•  Introduction to VMware vSAN
  • Overview
  • Target Audience
  •  Use Cases
    • 3.1 Management Cluster
    • 3.2 Tiered Storage
    • 3.3 Hosted vSphere
    • 3.4 Hosted Private Cloud
    • 3.5 Public Cloud
  •  Introduction to vSAN
    •  4.1 vSAN Configurations
      • 4.1.1 Hybrid Configuration
      • 4.1.2 All-Flash Configuration
    •  4.2 vSAN Availability
      • 4.2.1 Fault Domains
      • 4.2.2 Failures to Tolerate Configuration
  • Deploying vSAN
  •  vSAN Solutions Design
    • 6.1 vSAN Cluster Design
    • 6.2 vSAN Networking Design
    • 6.3 vSAN Storage Design
    • 6.4 vSAN Storage Policy Design
  •  vSAN and Recoverability
    • 7.1 vSAN Stretched Cluster
    • 7.2 VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced
  •  Managing vSAN
    •  8.1 Management and Operations
      • 8.1.1 Health Check Plug-In
      • 8.1.2 VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack
  • Conclusion
  • Assumptions and Caveats
  • Reference Documents
•  Architecting VMware vSAN 6.2
  •  Overview
    • 1.1 Enabling the Software-Defined Service Provider
    • 1.2 VMware Software-Defined Storage Model
    • 1.3 Target Audience
  •  vSAN Introduction
    • 2.1 vSAN Key Requirements
    • 2.2 vSAN Key Terminology
    •  2.3 vSAN Internal Architecture
      • 2.3.1 The Cluster-Level Object Manager (CLOM)
      • 2.3.2 The Distributed Object Manager (DOM)
      • 2.3.3 Local Log-Structured Object Manager (LSOM)
      • 2.3.4 Object Store Filesystem (OSFS)
      • 2.3.5 The Cluster Management, Monitoring, and Directory Service (CMMDS)
      • 2.3.6 Reliable Datagram Transport (RDT)
      • 2.3.7 Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM)
  •  vSAN Technology and Features Overview
    • 3.1 Architecture Overview
    •  3.2 vSAN Key Features
      • 3.2.1 Management
      • 3.2.2 Space Efficiency
      • 3.2.3 Deduplication and Compression
      •  3.2.4 Host and vSphere Cluster Failure Tolerance
        • 3.2.4.1 Data Integrity (Software Checksum)
        • 3.2.4.2 Rack Awareness (Fault Domains)
      • 3.2.5 Snapshots and Clones
      • 3.2.6 Swap Efficiency
      • 3.2.7 Quality of Service
      • 3.2.8 Data Locality (Locality of Reference)
      •  3.2.9 Scalability
        • 3.2.9.1 Support for High-Density Storage Systems with Direct-Attached JBOD
        • 3.2.9.2 Capacity Planning
        • 3.2.9.3 vSAN 6.2 Scalability Limits
      •  3.2.10 Enterprise Availability and Data Protection
        • 3.2.10.1 vSphere High Availability Integration
        • 3.2.10.2 vSAN Stretched Cluster
        • 3.2.10.3 Remote and Branch Offices
        • 3.2.10.4 vSAN Replication
        • 3.2.10.5 Support for Multi-Processor Fault Tolerance
      •  3.2.11 Encryption
        • 3.2.11.1 HyTrust DataControl
      • 3.2.12 Maximum Performance and Low Latencies
      • 3.2.13 Application Support
      • 3.2.14 vSAN Hybrid Architecture
      • 3.2.15 vSAN All-Flash Architecture
      • 3.2.16 Comparing Hybrid and All-Flash Configurations
  •  vSAN Monitoring
    •  4.1 Performance Service
      • 4.1.1 Cluster Metrics
      • 4.1.2 Host Metrics
      • 4.1.3 Virtual Machine Metrics
    • 4.2 Health Service
    • 4.3 VSAN Observer
    • 4.4 vRealize Operations Manager Monitoring
  •  vSAN Design Overview
    • 5.1 vSAN Hardware Compatibility List
    • 5.2 vSAN Ready Systems
    • 5.3 Single Node Design
    • 5.4 vSAN Cluster Design
    • 5.5 vSAN Design Principles
    •  5.6 vSAN Requirements
      •  5.6.1 vSphere Requirements
        • 5.6.1.1 Host Memory Requirements
        • 5.6.1.2 Host CPU Overhead
      •  5.6.2 vSAN Cluster and Datastore Design
        • 5.6.2.1 vSAN Disk Format
        • 5.6.2.2 Disk Group Design
        • 5.6.2.3 Datastore Sizing
        • 5.6.2.4 Hosts per Cluster
        • 5.6.2.5 The Impact on Sizing of the Number of Failures-to-Tolerate Policy
      •  5.6.3 Storage Device Requirements
        • 5.6.3.1 Disk Controllers
        • 5.6.3.2 Mechanical Disk Devices
        • 5.6.3.3 Flash-Based Devices
      •  5.6.4 Network Requirements
        • 5.6.4.1 Network Design
        • 5.6.4.2 Network Interface Cards (NIC)
        • 5.6.4.3 Virtual Switches
        • 5.6.4.4 VMkernel Network Port Group
        • 5.6.4.5 Network Speed Requirements
        • 5.6.4.6 Jumbo Frames
        • 5.6.4.7 VLANs
        • 5.6.4.8 Multicast Requirements
        • 5.6.4.9 Networking Failover, Load Balancing and Teaming Considerations
        • 5.6.4.10 Network QoS and Network I/O Control
      •  5.6.5 vSAN Policy Design
        • 5.6.5.1 vSAN Policy Capabilities
        • 5.6.5.2 vSAN Default Policy
        • 5.6.5.3 Application Requirements
    • 5.7 vSAN and Recoverability
    •  5.8 Understanding How Failures Impact vSAN
      • 5.8.1 Absent Failures
      • 5.8.2 Degraded Failures
    • 5.9 Summary of Key vSAN Design Factors
  •  vSAN Performance Testing
    •  6.1.1 Tools Used for Performance Testing
      • 6.1.1.1 Storage Policy Configuration for Performance Testing
  •  Eight Common Service Provider Use Cases
    •  7.1 Local Data Center Site Deployment Model
      • 7.1.1 Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3 Workloads
      • 7.1.2 Management and Cloud Management Platform Clusters
      • 7.1.3 DMZ/Isolated Clusters
      • 7.1.4 Development Platform Clusters
      • 7.1.5 Backup/Disaster Recovery Target
    • 7.2 Remote and Branch Offices
    •  7.3 vSAN Stretched Cluster Deployments
      • 7.3.1 vSAN Witness
    • 7.4 Hosted SDDC
    • 7.5 Hosted Private SDDC Cloud
    • 7.6 Public Cloud (vCloud Director for Service Providers)
    • 7.7 VMware Integrated OpenStack
    • 7.8 Horizon and End User Computing
  • Conclusion
  • Assumptions and Caveats
  •  Reference Documents
    • 10.1 Supporting Documentation
    • 10.2 Tools
    •  10.3 Further Information
      • 10.3.1 VMware Ready Nodes
      • 10.3.2 VMware Compatibility Guide
      • 10.3.3 vSAN Community Page
      • 10.3.4 Key Bloggers
      • 10.3.5 Links to Existing Documentation
      • 10.3.6 VMware Support
      • 10.3.7 Additional Reading
•  Leveraging vSAN for Highly Available Management Clusters
  •  Introduction
    • 1.1 Overview
    • 1.2 Document Purpose and Scope
    • 1.3 Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
  •  Solution Architecture Overview
    • 2.1 Management Cluster Conceptual Overview
    •  2.2 vSAN Conceptual Overview
      • 2.2.1 Number of Nodes
      • 2.2.2 Fault Domains Setting
      • 2.2.3 Failures to Tolerate policy
      • 2.2.4 vSAN and vSphere HA considerations
    • 2.3 Availability Concepts Overview
  •  Cloud Service Provider Use Case
    • 3.1 Business Drivers
    •  3.2 Cloud Service Provider Considerations
      • 3.2.1 Multisite Service Provider Considerations
    • 3.3 Tenant Viewpoint
    • 3.4 vSAN Monitoring
    • 3.5 vSAN Operations
  •  Use Case Architecture
    • 4.1 Two-Node vSAN Management Cluster Overview
    • 4.2 Management Cluster Operation Restrictions
    •  4.3 Witnesses and Witness Host
      • 4.3.1 Witness Host
      • 4.3.2 Witness Host Virtual Appliance
      • 4.3.3 Witness Host and Virtual Appliance Sizing
    • 4.4 Architecture Prerequisites and Constraints
  • Conclusion
  • References
•  Developing a Hyper-Converged Storage Strategy
  • Introduction
  • Audience
  •  Solution Overview
    • 3.1 vSAN Overview
    • 3.2 Enabling vSAN Storage for vCloud Director
  • vSAN Storage Resource Isolation
  •  vCloud Director Storage Design with vSAN
    • 5.1 Model 1: Multiple Tiered Resource Clusters as Dedicated Provider VDCs
    • 5.2 Model 2: Single Provider VDC Hosting Multiple Tiered Resource Clusters
  • vSAN Storage Policy Based Management
  • Impact of vSAN on vCloud Director Compute and Network Resources
  • vCloud Director NFS Storage Requirements
  • Conclusion
•  VMware vSAN Two-Node Architecture Service Provider Use Cases
  • Introduction
  • vSAN Two-Node Architecture Overview
  •  Service Provider Sample Use Cases
    • 3.1 Use Case 1– Extended Data Center Hosted Services
    • 3.2 Use Case 2 – On-Premises / Off-Premises Stretched Applications
    • 3.3 Use Case 3 – Small Medium Enterprise (SME) Public Cloud Broker Deployments
  • Summary
•  Operational Savings of a vSAN
  • Executive Overview
  • Understanding the VMware vSAN Value Proposition
  • Understanding the Changing Economics of Storage
  • Identifying and Measuring the Operational Savings of vSAN
  •  Understanding Operational Transformation with vSAN
    • Scenario 1: Initial Storage Platform Deployment
    • Scenario 2: Modifying Service Levels / Workload Configuration
    • Scenario 3: Increasing Capacity and Scaling
  • Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
  • Calculating the Cost of Operations
  • Building a Business Case for vSAN
  • How to Build a Cost Comparison for vSAN
  • Understanding the Impact of Number of Failures to Tolerate
  • Checklist for Decision Makers
  • Summary
  • Disclaimer
  • References
•  Architecting a vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Solution
  • Introduction
  •  Use Cases
    • 2.1 Disaster Recovery
    • 2.2 Migration
  •  vCloud Availability Architecture Design Overview
    • 3.1 vCloud Availability Architecture
    • 3.2 Network Flows
    • 3.3 Conceptual Architecture
  •  vCloud Availability Management Components
    •  4.1 Logical Architecture
      • 4.1.1 vCloud Director Management Components
      • 4.1.2 vSphere Management Components
    • 4.2 vCloud Availability Portal
    •  4.3 Cloud Proxy
      • 4.3.1 From-the-Cloud Tunnel
      • 4.3.2 Cloud Proxy Load Balancing
      • 4.3.3 Cloud Proxy Certificates
      • 4.3.4 vCloud API Load Balancing
    • 4.4 RabbitMQ
    • 4.5 Cassandra Database
    •  4.6 VMware Platform Services Controller
      • 4.6.1 Single-Site
      • 4.6.2 Multi-Site
    • 4.7 vSphere Replication Cloud Service
    • 4.8 vSphere Replication Manager
    • 4.9 vSphere Replication Servers
    • 4.10 ESXi Hosts
    • 4.11 vCloud Availability Metering
    • 4.12 vRealize Orchestrator
    • 4.13 Management Component Resiliency Considerations
  •  vCloud Director Configuration
    •  5.1 User Roles
      • 5.1.1 vCloud Director 8.20 Changes
    •  5.2 Tenant Limits and Leases
      • 5.2.1 Limits
      • 5.2.2 Leases
    •  5.3 Organization Virtual Data Center
      • 5.3.1 Org VDC with Disaster Recovery Capabilities
      • 5.3.2 Org VDC Architecture
    • 5.4 Network Management
    •  5.5 Storage Management
      • 5.5.1 MPIT Storage Snapshots
      • 5.5.2 Moving Replica Disks
      • 5.5.3 Storage Management Recommendations
    • 5.6 vApps and Virtual Machines
  • Billing
  •  vRealize Orchestrator Configuration
    • 7.1 On-Premises Deployment
    • 7.2 In-the-Cloud Deployment
    • 7.3 Provider Deployment
    • 7.4 Failover Orchestration
  •  Monitoring
    • 8.1 Component Monitoring
    • 8.2 VM Replication Monitoring
    • 8.3 Backup Strategy
  • Appendix A – Port Requirements / Firewall Rules
  • Appendix B – Glossary
  • Appendix C – Maximums
  • Appendix D – Reference Documents
  • Appendix E – Tenant API Structure
  • Appendix F – Undocumented HybridSettings vCloud API
  • Appendix G – Monitoring

Overview

Appendix G – Monitoring