Chapter 3. Planning and Configuring vSphere Storage

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Configuring Shared Storage for vSphere

Creating and Configuring VMFS and NFS Datastores

Let’s pretend that you are happy with the host on which your virtual machines (VMs) reside and you do not plan on moving them at all. In other words, you live in a world where features such as vMotion, high availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and Distributed Power Management (DPM) have no value for you. In that case, the best place to keep all ...

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