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VMware Concepts Introduction to Virtual Storage

Console

- Kaushik Chakraborty

Lets Talk VSC

Virtualization Jargons (VMware specific)

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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(DistributedResource Scheduler) VCB(VmwareConsistency Backup)

VMware Infrastructure

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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

VSC Components

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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*

The Plugin Framework

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VSC in action

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