems
Format, update and expand VMFS datastores
Connect to and use NFS 4.1 file shares
Understand and delegate resources using Resource Pools
Understand and use vCPU and vRAM Reservation, Shares and Limits
Use resource parameters on Virtual Machines and Resource Pools
Perform cold, VM migrations to new ESXi hosts and/or VMFS datastores
Perform an ESXi host physical CPU compatibility test for safe VMotion
Perform hot VMotion Virtual Machine migrations between ESXi hosts
Perform hot Storage VMotion Virtual Machine migrations between datastores
Understand VM, ESXi host and storage requirements for VMotion
Requirements
For this course to be of benefit, you must know how to install and configure ESXi 6, how to install vCenter Server and how to create Virtual Machines
One way to acquire these skills is to take our VMware vSpher 6.0 Part 1 AND Part 2 class on Udemy
Description
VMware vSphere 6.0 is the platform businesses depend on to deploy,
manage and run their virtualized Windows and Linux workloads.
In this course
you will learn how to connect to and use shared SAN Storage including Fibre and iSCSI storage, to Format and Expand VMFS volumes, how to Resource Tune Virtual Machines, how to create and tune Resource Pools, and how to perform cold, VMotion and Storage VMotion migrations.
Learn Storage, VMFS, Resource Management and VM Migrations
This course covers four major topics that all vSphere 6 vCenter administrators must know:
First, we look at shared Fibre and iSCSI shared storage. We start with an overview of features and capabilities of suitable SANs. We move on to discuss storage network design for redundancy and performance, SAN security with Zoning and Authentication, iSCSI hardware and Software initiators, how to scan and review SAN LUNs and various Storage views. We complete the section with a presentation of NFS v4.1 file shares (new to vSphere 6.).Next we look at VMware's cluster file system - VMFS. We learn how to create VMFS partitions and their properties. We look at basic capacity management (and what can go wrong) and offer two strategies for managing VMFS capacity. We go on to talk about Path Selection Policies (PSPs) and explain the trade offs of VMware's three provided PSPs. We show you how to select the optimal PSP based on your storage network design and your SAN's capabilities.We move on to discuss Resource Management and Resource Pools. Effectively managing CPU and Memory is critical to host and VM scalability. VMware provides three tunables - Reservations, Shares and Limits, to help you delegate resources as you require. We show you how to assess resource needs and how to create/use Resource Pools. Finally, we explain Expandable Reservations and show you how to use them safely.Finally, we look at VM migrations. VMware supports cold (powered off) migrations to a new ESXi host or datastore. Next we look at VMotion hot VM migration - where we hot move a running VM to a second ESXi host. We look at CPU compatibility requirements and show you how to tell if your physical host CPUs are VMotion compatible. Finally, you will learn how to perform Storage VMotion (hot move a VM from one datastore to another) and the Use Cases for Storage VMotion.
The skills you will acquire in this course will help make you a more effective vSphere 6 administrator.Added Bonus! This course is 100% downloadable. Take it with you and learn on your schedule.


Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 VMware vSphere 6

Lecture 3 Course Goals and Objectives

Lecture 4 Course Goals and Objectives (continued)

Lecture 5 New Skills

Lecture 6 Presented by Larry Karnis

Lecture 7 Should You Take This Course?

Lecture 8 Let's Get Started!

Section 2: Shared Storage

Lecture 9 Fibre, iSCSI SAN and NFS v4.1 NAS Shared Storage

Lecture 10 Shared Storage

Lecture 11 Project Plan

Lecture 12 Problems & Opportunities

Lecture 13 Entry Level SAN Features

Lecture 14 High End SAN Features

Lecture 15 Fibre Storage Area Networks

Lecture 16 Fibre Switched Fabric Topology

Lecture 17 World Wide Names

Lecture 18 Fibre SAN Zoning Options

Lecture 19 Runtime Hardware Paths

Lecture 20 Hardware Paths

Lecture 21 iSCSI

Lecture 22 iSCSI Capabilities

Lecture 23 iSCSI Motivation

Lecture 24 iSCSI Block Diagram

Lecture 25 iSCSI Redundancy Options

Lecture 26 iSCSI Qualified Names

Lecture 27 LUN Discovery Options

Lecture 28 iSCSI Hardware Initiators

Lecture 29 iSCSI Software Initiators

Lecture 30 Add the iSCSI SW Adapter

Lecture 31 Change iSCSI SW Adapter IQN

Lecture 32 Enter IP Address of SAN SPs

Lecture 33 Configured iSCSI Targets

Lecture 34 Challenge Handshake Auth. Protocol

Lecture 35 CHAP Authentication Process

Lecture 36 iSCSI Target Correctly Added

Lecture 37 Rescan iSCSI SAN for Volumes

Lecture 38 New iSCSI LUNs

Lecture 39 Storage Volumes

Lecture 40 Datastore Properties

Lecture 41 Storage Device By Host View

Lecture 42 iSCSI Trade-offs

Lecture 43 Troubleshooting iSCSI

Lecture 44 ESXi 6.0 Adds NFS v4.1 Support

Lecture 45 NFS 4.1 Multipathing (vCenter)

Lecture 46 ESXi NFS v3, v4.1 Client Features

Lecture 47 Parallel NFS v4.1 with ESXi 6.0

Lecture 48 NFS v4.1 Best Practice

Lecture 49 Upgrading NFS v3 to NFS v4.1

Lecture 50 Shared Storage Lab

Lecture 51 Review & Questions

Section 3: VMware File System

Lecture 52 VMFS - VMware's ClusterFile System

Lecture 53 VMware's Cluster File System

Lecture 54 Project Plan

Lecture 55 Shared Storage

Lecture 56 VMware File System

Lecture 57 VMFS 5 Features

Lecture 58 VMFS Auto Discovery

Lecture 59 Building a VMFS

Lecture 60 Name and Device Selection

Lecture 61 Partition Configuration

Lecture 62 New VMFS

Lecture 63 VMFS Datastore Settings

Lecture 64 Running out of Datastore Space

Lecture 65 VMFS Capacity Management

Lecture 66 Option 1 - LUN Span - Before

Lecture 67 LUN Span - After

Lecture 68 Create/Grow a LUN Span

Lecture 69 Increase Capacity - Select Device

Lecture 70 Completed LUN Span

Lecture 71 Spanned LUNs - FYI

Lecture 72 Option 2 - Grow Volume, VMFS

Lecture 73 Expand Partition, VMFS File System

Lecture 74 Grow VMFS Into Free Space

Lecture 75 Updated VMFS Capacity

Lecture 76 Fibre SAN Path Failure

Lecture 77 iSCSI SAN Multipathing

Lecture 78 Storage Multipathing

Lecture 79 Path Selection Policy

Lecture 80 Review Path Selection Policy

Lecture 81 Manage Paths Selection Policy

Lecture 82 Pluggable Storage Architecture

Lecture 83 SAN Storage Considerations

Lecture 84 SAN Storage Considerations

Lecture 85 Storage Best Practice

Lecture 86 Best Practices - Multipathing

Lecture 87 Working With VMFS Lab

Lecture 88 Review & Questions

Section 4: Resource Pools

Lecture 89 Resource Management and Resource Pools

Lecture 90 Resource Delegations

Lecture 91 VM vCPU Resource Tuneables

Lecture 92 pCPU to vCPU Service

Lecture 93 VM vCPU Limits

Lecture 94 VM vCPU Reservations

Lecture 95 VM vCPU Shares

Lecture 96 Dynamic Memory Management

Lecture 97 VM Memory Tuneables

Lecture 98 VM Memory Resource Tuneables

Lecture 99 VM Memory Resource Tuneables

Lecture 100 Resource Shares

Lecture 101 Resource Pools

Lecture 102 CPU / RAM & Resource Pools

Lecture 103 Resource Pool Settings

Lecture 104 Expandable Reservations

Lecture 105 Resource Pools Use Case

Lecture 106 Auto-Update Resource Pools

Lecture 107 ESXi Host Resource Allocations

Lecture 108 Memory Resource Allocations

Lecture 109 Virtual Hardware Resources

Lecture 110 Resource Pool Summary Tab

Lecture 111 Resource Pools - Best Practices

Lecture 112 Resource Management Lab

Lecture 113 Review & Questions

Section 5: VM Migration

Lecture 114 Virtual Machine - Cold, Hot and Storage Migration

Lecture 115 Project Plan

Lecture 116 Virtual Machine Migration

Lecture 117 What's New in vSphere 6.0

Lecture 118 Cold Migration

Lecture 119 Cold Migration Use Cases

Lecture 120 VM Migration Lab – Part 1 & 2

Lecture 121 VMotion Migration

Lecture 122 VMotion Use Cases

Lecture 123 VMotion Requirements

Lecture 124 VMotion Memory Pre-Copy

Lecture 125 Progress is Monitored

Lecture 126 VM is Descheduled on Source

Lecture 127 VM Context is Transferred

Lecture 128 Switch Over

Lecture 129 VM Scheduled to Run

Lecture 130 Housekeeping

Lecture 131 VMotion Experience

Lecture 132 Failed Validation

Lecture 133 Validation Warnings

Lecture 134 Host Compatibility

Lecture 135 Host pCPU Compatibility

Lecture 136 AMD CPU Identification Utility

Lecture 137 Intel CPU Identification Utility

Lecture 138 Storage VMotion (SVM)

Lecture 139 Storage VMotion Use Cases

Lecture 140 VMotion + Storage VMotion

Lecture 141 Long Distance VM Hot Migration

Lecture 142 VM Migration Lab

Lecture 143 Review & Questions

Section 6: Bonus Lecture

Lecture 144 Introduction to the Bonus Lecture

Lecture 145 Course Review

Lecture 146 Buy the Course Book for this course for just $5

Lecture 147 Rent VMware vSphere 6 Ready-to-Use, Remote Hands-on Labs

Lecture 148 VMware Certified Professional 6 - Datacenter Virtualization Overview

Lecture 149 About Certified Virtualization Professional on vSphere 6

Lecture 150 Preparing for CVP 6 Certification

Lecture 151 Your Next vSphere 6 Course

Lecture 152 This Course Presented By…

This course is intended for vCenter administrators who want to improve their understanding of Virtual Hardware, want to consistently and rapidly deploy virtual machines, who need to effectively manage VM and ESXi host resources and who want to connect to shared storage.