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You're reading from VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook If you prefer practice to theory then this is the ideal book for learning how to install and configure VMware vSphere components. Packed with recipes, it's a hands-on tutorial and reference guide for this unbeatable virtualization product.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849684026

Length 466 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Abhilash G B

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Upgrading to vSphere 5.1 FREE CHAPTER

2. Performing a Fresh Installation of vSphere 5.1

3. vSphere Auto Deploy

4. ESXi Image Builder

5. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

6. Managing iSCSI and NFS Storage

7. Profile-driven Storage and Storage I/O Control

8. Configuring the vSphere Network

9. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

10. Configuring vSphere HA

11. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

12. Upgrading and Patching using vSphere Update Manager

13. Using vSphere Management Assistant (vMA 5.1)

Index

Introduction

iSCSI and NAS are storage solutions that can leverage the existing TCP/IP network infrastructure. Before we start learning how to configure them, let's delve into some iSCSI fundamentals. They are listed as follows:

iSCSI initiator: An iSCSI initiator can be either a software iSCSI adapter or a hardware iSCSI adapter. The hardware iSCSI adapter can further be dependent or independent. The initiator or HBA resides on the ESXi server.
iSCSI target: An iSCSI target is a term used to refer to either a network interface on the array or the LUN itself. Some arrays, such as Dell EqualLogic and HP LeftHand Networks, present each LUN as a target to the iSCSI initiator.
iSCSI session: An iSCSI session is established between an iSCSI initiator and an iSCSI target. Each session can have one or more connections to the target. With software iSCSI configured, a session is established between each bound VMkernel interface (vmk) and an iSCSI target. For example, if there are two vmk interfaces...

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