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vSphere Storage ESXi 5.1 vCenter Se
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Contents About vSphere Storage 9 Up
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Configuring Discovery Addresses for
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22 Storage Thin Provisioning 225 St
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About vSphere Storage vSphere Stora
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Updated Information This vSphere St
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Introduction to Storage 1 This intr
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Networked Storage Networked storage
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Network-attached Storage (NAS) Stor
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Table 1-1. Storage Device Informati
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Table 1-2. Storage Adapter Informat
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Display Datastore Information in th
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Figure 1-6. Virtual machines access
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Overview of Using ESXi with a SAN 2
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ESXi Hosts and Multiple Storage Arr
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Not all applications need to be on
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n Overall impact on SAN environment
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Using ESXi with Fibre Channel SAN 3
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With ESXi hosts, use a single-initi
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Configuring Fibre Channel Storage 4
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2 Check that all SAN components mee
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3 Click VM Options. 4 Click the Fib
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Configuring Fibre Channel over 5 Et
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6 Select the network adapter (vmnic
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6 Click OK. The software FCoE adapt
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Modifying Fibre Channel Storage for
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n To use boot from SAN, make sure t
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3 Execute these commands for SPB to
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Booting ESXi from Fibre Channel SAN
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2 Configure the storage array. a Fr
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g Select 1. WWPN. (Boot this device
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Booting ESXi with Software FCoE 8 E
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Install and Boot ESXi from Software
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Best Practices for Fibre Channel 9
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Storage Array Performance Storage a
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Using ESXi with iSCSI SAN 10 You ca
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The 16-hexadecimal digits are text
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Discovery A discovery session is pa
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Configuring iSCSI Adapters and 11 S
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For active-passive storage arrays n
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Change Name and IP Address for Inde
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n Broadcom iSCSI adapters do not su
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The software iSCSI adapter configur
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Procedure 1 Browse to the host in t
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Figure 11-2. 1:1 adapter mapping on
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You created the virtual VMkernel ad
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- Page 153 and 154: Working with Datastores 17 Datastor
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- Page 179 and 180: Raw Device Mapping 18 Raw device ma
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Figure 20-2. Host-Based Path Failov
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Figure 20-4. Port Reassignment 10.0
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Figure 20-5. Pluggable Storage Arch
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6 The SATP interprets the I/O comma
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3 Click Devices under View. 4 Selec
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2 In the Paths panel, right-click t
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This example indicates the followin
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Procedure 1 To define a new claim r
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Mask Paths You can prevent the host
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Procedure 1 To add a claim rule for
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Storage Hardware Acceleration 21 Th
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On your host, the hardware accelera
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Procedure u Run the esxcli --server
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3 Load both claim rules by running
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Uninstall NAS Plug-Ins To uninstall
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Storage Thin Provisioning 22 With E
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You can use Storage vMotion or cros
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3 Click the Hardware tab and select
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Requirements To use the thin provis
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Procedure Chapter 22 Storage Thin P
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Using Storage Vendor Providers 23 W
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n Alarms indicate a change in stora
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3 In the Storage Providers list, vi
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Virtual Machine Storage Profiles 24
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View Existing Storage Capabilities
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Assign User-Defined Storage Capabil
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Remove a Storage Capability in the
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Create a Virtual Machine Storage Pr
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Procedure 1 Open the Profiles tab o
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Monitor Storage Compliance for Virt
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Using vmkfstools 25 vmkfstools is o
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File System Options File system opt
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When upgrading the datastore, use t
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Renaming a Virtual Disk This option
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Listing Attributes of an RDM This o
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Index Symbols * next to path 201 A
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G GPT 18 H hardware acceleration ab
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limitations 42 requirements 41 O on
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EMC CLARiiON 52, 114 EMC Symmetrix