Book description
All vSphere administrators will benefit big-time from this book because it gives you clear, practical instructions on troubleshooting a whole host of storage problems. From fundamental to advanced techniques, it’s all here.
- Identify key issues that affect vSphere storage visibility, performance, and capacity
- Comprehend the storage metrics and statistics that are collected in vSphere
- Get acquainted with the many vSphere features that can proactively protect your environment
In Detail
Virtualization has created a new role within IT departments everywhere; the vSphere administrator. vSphere administrators have long been managing more than just the hypervisor, they have quickly had to adapt to become a ‘jack of all trades’ in organizations. More and more tier 1 workloads are being virtualized, making the infrastructure underneath them all that more important. Due to this, along with the holistic nature of vSphere, administrators are forced to have the know-how on what to do when problems occur.
This practical, easy-to-understand guide will give the vSphere administrator the knowledge and skill set they need in order to identify, troubleshoot, and solve issues that relate to storage visibility, storage performance, and storage capacity in a vSphere environment.
This book will first give you the fundamental background knowledge of storage and virtualization. From there, you will explore the tools and techniques that you can use to troubleshoot common storage issues in today’s data centers.
You will learn the steps to take when storage seems slow, or there is limited availability of storage. The book will go over the most common storage transport such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NFS, and explain what to do when you can’t see your storage, where to look when your storage is experiencing performance issues, and how to react when you reach capacity. You will also learn about the tools that ESXi contains to help you with this, and how to identify key issues within the many vSphere logfiles.
Table of contents
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Troubleshooting vSphere Storage
- Table of Contents
- Troubleshooting vSphere Storage
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgment
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Understanding vSphere Storage Concepts and Methodologies
- 2. Commonly Used Tools for Troubleshooting Storage
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3. Troubleshooting Storage Visibility
- Common storage visibility issues across block transport types
- Troubleshooting Fibre Channel storage visibility
- Troubleshooting IP storage visibility
- Summary
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4. Troubleshooting Storage Contention
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Identifying storage contention and performance issues
- Disk adapter latency statistics
- Disk device latency statistics
- Virtual machine latency statistics
- Using vCenter alarms to monitor latency
- Planning – how to properly scale your storage
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Identifying storage contention and performance issues
- 5. Troubleshooting Storage Capacity and Overcommitment
- A. Troubleshooting Steps
- B. Statistics of esxtop
- C. iSCSI Error Codes
- Index
Product information
- Title: Troubleshooting vSphere Storage
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2013
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782172062
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