Information Technology Center

VMware vCenter Server install and Configuration

with SAN fiber Channel

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VMware vSphere................................................................................................. 4
VMware infrastructure ......................................................................................................................... 5
Physical topology of VMware Infrastructure Data center ............................................................ 6
Host, Cluster, Resource Pool ............................................................................................................. 8
VMware VMotion .................................................................................................................................. 9
VMware DRS .......................................................................................................................................... 9
VMware HA .......................................................................................................................................... 10
Network Architecture ......................................................................................................................... 11
Storage Architecture .......................................................................................................................... 11
RAW Device Mapping ......................................................................................................................... 12

SAN Switch Storage .................................................................................14

SAN (Storage Area Network) ............................................................................................................. 14
SAN ............................................................................................................................... 15
SAN ..................................................................................................... 16

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Spec ......................................................................... 20

VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 VMware vCenter 5.1 .......................22

VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1................................................................................................. 22
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 .......................................................................... 34

SAN Switch ...................................................................................56

Zoning ....................................................................................................................................... 56
configuration SAN Switch .......................................................................................................... 58

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VMware VCenter Server SAN

ICS , ERS, MES , Webhosting

(Virtual Machine System) VMware
VMware vSphere

(21 )
VMware
VMware vCenter
(Cluster)
(VMware vMotion )
( Data Store) SAN (Storage Area Network ) NAS ( Network
Attachment Storage)
(Data Store ) SAN 2 EMC
NetApp

1. VMware vSphere
2. SAN Switch Storage
3.
4. VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 VMware vCenter 5.0
5. SAN Switch
6.

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SAN

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VMware vSphere
VMware (Virtual Machine)
Hypervisor (Physical machine)

Hypervisor 2
- Native bare metal
- Hosted

2 hosted
windows bare metal physical
machine
hosted VMware server, VMware player,
VMware view, Virtualbox oracle native bare
metal ESX, ESXi, hyper-v
VMware VMware 3

o Desktop VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion

Virtualization OS
o Server VMware vSphere Enterprise
( Server) VMware OS
Server 2 ESX ESXi

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o Management vCenter ESX,
ESXi
VMware infrastructure
VMware
VMware

- VMware ESXi Server

CPU, Memory ,
Network Storage Hypervisor
- VMware vCenter VMware ESXi Server
vCenter Server
physical machine virtual machine vCenter
(Administrator) vSphere configuration clusters, hosts, VMs,
storage, guest OS feature virtual infrastructure

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Physical topology of VMware Infrastructure Data center

Storage Network
check VMware
VMware vCenter Storage Virtual
Machine Guest Storage performance

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Virtual Data Center Architecture

Storage Virtual Machine

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Host, Cluster, Resource Pool

resource pool
host VMware ESXi group Cluster resource
monitor VMware guest resource
resource resource pool group server

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VMware VMotion

VMware vCenter Cluster Feature

vMotion VMware Guest host host
resource down time
VMware DRS

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VMware DRS resource host cluster
VMware guest host policy
VMware HA

VMware High Available

Cluster VMware Down
feature VMware HA VMware guest host
down time feature feature VMware vMotion

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Network Architecture

Network architecture
network VMware host NIC
interface VMware Virtual Switch VMware Guest
network port link aggregate band width
Trunk Port tag VLAN
Virtual Switch VMware Support Storage
iSCSI NFS
Storage Architecture
Storage VMware Data Store disk file
1 Data Store map LUN source
iSCSI , NFS, FC SAN, DAS SCSI performance source
Data Store

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Storage architecture
RAW Device Mapping
file system VMware VMFS-5 block size 2M file size
data store 2 TB Application file
VMware feature RAW Device mapping RAW
device Mapping Disk storage file size
Storage assign performance bus
storage

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RAW Device Mapping

VMware feature
internet
Configuration

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SAN Switch Storage

SAN (Storage Area Network)
SAN (Storage Area Network) NAS (Network Attached Storage)

Direct Attached Storage (DAS)

SAN
LAN
LAN
LAN
Hard Disk Tape Backup LAN
SAN
SAN
SCSI Adapter
SCSI
SCSI LAN
Workstation LAN LAN

SAN Fiber Channel
LAN

SAN

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SAN
-
-
Hub Ethernet Switching Hub
- Hub Fiber Channel Hub

- Fiber Channel
SAN Fiber Channel Hub Fiber
Channel Adapter
Bus Star Ring
SAN
3
1. Server to Storage

Access
2. Server to Server
Server
3. Storage to Storage

SAN
1. SAN Servers
Platform Windows
NT, Unix, Linux OS/390 SAN
2. SAN Storage
SAN storage device
SAN

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SAN Storage
3. SAN Interconnect
SAN

SAN Interconnect Switch

SAN
1. Cable Connector
Cable SAN 2 fiber optic
30 fiber optic 2
Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF) 2 SingleMode Fiber (SMF) 10
2. Gigabit Link Model (GLM)
Fiber Channel
interface Fiber Channel
3. Gigabit Interface Adapter (GIA)
Hub switches fiber optic
Hub switches
4. Media Interface Adapter (MIA)
Interface fiber optic
MIA adapter host bus switches Hub
switches Hub fiber optic MIA

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5. Adapter

Adapter GLM (Gigabit/Global/Generic Link
Module)
6. Extenders
node node
7. Multiplexors

8. Hubs
Fiber Channel Hub node 126 node 1 loop node
bandwidth port hub Port Bypass Circuit (PBC)
9. Routers
Router
storage router FCP (SCSI)
10. Bridges
LAN SAN

11. Gateways
2
IBM SAN data Gateway
SCSI device
12. Switches
device bandwidth
throughput
4. SAN Application
SAN

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SAN Aplication
5. Managing SAN
SAN (switches, router, etc.)
Simple Network Management
(SNMP), Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Enterprise Storage Resources
Management (ESRM)
SAN Software package ESRM
SAN resource
SAN


SAN
fiber optic switch

SAN

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SAN Fiber Channel
Fiber
Channel Switch SAN

SAN
SAN
SAN
bandwidth
LAN SAN MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)
150


SAN
Fiber Channel SAN
SAN
1. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Fiber Channel
Fiber Channel Fiber
Channel Fiber Channel

2. Fiber Channel
10 Fiber optic
Multimode 250 500

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VMware EXSi (Physical

machine) VMware
ESXi vCenter VMware ESXi Storage
Fiber Feature VMware VMDirectPath I/O
Maping LUN Stoarage
Spec
General
Manufacturer:
Model:
Processors:
Processor Type:
Hyperthreading:
Total Memory:
Number of NICs:
State:
Virtual Machines:
vMotion Enabled:
Active Tasks:
Resources
CPU Utilization:
Memory Utilization:
Datastores
vmd-03_datastore:
Networks
Manage 10.10.39.0
VLAN 10.10.31.0
VNIC-TrunkPort
vMotion

Dell Inc.
PowerEdge R710
8 CPU x 2.26 GHz
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520 @ 2.27GHz
Active
31.99 GB
4
Connected
3
No
No
0
73
Capacity: 131.00 GB (105.40 GB free)

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VMDirectPath I/O Configuration

Software
- VMware vSphere 5.1
- VMware vCenter 5.1
- Java RE

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VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 VMware vCenter 5.1

VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1
Spec VMware VMware vSphere 5.1
CPU 8 core
Memory 16G
Network 1Gb
FC 1 QLogic Corp ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA (2432)
FC 2 QLogic Corp ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA (2432)

Spec

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1. Mount CD scan hardware check compatible

2. boot

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3.

4. Accept license Agreement

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5. Disk

6. default ( US english)

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7. Root password

8. Check hardware Compatible

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9.

10. reboot

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11. reboot server

12. Start VMware vSphere

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13. VMware vSphere

14. login root configuration network management

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15. configure network management

16. Adaptor ( LAN Card)

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17. IP configuration

18. IP Address

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19. DNS

20. DNS Server

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21. Restart host

22.

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VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1
VMware vCenter Server appliance
download vmware.com appliance license os database
VMware vCenter Appliance
Spec
- CPU 2 core
- Memory 8G
- Network 1G
- Disk1 25G
- Disk2 100G

Spec

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1. deploy OVF file download vmware.com

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2. vCenter Appliance

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3.

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4. Datastore

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5. Network

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6. IP Address

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7. configuration

8. Deploy

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9. login config

10. Login user root/vmware default user vmware

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11. exec config network

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12. Config network

13. IP netmask

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14. DNS

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15.

16. gateway

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17. 0

18. restart

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19. web browser https://hostname:5480 config SSO server
, Inventory Server, Active Directory

20. Accept License Agreement

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21. Custom Config SSO Create database

22. Database embedded

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23. test install

24. Configuration

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25. Join AD

26. set restart

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27. login vCenter vSphere Client

28. permission group user VMware

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29. group user Domain Controller

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30. administrator object vCenter
ESXi vCenter User group

31. login user group

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32. login

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SAN Switch
CPU Memory interface
Storage
Storage Disk Pool
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disk)
disk Raid group Pool
LUN (Logical Unit)
LUN Storage
port fiber channel
SAN Switch
Broadcasting port
LUN
Disk
SAN Switch Zoning LUN LUN

Zoning
group port fiber port port
fiber channel WWN (World Wide name )
ip address network WWN
SAN Switch map WWN Alias Group Port

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SAN Computer

Concept LUN

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configuration SAN Switch
Configuration SAN Switch 2 Command line Web
Configuration Web tools
Command line
Web Tools
1. Web browser
2.

3. web tools
Menu bar

status pane

admin domain

switch view

Tasks pane

Indicator bar

switch information

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menu bar SAN Switch

tasks pane SAN Switch
status pane SAN Switch
switch view SAN Switch
switch information SAN Switch
indicator bar SAN Switch

4. status pane

Healthy
Marginal
Critical
Unmonitored

5. Tasks pane Manage, Monitor, other

6. Manage SAN Switch
- Switch Admin

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SAN Switch, Domain ID, Serial number

IP address SAN Switch

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Update firmware

firmware version

License SAN Swich

license

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User account

- Zone Admin
Alias name WWN SAN Switch

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Zone server storage SAN
Switch
Zone name

Zone member

Zone Config zone

Zone active name
zone config member

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- Port Admin
Port number

Port statistics

detail

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7. Monitor event log

alias Web Tools

1. Zone Admin task pane

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2. tab Alias

3. New Alias

4.

5. Alias
6. OK

7. member Alias WWNs Member Selection List

8. WWN Alias

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9. Add Member

10. Alias name FI_Storage_HBA0 member

11. Alias
zone member zone Web Tools
1. Zone Admin task pane

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2. Zone tab

3. New Zone

4.

5. Zone

6. OK
7. Zone name
8. add member Zone name

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Zone name CX4_240_SPA2_SPB3_FI_DW_HBA0

member
Alias
9. Zone

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zone config member zone config Web Tools
1. Zone Config tab

2. New Zone Config

3.

4. Zone Config name

5. OK
6. Zone Config name

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7. add zone Zone Config

Zone Config ZoneConfig
member

8. Save tab Save Config

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9.

Yes
10.

11. tab Enable Config SAN Switch

12.

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13.

14.

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SAN VMware
VMware ESXi VMware vCenter Zoning SAN Switch
SAN Storage VMware ESXi Server
1. login vCenter Sever Add VMware ESXi

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2. Create DATA Center

3. Add Host

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4. fqn vmware ESXi vm-test.nida.local

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5. add

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6. license key

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7. lock down mode ( Lock down
login host ESXi )

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8.

Data Center

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9. add host

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10. add

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11. check Storage 1 datastore

12. Assign LUN Storage Fiber channel ESXi host

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13. login Navi Sphere

14. LUN

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15. LUN 50G

16. Comfirm for LUN Create

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17. Create

18. Create Storage group

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19. Storage group

20. Connect Storage group Host

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21. host

22. LUN Create

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23.

24. Create

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25. LUN Create Host ESXi

26. Login vCenter host vm-test.nida.local configuration

storage adaptor vmhba2 vmhba3 show disk assign

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50G

27. add storage

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28. Add storage

29. file system VMFS-5

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30. storage

31. Data Store

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32. Size

33. data store

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34. Data store

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35. deploy vmware template

36.

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