Virtualization Storage Concepts, APIs and Performance Best Practices

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Author(s)/Presenter(s):

Aditya Vasudevan

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Abstract

Virtualization is a key technology to enabling cloud infrastructure. So we present virtualization-storage concepts such as virtual datastores, thin/thick disks, etc from virtualization stand point, in this case VMware as it’s the market leader. We also present the APIs available to the storage community which can improve IO efficiency by making the storage VM-aware and offloading work to it. Finally we present storage configuration best practices for high performance in VMware platform.

Learning Objectives

Learn the storage options and concepts on virtual platform (VMware)
Learn about vStorage APIs which allows Storage integration with virtual platform
Learn the best practices to configure storage for high performance on a virtual platform