Course Description
Virtual machines are files, which means that VM management is in part storage management. This course covers storage management for a VMware vSphere 6.5 environment. It also covers virtual machine creation and management.
Learning Objectives
Defining vSphere Storage Concepts
- start the course
- identify what storage needs are present in ESXi and vCenter Server
- identify the correct terms to describe storage on an ESXi server
- identify what forms of local storage are available for a vSphere environment
- identify what forms of NAS and SAN storage are available for a vSphere environment
Configuring vSphere Storage
- create a datastore on an attached disk
- create a datastore on an NFS share
- add a second ESXi host to an NFS datastore
- add an ESXi software iSCSI adapter
- connect ESXi to an existing iSCSI target LUN
- create a datastore on an iSCSI disk
- add a second ESXi host to an iSCSI datastore
- create a vCenter library
Using vSphere Storage
- navigate and transfer files with an ESXi datastore
Practice: Configuring Datastores
- connect to a disk and mount it as a datastore on ESXi using the vCenter Web Client