Capacity Overview in vSAN 6.7 U3
Advertise here with BSA I just wanted to do a short post before the weekend, in vSAN 6.7 U3 there’s a great capacity overview screen. It shows a couple of things, first of all it provides a simple bar that shows “data written”, “reserved space” and “free space”. The second section provides you the ability to figure out what […]
Can you move a vSAN Stretched Cluster to a different vCenter Server?
I noticed a question today on one of our internal social platforms, the question was if you can move a vSAN Stretched Cluster to a different vCenter Server. I can be short, I tested it and the answ…
vSAN 6.7 U3 New Advanced Options
Today’s blog post highlights two new Advanced Option in vSAN 6.7 U3. The first of these is Large Cluster Support. Today, in vSAN 6.7 U3, we are now able to configure support for large vSAN clusters (i.e. clusters that are over 32 nodes in size) with a single Advanced Option. In the past, you would have needed to go to each host in the cluster and make various advanced setting changes on a host by host basis such as TcpipHeapMax. Being able to set a single cluster wide Advanced Option does…Read More
Build a Better Infrastructure with Hyperconverged Infrastructure Powered by vSAN
Learn about the HCI market and why VMware is once again a Leader in the latest Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
Top 20 articles for vSAN, July2019
Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products Thick-provisioned VMs on vSAN detected on vSAN-health check “Unexpected VMware Update Manager (VUM) baseline creation failure” error in vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health Virtual Machines running on VMware vSAN 6.6 and later report guest data consistency concerns following a disk extend operation “Host cannot communicate The post Top 20 articles for vSAN, July2019 appeared first on VMware Support Insider.
#vSANChat: Getting Started with vSAN
VMware pros Jase McCarty (Technical Marketer) and Max Abelardo (HCI Systems Engineer), joined us for the “Getting Started with vSAN” Chat last month! Catch up on their expert advice below and learn more in our Hands-on Lab on Sept 12! Register here: http://bit.ly/2MzkxfK Q1: Can you give us a quick elevator pitch about the latest The post #vSANChat: Getting Started with vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
Tech Preview Announcement: Project Magna for vSAN Continuous Optimization
Here at VMworld 2019 (San Francisco, CA), we are very excited to share the first previews into Project Magna’s adaptive optimization and self-tuning engine. This was first mentioned last year by VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger, where he envisioned the true AI/ML ‘Self-Driving Data Center’. Modern day…Read More
Introducing Project Magna – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for vSphere self-driving operations
At VMworld 2018, Pat Gelsinger made reference to a project that was looking to use Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to create self driving operations for the vSphere stack. At VMworld 2019 last week, we were given a tech preview of the first iteration of this effort, called Project Magna. There were a number of VMworld break-out sessions dedicated to this effort, and I will reference them near the end of this post. However, this first tech preview is focused solely on…Read More
Tech Preview Announcement: vSAN Performance Optimization Using AI/ML (Project Magna)
Author: Adam Hawley The vSAN team is excited about the chance to present a technical preview* of Project Magna for vSAN at VMworld as the start of a major commitment from VMware to leverage AI/ML technology to deliver the Self-Driving Data Center. vSAN is at the heart of HCI offerings from VMware. It is The post Tech Preview Announcement: vSAN Performance Optimization Using AI/ML (Project Magna) appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
Cool fling: vSAN Performance Monitor
Advertise here with BSA The vSAN team has just published a cool fling, the vSAN Performance Monitor. This performance monitor allows you to monitor multiple clusters at once, or as the team describes it: The vSAN performance monitor is a monitoring and visualization tool based on vSAN Performance metrics. It will collect vSAN Performance and other metrics periodically from […] The post Cool fling: vSAN Performance Monitor appeared first on Yellow Bricks.
vSAN Cluster Remediation Settings
This post comes from a guest blogger, Stijn Depril, @sdepril on Twitter. He is a VMware Senior Specialist SE for HCI that covers the BeNeLux region of EMEA. As you might imagine, he spends quite a bit of time working with our vSAN customers in this area. Thank you, Stijn, for taking a break from your The post vSAN Cluster Remediation Settings appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
vSAN 6.7 U3 – WSFC with Shared Disks & SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations
In vSAN 6.7 we introduced Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) support when using vSAN iSCSI Service. This support is for physical or virtual WSFC nodes. This feature made it very easy for customers who needed block devices for WSFC clusters that use shared disks. Customers that moved much of their infrastructure to vSAN, could still The post vSAN 6.7 U3 – WSFC with Shared Disks & SCSI-3 Persistent Reservations appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
Modernized storage with vSAN and vVols vs. traditional storage – the simplicity principle
I’ve always been a fan of minimalism and when I want to explain something to myself or to someone else, I would rather start from finding a single word or expression summarizing all the information related. If I had to use only one word to describe what are the benefits when transitioning from traditional to The post Modernized storage with vSAN and vVols vs. traditional storage – the simplicity principle appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
#StorageMinute – Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSAN
Welcome to the #StorageMinute series where we deliver key topics via bite-size content. In this edition, we look at how vSAN is an ideal platform for Microsoft SQL Server. While applications are the very reason why a data center exists in the first place, the platform that makes up that data center plays a key The post #StorageMinute – Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
SQL on vSAN | VMware vSAN | #StorageMinute
In this edition, we look at how vSAN is an ideal platform for Microsoft SQL Server. While applications are the very reason why a data center exists in the first place, the platform that makes up that data center plays a key part in meeting the needs of business-critical applications like SQL Server.
VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 is Generally Available
Download vSAN 6.7 U3 VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3 (U3) is generally available to download! vSAN 6.7 U3 delivers container-ready infrastructure through Cloud Native Storage (CNS) to support agile, next-gen application development; enhancements to management for consistent operations across hybrid clouds; under-the-hood performance improvements; and a new vSAN Enterprise Plus edition, which includes vRealize Operations to enable self-driving operations, intelligent remediation, The post VMware vSAN…Read More
How To Configure VMware vSAN iSCSI Target Service On vSphere 6.7
How to configure VMware vSAN iSCSI Target Service on vSphere 6.7 and present vSAN Storage iSCSI to a server as a Hard Disk, this is a step-by-step guide
vSpeaking Podcast Ep 126: vSAN 6.7 Update 3
This week VMware announced the upcoming release of the industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure software, VMware vSAN. vSAN 6.7 Update 3 primarily focusses on unified management, intelligent operations and enhanced performance. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Pete Koehler to walk us through the details of this new release. Links Mentioned What’s New in The post vSpeaking Podcast Ep 126: vSAN 6.7 Update 3 appeared first on Virtual Blocks.
#StorageMinute: Why vSAN for Disaster Recovery?
VMware vCenter Server™, vSphere, and vSAN collectively create the best platform for running and managing virtual machine workloads requiring predictable performance and rapid recovery in the event of a disaster. The integration of vSAN with vSphere simplifies administration through storage policy-based management. Learn more on Storage Minute!
VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3
This presentation showcases the new features and enhancements that VMware is introducing in vSAN 6.7 Update 3
