Announcing Initial Availability of vSAN 8
Last month’s monumental announcement of vSAN 8 with vSAN Express Storage Architecture™ punctuated our commitment to always innovating to meet the ever-evolving needs of the HCI market. Today, we are excited to announce Initial Availability of vSAN 8 and vSAN Express Storage Architecture.
Cleaning up old vSAN File Services OVF files on vCenter Server
There was a question last week about the vSAN File Services OVF Files, the question was about the location where they were stored. I did some digging in the past, but I don’t think I ever shared this. The vSAN File Services OVF is stored on vCenter Server (VCSA) in a folder, for each version. […]
vSAN File Services fails to create file share with error Failed to create the VD…
Last week on our internal slack channel one of the field folks had a question. He was hitting a situation where vSAN File Services failed when creating a file share with the error “Failed to create the VDFS File System”. We went back and forth a bit and after a while I jumped on Zoom […]
HCI Mesh in vSAN
This lightboard session showcases how vSAN HCI Mesh combines multiple independent vSAN clusters for a native, cross-cluster architecture that disaggregates resources and enables the utilization of stranded capacity. For more information on vSAN HCI Mesh, visit: https://bit.ly/3UwR6uu
Cleaning up old vSAN File Services OVF files on vCenter Server
There was a question last week about the vSAN File Services OVF Files, the question was about the location where they were stored. I did some digging in the past, but I don’t think I ever shared this. The vSAN File Services OVF is stored […]
vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 What you need to know!
With VMware Explore in US, vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 are both announced. However, do note that not to get confused announcement is on the release but it’s not generally available. So you cannot download them till generally available. The general available date is to be 28th Oct as stated with all […]
Data Placement and Resilience in ESA
Tune in as VMware technical experts Pete Koehler and John Nicholson break down how vSAN Express Storage Architecture provides a new way to process data while delivering highly resilient storage. For further information on vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA), check out: […]
vSAN’s Approach to Resilient Data Storage, and How it Compares to Traditional St…
This video will help viewers better understand object storage as it relates to vSAN and how it compares to a Traditional Cluster File System powering a vSphere cluster. For further information on VMware vSAN Data Services, […]
VMware vSAN 8 for Cloud Service Providers
Learn what new changes are coming in VMware vSAN 8 for Cloud Service Providers and how these new capabilities will improve your storage infrastructure performance.
Data Placement and Resilience in ESA
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How to convert a standard cluster to a stretched cluster while expanding it!
On VMTN a question was asked about how you could convert a 5-node standard cluster to a stretched cluster. It is not documented in our regular documentation, probably as the process is pretty straightforward, so I figured I would write it down. When you create a stretched cluster you will […]
Recover a VCF vSAN Cluster from a power outage
I had a power outage, and my VCF was down. When I tried to power it on, all the vSAN Cluster was gone, and no VMs available. Only 2 of the 4 ESXi hosts cluster were configured correctly with the vSAN Cluster Datastore. So no vCenter, SDDC Manager, or NSX to power on the VCF. Login […]
VMware vSAN Technology Overview
Technical overview covering the features and benefits in the latest version of VMware vSAN.
VMware vSphere & vSAN 8 General Availability Release Date Revised
With VMware’s release of vSphere & vSAN 8.0 imminent, VMware have made an announcement to amend the timeframe to allow themselves more quality assurance time. Read on to see more about the VMware lifecycle and how you can prepare for vSphere & vSAN 8.0.
vSAN 8 Original Storage Architecture vs Express Storage Architecture differences
vSAN 8 Original Storage Architecture vs Express Storage Architecture differences. A detailed look at the differences between OSA and ESA
Multitenancy in vSAN
Many have questions as to the viability of vSAN in environments where the platform is serving multiple tenants. These multitenant environments are common with service providers, who are typically familiar with the capabilities of a three tier architecture using storage arrays. This document details how vSAN can be used in these multitenant environments.
Scalable, High-Performance Native Snapshots in the vSAN Express Storage Architecture
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Erasure Coding at the Performance of RAID-1 in the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA)
Learn about how the vSAN ESA delivers RAID-5/6 erasure coding at the performance of RAID-1 mirroring.
Comparing vSAN ESA to OSA
This gives a high level comparison between the vSAN ESA and vSAN OSA
