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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook

You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook Practical recipes to deploy, configure, and manage VMware vSphere 6.7 components

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789953008

Length 570 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Abhilash G B

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER

2. Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere

3. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches

4. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches

5. Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment

6. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores

7. SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage

8. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC

9. Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment

10. Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles

11. Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder

12. Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts

13. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines

14. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager

15. Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates

16. Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Creating VMFS datastores

The storage devices (LUNs) presented to the ESXi host can be formatted with the Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) to create datastores that can be used to store virtual machines. The datastore can be created by either directly connecting to the ESXi host or from the vCenter.

In this recipe, we will learn about how to create VMFS datastores using the vCenter Server.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you to create a VMFS datastore:

Connect to vCenter Server using the HTML5 client.
In the Storage inventory view, right-click on the desired Datacenter and navigate to Storage | New Datastore...:

In the New Datastore wizard, select Type as VMFS and click Next to continue:

On the Name...

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Authors (1)

Abhilash G B

Abhilash G B

Abhilash G B is a virtualization specialist, author, and a VMware vExpert (2014-2019). His primary focus is in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the beginning of 2007. He holds several VMware certifications, including VCIX6-DCV, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP-DCV, VCP-Cloud, and VCP-NV. He is also the author of six other publications.

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