Term
| Describe the process to Mount an NFS Datastore |
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Definition
Go to the host's configuration tab and click 'Add storage'.
Select 'NFS' as the storage type.
Enter the NFS Server Name or IP, the mount point and a desired name for the datastore.
If the volume has been exported as read only, be sure to select Mount NFS Read only. |
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Term
| Describe the process to unmount an NFS Datastore |
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Definition
| Right click the datastore and select unmount! |
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Term
| Explain why you may have multiple VMFS/NFS datastores because you have separate spindles |
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Definition
| Having different spindles can help with performance. If multiple VMs, especially I/O intensive VMs are all sitting on the same datastore, there could be latency and performance issues. |
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Term
| Explain why separate RAID groups may lead to multiple VMFS/NFS datastores |
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Definition
| For certain applications, such as critical applications, you may require a different RAID configuration. E.g. you may use a different RAID configuration for the disks that logs sit on an a DB sits on for SQL server |
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Term
| Explain why you might end up with multiple NFS/VMFS datastores for redundancy |
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Definition
| If you are doing any sort of replication, you would want your replicated VMs to sit on different disks than your production VMs in the case of failure of production storage |
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Term
| Explain why Tiered Storage may lead to multiple NFS/VMFS datastores |
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Definition
| You may have a use case to have storage formatted in different arrays to service different tier applications. |
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