Dell PowerStore: VMware vSphere Best Practices

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  Introduction
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  Audience
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  Revisions
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  We value your feedback

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  PowerStore overview
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  vSphere overview
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  Prerequisite reading
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  Terminology

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  Introduction
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  Queue depth
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  Timeouts
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  Multipathing
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  Operating system disk formats

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  Introduction
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  NVMe-oF vVols
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  NVMe/FC host configurations
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  NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP)

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  Introduction
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  Volume and VMFS datastore sizing
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  Performance optimizations
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  Partition alignment
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  Guest vSCSI adapter selection
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  Array offload technologies
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  Block
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  File

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  Introduction
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  Mapping or unmapping practices
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  Thin clones
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  Data encryption
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  Space reclamation
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  VASA
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  Virtual Volumes
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  Scripting and automation
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  Virtual Storage Integrator
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  vRealize Orchestrator

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  Introduction
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  Snapshots and recoveries
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  Secure snapshots
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  Snapshots and options for application backup and restore
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  Crash consistent and application consistent snapshots
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  Replication and remote recovery
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  PowerStore backup to PowerProtect DD series appliances

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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  VMware documentation