VMware vSphere® Metro Storage Cluster Recommended Practices

Purpose and Overview

This section provides a brief description of VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster, how it is beneficial to the environment and the right audience to target.

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Purpose and Overview
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Target Audience

Introduction

In this section, we describe the basic architecture referred in this guide. We also discuss basic configuration and performance of the various vSphere features.

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Introduction
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Technical Requirements and Constraints
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Uniform Versus Non-uniform vMSC Configurations
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Infrastructure Architecture
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vSphere Configuration
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vSphere HA
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vSphere DRS
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vSphere Storage DRS

Failure Scenarios

In this section, we discuss a few of the “common” failure scenarios.

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Failure Scenarios
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Single-Host Failure in Frimley Data Center
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Single-Host Isolation in Frimley Data Center
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Storage Partition
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Data Center Partition
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Disk Shelf Failure in Frimley Data Center
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Full Storage Failure in Frimley Data Center
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Permanent Device Loss
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Full Compute Failure in Frimley Data Center
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Loss of Frimley Data Center

Summary and Acknowledgement

This section summarizes the importance of site affinity, the role of vSphere HA and many more. It also covers details about the author of this guide, and acknowledges other contributors.

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Summary
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About the Author
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Acknowledgements

VMware vSphere® Metro Storage Cluster Recommended Practices

Playlists

Purpose and Overview

Introduction

Failure Scenarios

Summary and Acknowledgement

Purpose and Overview

Introduction

Failure Scenarios

Summary and Acknowledgement