IBM SAN and SVC Stretched Cluster and VMware Solution Implementation

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VMware environment

This chapter addresses the steps that are needed to create a VMware environment.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•VMware vMSC certification program

•VMware configuration checklist

•VMware vCenter setup

•ESX host installations

•VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

•Naming conventions

•VMware High Availability (HA)

•VMware vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)

•vCenter Heartbeat setup

•Overall design comments

•Scripting examples

5.1 VMware vMSC certification program

VMware Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) ...

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