Virtually Speaking: vSAN Express Storage Architecture
This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome Pete Koehler to share details of the expanded hardware support options for vSAN Express Storage Architecture.
Quick Tip – Retrieving the vSAN Rekey Interval using PowerCLI
Since the release of vSAN 6.5.1, the PowerCLI team has introduced a number of high level vSAN cmdlets (current list HERE) that can be used to automate a variety of tasks. While the existing vSAN cmdlets are quite extensive and continues to get updated with new functionality, it will never be […]
Expanded Hardware Compatibility for vSAN Express Storage Architecture
vSAN ReadyNodes certified for use with the Express Storage Architecture now support lower endurance, Read-Intensive devices. Read on to learn more how this can lower costs for environments that have modest workload requirements.
Yes, you can change things on a vSAN ESA ReadyNode
First I’m going to ask you to go check out the following KB and take 2-3 minutes and read it. : https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/90343 Pay extra attention to the table from this document it links to. […]
VCF on VxRail New Node Addition Failed to Discovery on SDDC
VCF 4.5 with VxRail 7.0.450 new node addition failed due to incorrect NIC firmware, we applied the support version of NIC,then tried to read the node still failed with a blank screen. When checking the Domain Manager logs /var/log/vmware/vcf/domainmanager/domainmanager.log, found […]
vSAN 8: Architecture and Essential Terminology – Virtualization Blog
This is part of the VMware vSAN guide post series. By using the following link, you can access and explore more objectives from the VMware vSAN study guide. vSAN, or VMware vSAN, as mentioned in the previous post is a software-defined storage solution that operates as part of the ESXi hypervisor.
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 – Technical Overview
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 added new capabilities and consumption models. Find here all you need to know.
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3 upgrade to 5.0
Demonstration showing the full upgrade path from VCF 4.3 to VCF 5.0.
Announcing vSAN Stretched Clusters for Azure VMware Solution
VMware vSAN Stretched Clusters for Azure VMware Solution enable businesses to achieve high availability of their mission-critical applications and data by leveraging the capabilities of VMware vSAN to provide protection across multiple availability zones. This provides 99.99% uptime for applications with the highest availability requirements.
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 Is Available for Cloud Services Providers
Leverage this latest release’s new capabilities to improve performance for AI/ML and modern application workloads, operational efficiency improvements for maintenance, multi-tenancy network segmentation and security analytics updates, and integration improvements for Aria monitoring and operations. Cloud services providers can also benefit from skip upgrades from VCF 4.3.x, 4.4.x and 4.5 deployments as well as create … Continued The post VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 Is Available for Cloud…Read More
Expanding vSAN ESA Cluster Capacity – Virtualization Blog
If your vSAN ESA cluster is running low on storage capacity or if you are considering expanding the capacity of the cluster, you’ll be pleased to know that the process has become even more streamlined and convenient with the introduction of its new architecture (ESA). In the original vSAN […]
Lifecycle Management on VxRail 8.0
VxRail LCM has some great features including the Compliance Report (shows where your system is out of compliance against the Continuously Validated State), the Update Advisory Report (shows what your future state would look like if the selected update is performed and which components would need […]
Using Fault Domains in vSAN ESA
How does vSAN’s Express Storage Architecture (ESA) help configurations using the vSAN Fault Domains feature? Read on to learn more!
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 running on Intel NUC
Interested in trying out the latest release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.0? Don’t have some beefy hardware to meet all the requirements, not to worry! Did you know you can actually deploy a VCF Management Domain using just a single Intel NUC or simliar small form factor system? This is exactly how I kicked […]
HomeLab Stage LXIX: vSAN ESA – VCDX #181 Marc Huppert
In my last episode HomeLab Stage LXVIII: NSX-ALB, I have written about my AVI implementation inside my #HomeLab. I really like the setup, which I am using for customer demos and PoCs. This time I am focusing on one of […]
What’s New with vSphere and vSAN in VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0
Today VMware announced the availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0. As part of this release, the software bill of materials that makes up Cloud Foundation was updated to include the latest versions of vSphere and vSAN. vSphere 8.0 Update 1 (including ESXi and vCenter Server) and vSAN 8.0 Update 1 both include numerous new features and … Continued The post What’s New with vSphere and vSAN in VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 appeared first on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog.
Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0
Announcing the availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0, bringing additional scalability, security and several key enhancements.
Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies 2nd Edition–Now Available
The Data Center Has Evolved — Has Your Infrastructure Kept Up? Maintaining an agile data center infrastructure tends to be a source of headaches for IT leaders and administrators. It doesn’t have to be. Modern enterprises are facing growing infrastructure challenges. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) evolves the way that compute, storage, and management are delivered and … Continued The post Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies 2nd Edition–Now Available appeared first on Virtual Blocks…Read More
Tech Zone Wrap-up: Everything About VMware vSAN 8 Update 1 and More
Catch up on the latest insights and updates on VMware vSAN 8 Update 1 and other exciting tech developments on Tech Zone.
vSAN Objects Viewer
When troubleshooting vSAN issues, we need to complete understanding of the vSAN environment. Today I will introduce a good tool “vSAN Objects Viewer” that quickly converts vSAN information from text to graphics, including the followings: vSAN cluster topology vSAN nodes information vSAN disk […]
