Chapter 7. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Viewing the LUNs presented to an ESXi host
- Viewing the datastores seen by the ESXi hosts
- Viewing and changing the multipathing of a LUN
- Creating a VMFS datastore
- Expanding/growing a VMFS datastore
- Extending a VMFS datastore
- Unmounting a VMFS datastore
- Mounting a VMFS datastore
- Deleting a VMFS datastore
- Upgrading from VMFS3 to VMFS5
- Mounting VMFS from a snapshot LUN
- Resignaturing VMFS on a snapshot LUN
- Masking paths to a LUN
- Unmasking paths to a LUN
- Creating a datastore cluster
- Enabling Storage DRS
Introduction
Storage is an integral part of any infrastructure. It is used to store the files backing your virtual machines. There are different types of storage that ...
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