{"product_id":"9780321799937","title":"Storage Implementation in vSphere 5.0","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE ONLY AUTHORITATIVE, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO VSPHERE STORAGE IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEffective 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMostafa 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStorage Implementation in vSphere® 5.0 \u003c\/i\u003efully 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOVERAGE INCLUDES \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e Understanding how FC, FCoE, and iSCSI interact with VMware vSphere 5 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Implementing specific VMware capabilities on storage hardware from each leading vendor \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Avoiding, recognizing, and fixing misconfigurations and other problems \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Using third-party MPIO plug-ins certified with vSphere 5 and PSA \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Maximizing availability through multipathing and failover \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Implementing fixed and round-robin multipathing on arrays with ALUA support \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Monitoring and optimizing virtual storage performance \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Managing vSphere-compatible file systems: VMFS and NFS \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Taking full advantage of VMDirectPath I\/O \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Implementing heterogeneous storage configurations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Presenting abstracted storage through virtual disks and Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Using VMFS 5 to simplify management and improve scalability in large-scale environments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sharing storage and migrating more easily across multiple VMware vSphere instances \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Optimizing storage performance with VAAI-compliant devices \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMostafa Khalil\u003c\/b\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 978-0-321-79993-7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN-10: 0-321-79993-3 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VMware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012481368304,"sku":"9780321799937","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780321799937_p0.jpg?v=1763765558","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780321799937","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}