Scenario 1
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Scenario:
You need to configure tiered storage in your vSphere environment. Some storage is built on SAS devices, some is built on SATA devices, and some is built on SSD devices. You need to create a set of user-defined storage capabilities and assign the appropriate capability to each VMFS datastore. Yo
u need to define a set of VM storage profiles and assign the appropriate storage profile to each VM. You need to migrate each VM to the appropriate storage tier.
Requirements:
- Create three user-defined storage capabilities named SAS, SATA, and SSD.
- Create three storage profiles named Tier-1, Tier-2, and Tier-3.
- Assign the best-performing storage capability to Tier-1, the worst-performing storage capability to Tier-3, and the remaining storage capability to Tier-2.
Environment Information:
- SSD-based datastores: VMFS-10 and VMFS-20
- SATA-based datastores: VMFS-11 and VMFS-21
- SAS-based datastores: VMFS-12 and VMFS-22
- Tier-1 VMs: vm-10, vm-11
- Tier-2 VMs: vm-12, vm-13
- Tier-3 VMs: vm-14, vm-15
Objective: 1.1 Implement and Manage Complex Storage Solutions
Guide Reference(s):
- Chapter 3 - Configuring and Administering Profile-based Storage
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Solution
- Use the vSphere client to enable storage profiles.
- Create the user capabilities.
- Create VM storage profile named Tier-1, and assign the SSD capability to it.
- Create VM storage profile named Tier-2, and assign the SAS capability to it.
- Create VM storage profile named Tier-3, and assign the SATA capability to it.
- Migrate vm-10, choose profile = Tier-1, and select either compliant datastore.
- Migrate vm-11, choose profile = Tier-1, and select either compliant datastore.
- Migrate vm-12, choose profile = Tier-2, and select either compliant datastore.
- Migrate vm-13, choose profile = Tier-2, and select either compliant datastore.
- Migrate vm-14, choose profile = Tier-3, and select either compliant datastore.
- Migrate vm-15, choose profile = Tier-3, and select either compliant datastore.