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Understanding Multipathing and Failover 202
Failovers with Fibre Channel 202
Host-Based Failover with iSCSI 203
Array-Based Failover with iSCSI 205
Path Failover and Virtual Machines 206
Pluggable Storage Architecture and Path Management 207
Viewing and Managing Paths 217
Using Claim Rules 220
Scheduling Queues for Virtual Machine I/Os 230
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Raw Device Mapping 232
About Raw Device Mapping 232
Raw Device Mapping Characteristics 236
Create Virtual Machines with RDMs 238
Manage Paths for a Mapped LUN 239
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Storage Policy Based Management 240
Virtual Machine Storage Policies 241
Workflow for Virtual Machine Storage Policies 241
Populating the VM Storage Policies Interface 242
About Rules and Rule Sets 246
Creating and Managing VM Storage Policies 248
About Storage Policy Components 257
Storage Policies and Virtual Machines 260
Default Storage Policies 266
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Using Storage Providers 268
About Storage Providers 268
Storage Providers and Data Representation 269
Storage Provider Requirements and Considerations 270
Register Storage Providers 270
View Storage Provider Information 271
Manage Storage Providers 272
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Working with Virtual Volumes 273
About Virtual Volumes 273
Virtual Volumes Concepts 274
Virtual Volumes and Storage Protocols 280
Virtual Volumes Architecture 281
Virtual Volumes and VMware Certificate Authority 282
Snapshots and Virtual Volumes 283
Before You Enable Virtual Volumes 284
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