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- Administering VMware Virtual SAN
- Contents
- About VMware Virtual SAN
- Updated Information
- Introduction to Virtual SAN
- Requirements for Enabling Virtual SAN
- Designing and Sizing a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Designing and Sizing Virtual SAN Storage Components
- Designing and Sizing vSAN Hosts
- Design Considerations for a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Designing the Virtual SAN Network
- Best Practices for Virtual SAN Networking
- Designing and Sizing Virtual SAN Fault Domains
- Using Boot Devices and vSAN
- Persistent Logging in a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Preparing a New or Existing Cluster for Virtual SAN
- Creating a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Characteristics of a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Before Creating a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Enabling Virtual SAN
- Set Up a VMkernel Network for Virtual SAN
- Create a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Configure a Cluster for Virtual SAN
- Edit Virtual SAN Settings
- Enable Virtual SAN on an Existing Cluster
- Disable Virtual SAN
- Configure License Settings for a Virtual SAN Cluster
- View Virtual SAN Datastore
- Using Virtual SAN and vSphere HA
- Deploying Virtual SAN with vCenter Server Appliance
- Using Virtual SAN Configuration Assist and Updates
- Extending a Datastore Across Two Sites with Stretched Clusters
- Introduction to Stretched Clusters
- Stretched Cluster Design Considerations
- Best Practices for Working with Stretched Clusters
- Network Design for Stretched Clusters
- Configure Virtual SAN Stretched Cluster
- Change the Preferred Fault Domain
- Change the Witness Host
- Deploying a Virtual SAN Witness Appliance
- Configure Network Interface for Witness Traffic
- Convert a Stretched Cluster to a Standard Virtual SAN Cluster
- Increasing Space Efficiency in a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Introduction to Virtual SAN Space Efficiency
- Using Deduplication and Compression
- Deduplication and Compression Design Considerations
- Enable Deduplication and Compression on a New Virtual SAN Cluster
- Enable Deduplication and Compression on Existing Virtual SAN Cluster
- Disable Deduplication and Compression
- Reducing VM Redundancy for Virtual SAN Cluster
- Adding or Removing Disks when Deduplication and Compression Is Enabled
- Using RAID 5 or RAID 6 Erasure Coding
- RAID 5 or RAID 6 Design Considerations
- Using Encryption on a Virtual SAN Cluster
- How Virtual SAN Encryption Works
- Design Considerations for Virtual SAN Encryption
- Set Up the KMS Cluster
- Enable Encryption on a New Virtual SAN Cluster
- Generate New Encryption Keys
- Enable Virtual SAN Encryption on Existing Virtual SAN Cluster
- Virtual SAN Encryption and Core Dumps
- Upgrading the Virtual SAN Cluster
- Device Management in a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Expanding and Managing a Virtual SAN Cluster
- Using Virtual SAN Policies
- Monitoring Virtual SAN
- Monitor the Virtual SAN Cluster
- Monitor Virtual SAN Capacity
- Monitor Virtual Devices in the Virtual SAN Cluster
- About Virtual SAN Cluster Resynchronization
- Monitor Devices that Participate in Virtual SAN Datastores
- Monitoring Virtual SAN Health
- Monitoring Virtual SAN Performance
- About Virtual SAN Cluster Rebalancing
- Using the Virtual SAN Default Alarms
- Using the VMkernel Observations for Creating Alarms
- Handling Failures and Troubleshooting Virtual SAN
- Using esxcli Commands with Virtual SAN
- Virtual SAN Configuration on an ESXi Host Might Fail
- Not Compliant Virtual Machine Objects Do Not Become Compliant Instantly
- Virtual SAN Cluster Configuration Issues
- Handling Failures in Virtual SAN
- Failure Handling in Virtual SAN
- Component Failure States
- Object States That Indicate Faults
- Accessibility of Virtual Machines
- Storage Device is Failing in a Virtual SAN Cluster
- A Capacity Device Is Not Accessible
- A Flash Caching Device Is Not Accessible
- A Host Is Not Responding
- Network Connectivity Is Lost
- A Storage Controller Fails
- Stretched Cluster Site Fails or Loses Network Connection
- Troubleshooting Virtual SAN
- Examine Hardware Compatibility
- Examining Performance in a Cluster
- Network Misconfiguration Error
- A Virtual Machine Appears as Non-Compliant, Inaccessible or Orphaned
- An Attempt to Create a Virtual Machine Fails
- Stretched Cluster Configuration Error When Adding a Host
- Stretched Cluster Configuration Error When Using RVC to Add a Host
- Cannot Add or Remove the Witness Host in a Stretched Cluster
- Disk Group Becomes Locked
- Replacing Existing Hardware Components
- Failure Handling in Virtual SAN
- Shutting Down the Virtual SAN Cluster
- Index