6.0.1

Table Of Contents
F
failover
I/O delay 186
transparent 36, 66
failover paths, status 191
FC HBA setup 40
FC SAN
accessing 37
hardware requirements 39
FCoE, best practices 46
FCoE adapters 45
Fibre Channel, concepts 35
Fibre Channel over Ethernet 45
Fibre Channel SAN
best practices 59
preventing problems 59
file systems, upgrading 146
file-based (VMFS) solution 32
files
copying 171
moving 171
FIP 46
firewall, NFS client 156
Fixed path policy 190, 193
flash device, monitoring 136
flash devices
best Practices 136
estimating lifetime 136
marking 135
using with vSphere 134
Flash Read Cache
migrating virtual machines 143
migration settings 143
flash virtual disks 134
G
GPT 18, 121
guidelines, NFS storage 153
H
HA support for virtual flash 142
hardware acceleration
about 259
benefits 259
block storage 260
deleting claim rules 265
enabling 261
NAS 265
NAS status 267
requirements 260
status 260
support details 262
hardware acceleration, considerations 267
hardware iSCSI, and failover 184
hardware iSCSI initiators
configuring 71
installing 72
setting up discovery addresses 97
viewing 72
hardware iSCSI adapters
dependent 65
independent 65
HBAs
queue depth 39
setup 40
static load balancing 40
header digests 67
high-tier storage 30
host registration, disabling 60
host cache, swapping to 139
host cache, configuring on a VMFS
datastore 139
host cache, configuring with virtual flash
resource 140
host configuration, advanced settings 60
host-based failover 183
hosts
advanced attributes 180
and FC SAN 35
I
I/O filters
about 243
and storage providers 245
and VFFS volume 246
and virtual flash resource 246
and VM migration 253
classes 243
components 244
considerations 252
deploying 251
description 243
Flash Read Cache 248
installing on a cluster 247
reviewing capabilities 248
storage providers 248
uninstalling 252
upgrading 252
virtual disk enablement 249
virtual machine storage policies 249
workflow 247
I/O delay 70, 186
iBFT 109
iBFT iSCSI boot
booting an ESXi host 112
changing boot sequence 111
Index
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