Year: 2012

By Mostafa Khalil
Published Aug 24, 2012 by VMware Press. Part of the VMware Pressseries.

Copyright 2013
Dimensions: 7″ x 9-1/8″
Pages: 700
Edition: 1st

Book
ISBN-10: 0-321-79993-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-79993-7

THE ONLY AUTHORITATIVE, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO VSPHERE STORAGE IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT

Effective VMware virtualization storage planning and management has become crucial–but it can be extremely complex. Now, the leading VMware expert on storage completely demystifies the “black box” of vSphere storage and provides illustrated, step-by-step procedures for performing every key task associated with it. You’ll gain the deep understanding you need to make better storage decisions, solve problems, and keep problems from occurring in the first place.

Mostafa Khalil presents techniques based on years of personal experience helping customers troubleshoot storage in their vSphere production environments. With more experience than anyone else in the field, he combines expert guidelines, insights for better architectural design, best practices for both planning and management, common configuration details, and deep dives into both vSphere and third-party storage.

Storage Implementation in vSphere® 5.0 fully explains each storage connectivity choice and protocol supported by VMware, introduces Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA), and shows how to build on PSA with multipathing, failover, and ALUA. It thoroughly introduces Storage Virtualization Devices (SVDs) and VMDirectPath I/O, and shows how to drive powerful improvements in performance, flexibility, and manageability with VMFS 5 and VAAI.

COVERAGE INCLUDES

• Understanding how FC, FCoE, and iSCSI interact with VMware vSphere 5
• Implementing specific VMware capabilities on storage hardware from each leading vendor
• Avoiding, recognizing, and fixing misconfigurations and other problems
• Using third-party MPIO plug-ins certified with vSphere 5 and PSA
• Maximizing availability through multipathing and failover
• Implementing fixed and round-robin multipathing on arrays with ALUA support
• Monitoring and optimizing virtual storage performance
• Managing vSphere-compatible file systems: VMFS and NFS
• Taking full advantage of VMDirectPath I/O
• Implementing heterogeneous storage configurations
• Presenting abstracted storage through virtual disks and Raw Device Mappings (RDMs)
• Using VMFS 5 to simplify management and improve scalability in large-scale environments
• Sharing storage and migrating more easily across multiple VMware vSphere instances
• Optimizing storage performance with VAAI-compliant devices

Mostafa Khalil, Senior Staff Engineer with VMware Global Support Services, specializes in storage integration for virtual environments. He has worked for VMware for 13 years and supported all VMware virtualization products since Workstation for Linux 1.0 beta. Khalil has worked on most enterprise storage vendors’ solutions and received engineering-level training for many of them. He has presented at every VMworld, and at VMware Partner Exchange, VMware User Group, and USENIX.

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1. Orin Thomas

   Orin Thomas is a consultant, writer, and Microsoft MVP whose books include the Microsoft Press Training Kits for Exams 70-646, 70-647, 70-662, and 70-680. He is also a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine.

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2. Peter Ward

   Peter Ward, MVP, is a highly regarded consultant, speaker, and trainer who provides solutions for some of the largest SQL Server sites in Australia. He is a Microsoft MVP for SQL Server.

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3. boB Taylor

   boB Taylor, MCM, is a SQL Server Principal Premier Field Engineer and database architect with Microsoft. He has 30+ years of programming experience and multiple certifications.

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About The Book

The smart way to learn Windows 8—one step at a time!

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to use Windows 8. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Set up a home network, browse the web, and use your email
• Use multi-touch gestures on your touchscreen devices
• Manage your files with Microsoft SkyDrive and Windows Live Sync
• Play music and movies, and share your photos and videos
• Download apps and games from the Windows Store
• Help secure your computer and prevent common problems

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Aidan Finn, Hans Vredevoort, Patrick Lownds, Damian Flynn

ISBN: 978-1-1182-5147-8

Paperback
408 pages
June 2012

Learn the foundation of cloud computing and how to build your own Microsoft private cloud

Written by a team of expert authors who are MVPs and leaders in their respective fields, this one-of-a-kind book is an essential resource for IT administrators who are responsible for implementing and managing a cloud infrastructure. You’ll quickly learn how cloud computing offers significant cost savings while also providing new levels of speed and agility.

Serving as a how-to guide, Microsoft Private Cloud Computing walks you through building a secure, internal cloud and delivering it as a service to your company using Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012.

• Walks you through the entire process: understanding cloud computing, understanding the Microsoft concept of a private cloud, deploying a private cloud fabric, deploying services, and building a private cloud, as well as integrating it with Microsoft’s public cloud to create a cross-premises or public cloud
• Discusses fabric management with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012
• Examines how to provide network and storage with VMM 2012
• Looks at the VMM library configuration
• Discusses private cloud and cloud service management with Microsoft App Controller

Microsoft Private Cloud Computing is a must-have comprehensive resource that covers all aspects of implementing a private cloud.

Aidan Finn is an MVP in Virtual Machine: System Administration and leader of the Windows User Group in Ireland.
Hans Vredevoort is a Cluster MVP and an infrastructure consultant.
Patrick Lownds is leader of the Microsoft Virtualization User Group in the UK.
Damian Flynn is the Infrastructure Architect for Lionbridge Technologies and acting manager of Core Infrastructure Group.

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