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5 Dell EMC SC Series: Best Practices with VMware vSphere | 2060-M-BP-V
15.1 Synchronous replication ................................................................................................................................... 60
15.2 Asynchronous replication ................................................................................................................................. 60
15.3 Replication considerations with standard replications ...................................................................................... 61
15.4 Replication considerations with Live Volumes ................................................................................................. 61
15.5 Replication tips and tricks ................................................................................................................................. 62
15.6 Virtual machine recovery at a DR site .............................................................................................................. 63
16 VMware storage features ........................................................................................................................................... 64
16.1 Storage I/O Controls (SIOC) ............................................................................................................................. 64
16.2 Storage distributed resource scheduler (SDRS) .............................................................................................. 66
16.3 vStorage APIs for array integration (VAAI) ....................................................................................................... 67
16.4 vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) ................................................................................................ 69
16.5 Virtual Volumes (vVols) .................................................................................................................................... 70
A Determining the appropriate queue depth for an ESXi host ...................................................................................... 71
A.1 Fibre Channel ................................................................................................................................................... 71
A.2 iSCSI ................................................................................................................................................................. 72
A.3 Using esxtop to monitor queue depth ............................................................................................................... 72
B Deploying vSphere client plug-ins .............................................................................................................................. 74
B.1 Dell Storage vSphere Web Client plug-in ......................................................................................................... 74
C Configuring Dell Storage Manager VMware integrations ........................................................................................... 75
D Host and cluster settings ............................................................................................................................................ 76
D.1 Recommended settings .................................................................................................................................... 76
D.2 Optional settings ............................................................................................................................................... 77
E Additional resources ................................................................................................................................................... 78
E.1 Technical support and resources ..................................................................................................................... 78
E.2 VMware support ................................................................................................................................................ 78