February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
14h 22m
English
book
VMware ESX and ESXi in the Enterprise: Planning Deployment of Virtualization Servers, 2nd Edition
by Edward Haletky
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Chapter 5. Storage with ESX
The need for fast, dependable, highly available, and easily managed storage is certainly a design component vital to ensuring a virtual infrastructure implementation is successful in all aspects. Successful in this situation means the implementation meets the organization’s expectations moving into this new virtualization world of computing. Up to this point, we have discussed planning your server hardware and implementing the best server configuration requirements. Now let’s consider doing the same decisive planning for our virtual datastores.
When implementing and planning new or using existing storage in an ESX or ESXi host, it is essential to have a thorough understanding of the VM requirements in the present, ...