What does the future of HCI 2.0 look like?
As HCI grows in maturity, many are now anticipating what the future of next generation HCI 2.0 would look like. Many are putting trying to define, what and how it should look like, but I have a different viewpoint on this and it involves a “Full Stack HCI” and looking at HCI to play a larger […]
Top 20 articles for vSAN, May 2020
“There is no more space for virtual disk .vmdk” error when starting vSAN VM FAQ: Support statement for 512e and 4K Native drives for VMware vSphere and vSAN vSAN Health Service – Data Health ? vSAN Object Health How to manually remove and recreate a vSAN disk […]
4 Node VSAN Cluster: RAID-1 vs RAID-5
In the past few years, I have encountered a specific scenario several times concerning different customers who are looking to reduce VSAN storage consumption in a 4 node cluster by migrating VMs to use a RAID-5 (Erasure Enclosure) policy from the RAID-1 (Mirror) policy. Here is a brief […]
VMware vSAN Reduces Complexity, Cost & Improves Performance
In this #vSANFan customer story, see how Xavier University of Louisiana turned to VMware Cloud Foundation powered by VMware vSAN to simplify and automate operations.
Hardware compatibility checks with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
This video demonstrates the hardware compatibility checks available in vSphere Lifecycle Manager vLCM.
vSAN Disk Fault Injection
Remote Proof of Concept testing seems to be gaining in popularity recently. The major difference in on-site vs remote testing is the access to HW to test drive unplug or physical network failure. What I use in case of disk failure testing in a vSAN cluster is vSAN Disk Fault […]
vSAN performance benchmarking
In this article, I will explain briefly on performance benchmarking considerations, factors affecting performance, and some of the best practices.
HomeLab Stage XXXVIII: Dell VRTX – VCDX #181 Marc Huppert
I completed the SD-WAN implementation with the Velocloud in my last step: Stage XXXVII: Velocloud. Now back to the server side. Last year I wanted to invest into new servers inside my HomeLab. I really wanted an environment with vSAN… Read More Stage XXXVIII: Dell VRTX
VxRail / vSAN Capacity Math Made Easy
It feels like I cannot go a week without being asked the question of, “What is my real capacity on… [Continue reading]
Useful Ruby Shell vSAN Commands
Lately, I have had people messaging asking to help them troubleshoot their environment. Everything from random performance impacts to my … [Continue reading]
How to remove a VxRail 4.7 Node from it’s Cluster
There are instances where you may need to remove a node from your VxRail cluster. One instance may be moving … [Continue reading]
How to RASR Reset VxRail 4.7 Node
This is a step by step process for factory reset IE RASR Reset of a DellEMC VxRail 4.7 host.
vSAN 7.0 webinars, sign up!
Advertise here with BSA There’s a series of webcasts (EMEA timezone, but available for replay as well!) scheduled on the topic of vSAN 7 and VMware Cloud Foundation 4. Topics include things like File Services, Cloud Native Apps, Networking and Security etc. I will present the “vSAN 7.0 What’s […]
How to change VxRail w/ vSAN 6.7 U3 storage policy for entire VM or each object …
I was recently asked for a quick way to edit all and individual objects in vSAN 6.7 U3. I thought… […]
GSS Webinar: vSAN Performance Deep Dive
This session focuses on Four Topics : • The architecture of vSAN – Basic Architecture of vSAN to understand vsan performance metrics . • How to manage expectations – Influencing factors , Considerations and Guidance for Customers • Troubleshoot performance – A framework for diagnosis and mitigation
Build a super cheap VMware HCI solution for under $6,000!
This video shows you how you can build a supported VMware vSAN HCI solution on the cheap! Be it for small businesses, retail, edge clusters or even your very own home lab. Built upon SuperMicro E200-8D Mini Servers, this may just be what you are looking for. VMware has also published a …Read More
Learn about vSAN Stretched Cluster Resilience in this Interactive Infographic
The vSAN Stretched Cluster feature was introduced in vSAN 6.1. Since then, this feature has matured nicely over the past several vSAN releases with thousands of stretched cluster configurations deployed worldwide. Now vSAN stretched clusters provide resilience to a variety of failure scenarios …Read More
vSAN File Services: Seeing an imbalance between protocol stack containers and FS…
Last week I had this question around vSAN File Services and an imbalance between protocol stack containers and FS VMs. I personally had witnessed the same thing and wasn’t even sure how to solve the problem or if vSAN File Services would somehow …Read More
PowerCLI 12 for vSAN
VMware PowerCLI is a command-line scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell. It provides an array of cmdlets to efficiently automate repetitive tasks, create reports as well as be used as a guardrail to ascertain possible outcomes of administrative operations. PowerCLI is the preferred and …Read More
#vSphere7 Launch TweetChat with #vSAN7 & #CloudFoundation4
Our last #vSphereChat on Twitter was truly something special — not only did we accomplish hosting a tweet chat across THREE different VMware Twitter accounts, but also, we discussed our latest launches – #vSphere7, #vSAN7 and #CloudFoundation4. The transcript is below. There will be another …Read More
