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Lesson#4

Introduction to vSphere Storage


• Introduction to Storage Technologies supported
• Introduction to Software Policy based management
• Storage Integrations and outcomes
Lesson outcome
• After completing this lesson, learner would be able to describe
• vSphere various supported storage technologies
• Datastores and its types
• VMFS Datastore management
• NFS Datastore Management

KS: Learn, Connect, Deliver


vSphere Datastore basics (1)
• Datastore is a container that hosts multiple objects in it
• Types of Datastore are many
• VMFS
• NFS
• vSAN
• vVOL

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vSphere Datastore basics (2)
• Datastore act as a facilitation layer in between non-compatible
systems
• Types of storage Datastore support are
• Block based (iSCSI / FC / FcOE)
• File based (NFS / NAS)
• Object based (vSAN / vVOL)
• Maximum Capacity it offers 64TB (usable)

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vSphere Datastore basics (3)
• VMFS datastore version 6 is the default version for vsphere
• Support auto reclaim of stroge (Trim)
• Support large file sizes in TB(s)
• VMFS datastore can be local or Shared
• Shared storage based VMFS datastore can be either iSCSI based or FC
based
• VMFS datastore can increase its size by adding more LUNs / extents
but cannot be shrink back.

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vSphere Datastore basics (4)
• NFS datastore is of two types
• Version 3.0 (Linux File servers) support all features of VMware product line
• Version 4.1 (Kerberos Auth) support all features of VMW products except
some.
• NFS datastore is always a shared storage (file-based architecture)
• Support ethernet network with FTP/jumbo frames for faster
performance

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Datastore structure
• VMFS and NFS datastores hold various kind of Virtual machine files
• The most common structure is based on one folder named under the
name of VM
• All necessary files needed to build the vm are inside this folder. These
files are like .vmdk, .vmx, .log, .vmsd, .vmem, .nvram, .vswp etc
• You can browser datastore through vsphere client
• You can download data from or upload data to datastore using
vsphere client.

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Type of Virtual Machine storage/disk
• Virtual machine disks are known with extension “.vmdk”
• This is of two types
• Thick Disk
• Eager Zero
• Lazy Zero
• Thin Disk
• There are other config types of the disks you can choose
• Dependent disks
• Independent disks
• Consistent Disks

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Storage Policy based Management – SPBM
• VMFS based storage policy
• Tag based
• Capability based
• Custom polices
• How to configure
• Aligning Shares, Reservations and Maximums (IOPs)
• Storage Input/Output Control (SIOC)
• Usage and implications

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Configurations and Requirements
• VMFS or NFS datastore require participating hosts to be on common
hardware and software configuration.
• VMFS datastore can be configured on software iSCSI for production
grade performance datastore
• You can configure NFS on same ESXi host cluster either with NFS v3.0
or v4.1 but cannot produce one NFS datastore with mix /
combination.

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Knowledge Check
• What is Datastore?
• What is the difference in between VMFS and NFS Datastore?
• What is the difference in between NFS v3.0 and v4.1?
• What is the maximum capacity of VMFS datastore?
• What is the difference in between VMFS v5 and v6?

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APP APP
LAB and Practical Demo OS OS

• How to configure software iSCSI


to build VMFS datastore VMFS/NFS
Datastore
• How to configure NFS based
datastore – v.4.1 Hyper-visor (ESXi) Hyper-visor (ESXi)

iSCSI/NFS
Protocol

LUNs

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