Virt-VSC
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This document provides an overview of VMware concepts and the NetApp Virtual Storage Console. It defines various VMware jargons related to virtualization like hypervisor, ESX, virtual machines, datastores, and vMotion. It then describes the NetApp Virtual Storage Console as a tool that provides integrated virtual storage management for VMware vSphere from within the vCenter interface. It leverages NetApp technologies to manage SAN and NAS storage for VMware environments. The document outlines the main components of the Virtual Storage Console like monitoring, provisioning, optimization, and backup capabilities.
Virt-VSC
- 1. VMware Concepts Introduction to Virtual Storage Console - Kaushik Chakraborty Lets Talk VSC 1NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only
- 2. Virtualization Jargons (VMware specific) 2NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only Virtualization Hypervisor ESX and ESXi Virtual Machine Guest Operating System Datastores vCenter Server vSphere Client vSphere Web Client VMFS NFS .vmdk | *-flat.vmdk | .vmx | .vmxf | .vswp | . vmsd | .vmss | .vmsn | Vmotion vSphere SDK SMP(Symmetric Multi‐Processing) HA(High Availability) DRS(Distributed Resource Scheduler) VCB(Vmware Consistency Backup)
- 4. NetApp® Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for VMware® vSphere™ Provides integrated, end-to-end virtual storage management for the VMware infrastructure. Leverages NetApp technologies to deliver centralized management of NetApp storage operations—in both SAN- and NAS-based VMware virtual server and desktop infrastructures Right from the VMware vCenter™. Fun Fact : Originally, it combined three separate NetApp products (VSC 1.0, Rapid Cloning Utility, SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure) as "subplugin" components into a single vSphere Client extension, but the three products still operated independently even requiring the VMware administrator to add controller in separate UIs in each of the three components of VSC. VSC 1.0 is the present day MnHC. Rapid Clone Utility is the present day PnC
- 5. VSC Components 5NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only Monitoring & Host Configuration (formerly - VSC 1.0) Provisioning & Cloning Optimization & Migration NetApp vSphere Plugin Framework Legacy Backup & Recovery Next Gen Backup & Recovery - based on Snap*
- 6. The Plugin Framework 6NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only
- 7. 7NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only VSC in action
- 9. 9NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only
Editor's Notes
- #4: First introduced in VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware Consolidated Backup is a proxy server that assisted with local area network-free backups of virtual machines (VMs). This configuration eliminates the backup traffic from a network, freeing up ESX server resources for VM performance. Other key features of VCB include the following: > full and incremental file-level VM backups, in addition to full image backups; > support for network-attached storage, Fibre Channel, local or iSCSI storage infrastructures; and > allows for backup management from a centralized point.