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Avirtualmachineusesavirtualdisktostoreitsoperatingsystem,programfiles,andotherdataassociated
withitsactivities.Avirtualdiskisalargephysicalfile,orasetoffiles,thatcanbecopied,moved,archived,
andbackedup.
Tostorevirtualdiskfilesandmanipulatethe
files,ahostrequiresdedicatedstoragespace.ESXistorageis
storagespaceonavarietyofphysicalstoragesystems,localornetworked,thatahostusestostorevirtual
machinedisks.
Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
“IntroductiontoStorage”onpage 37
“ExaminingLUNs”onpage 40
“DetachingDevicesandRemovingaLUN”onpage 43
“WorkingwithPermanentDeviceLoss”onpage 43
“ManagingPathsonpage 44
“ManagingPathPolicies”onpage 47
“ManagingNFS/NASDatastores”onpage 51
“MonitoringandManagingSANStorage”onpage 53
“MonitoringandManagingVirtualSANStorage”onpage 53
“MonitoringvSphereFlashReadCache”onpage 54
“MonitoringandManagingVirtualVolumesonpage 55
“MigratingVirtualMachineswithsvmotiononpage 56
“ConfiguringFCoEAdapters”onpage 57
“ScanningStorageAdapters”onpage 58
“RetrievingSMARTInformation”onpage 58
Chapter 5,“ManagingiSCSIStorage,”onpage 59discussesiSCSIstoragemanagement.Chapter 6,“Managing
ThirdPartyStorageArrays,”onpage 87explainshowtomanagethePluggableStorageArchitecture,
includingPathSelectionPlugin(PSP)andStorageArrayTypePlugin(SATP)configuration.
Forinformationonmaskingandunmaskingpathswith
ESXCLI,seethevSphereStoragedocumentation.
Introduction to Storage
FibreChannelSANarrays,iSCSISANarrays,andNASarraysarewidelyusedstoragetechnologiessupported
byVMwarevSpheretomeetdifferentdatacenterstorageneeds.Thestoragearraysareconnectedtoand
sharedbetweengroupsofserversthroughstorageareanetworks.Thisarrangementallowsaggregationofthe
storageresourcesand
providesmoreflexibilityinprovisioningthemtovirtualmachines.
Managing Storage
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