System information

troubleshooting 66
U
use cases 17
V
vCenter Server, accessing 13
Virtual Machine File System 12
Virtual Machine Monitor 9
virtual machines
accessing SANs 22
assigning WWNs to 58
equalizing disk access 69
locations 26
prioritizing 21
virtual ports (VPORTs) 57
virtualization 10
visibility issues 54
VMFS
1 volume per LUN 29
creating new volume 12
locking 12
minimum size 12
number of extents 12
sharing across ESX/ESXi hosts 18
volume resignaturing 73
VMFS datastores
changing signatures 75
resignaturing copies 75
unmounting 74
VMFS volume resignaturing 73
VMkernel 9
VMM 9
VMotion 17, 28, 30
vmware, host type 34
VMware DRS 17, 28
VMware HA 17, 26
VMware NMP
I/O flow 25
See also Native Multipathing Plugin
VMware vSphere Client 9
volume resignaturing 73, 75
vSphere CLI, See vSphere Command-Line
Interface
vSphere Client 9, 13
vSphere Command-Line Interface 13
vSphere SDK 13
vSphere Web Access 9, 13
W
World Wide Names (WWNs)
assigning to virtual machines 58
World Wide Port Names (WWPNs) 37, 57
WWNs
assigning 59
changing 59
WWPN 16
X
XP (HP StorageWorks) 40
Z
zoning 15
Index
VMware, Inc. 91