Introduction
Part I: Storage Protocols and Block devices
Chapter 1 Storage Types
Chapter 2 Fibre Channel Storage Connectivity
Chapter 3 FCoE Storage Connectivity
Chapter 4 iSCSI Storage Connectivity
Chapter 5 VMware Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA)
Chapter 6 ALUA
Chapter 7 Multipathing and Failover
Chapter 8 3rd party Multipathing Plug-ins
Chapter 9 Using heterogeneous storage configurations
Chapter 10 Using VMDirectPath I/O
Chapter 11 Storage Virtualization Devices (SVDs)
Part 2: File Systems
Chapter 12 VMFS Architecture
Chapter 13 Virtual Disks and RDMs
Chapter 14 Distributed Locks
Chapter 15 Snapshot handling
Chapter 16 NFS
Chapter 17 VAAI
Chapter 18 Storage vMotion (including Enhanced Storage VMotion “aka X-vmotion”)
Chapter 19 VisorFS
Chapter 20 VASA
Chapter 21 Storage Policies
Chapter 22 Virtual SAN
Chapter 23 Virtual Volumes (VVols)
Part 3: Storage Design Considerations
Chapter 24 Design for Success
Chapter 25 Performance Optimization and Monitoring
Chapter 26 LUN sizing design decisions and Best Practices
Chapter 27 Vendor specific Configuration
Chapter 28 Hyper Converged Storage and Storage Virtual Appliances (SVAs)
Chapter 29 Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)

About the Author

Mostafa Khalil is a senior staff engineer at VMware. He is a senior member of the VMware Engineering team and has worked for VMware for more than 18 years. Prior to joining VMware, he worked at Lotus/IBM. A native of Egypt, Mostafa graduated from the Al-Azhar University’s School of Medicine and practiced medicine in Cairo. He became intrigued by the mini computer system used in his medical practice and began to educate himself about computing and networking technologies. After moving to the United States, Mostafa continued to focus on computing and acquired several professional certifications, including VCDX (3, 4, 5, and 6), VCAP (4, 5, and 6)-DCD, VCAP4-DCA, VCP (2, 3, 4, 5, and 6), MCSE, Master CNE, HP ASE, IBM CSE, and Lotus CLP.

As storage became a central element in the virtualization environment, Mostafa became an expert in this field. He has delivered several seminars and troubleshooting workshops at various VMware public events in the United States and elsewhere around the world.

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