The essential VCDX study plan for storage.
List of articles in my VCDX Deep-Dive series (more than 70 posts)
Here is the list (in no particular order, I typed them as they occurred to me):
- vSphere Storage Mechanisms
- Datastores, SIOC, SDRS, Adaptive Queuing, DSNRO
- Disk types
- RAID configurations
- Disk failure rebuild times
- IOPS, I/O Sizes, Latency, Throughput
- Storage Protocols – Pros/Cons
- How to implement FC/FCoE/iSCSI/NAS in vSphere
- Scale/Sizing
- Centralised shared storage versus Scale-out storage
- Multi-Pathing – VMware and 3rd Party
- FC Zoning
- Manufacturer Interop
- NPV/NPIV
- Queues/Buffers
- FCoE/CNA
- iSCSI/NAS
- Storage Replication – Synchronous/Asynchronous
- Stretched Clusters/Metro Clusters
- Storage Array Types – Active/Active, Active/Passive, ALUA
- Global Cache
- VMware VSAN
- Nutanix – NDFS
- SimpliVity – OmniStack
- VMware vFRC
- PernixData R/W Caching
- LUN Sizing – Adaptive/Predictive
- Auto-Tiering
- VAAI primitives for FC/NAS
- VMFS/NFS
- RDMs
- Who are the players in the storage space?
Resources you may want to consider:
- Cormac Hogan VSAN, vSphere Storage
- Duncan Epping VSAN, vSphere Storage
- Frank Denneman PernixData, vSphere Storage
- Steven Poitras – The Nutanix Bible
- Software Defined Storage for Dummies eBook by Nutanix
- Storage Protocol Comparison White Paper by VMware
- Using EMC Symmetrix Storage in VMware vSphere Environments
- Storage Implementation in vSphere 5.0 (Vol.1), by Mostafa Khalil
- EMC Networked Storage Concepts and Protocols
- Storage Field Day
Validate these scenarios:
- My customer has a requirement for a Monster VM with a single vDisk of 200TB. My design is using Fiber Channel storage to meet this requirement. Will it work?
- My customer has an Air-Gap requirement for PCI compliance. I want to use VMware VSAN for a 2 node cluster with Business Critical Apps. Will it work?
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