Understanding the vSAN Witness Host
One of the more frequent questions answered by support shortly upon a customer creating a Stretched Cluster in VMware Cloud on AWS service for the first time is: What is this extra host in my cluster? That is the vSAN Witness Host. To understand why we need the vSAN Witness Host we need to take The post Understanding the vSAN Witness Host appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
VMware Introduces vSAN ReadyCare HCI Support System
Alongside VMware’s recently announced vSphere and vSAN version 6.7 was the introduction of vSAN ReadyCare, which is designed to support its HCI environments. The new service helps customers quickly resolve issues (or avoid them altogether) while maintaining performance and availability.
VMware Introduces vSAN ReadyCare HCI Support System
() Alongside VMware’s recently announced vSphere and vSAN version 6.7 was the introduction of vSAN ReadyCare, which is designed to support its HCI environments. The new service helps customers quickly resolve issues (or avoid them altogether) while maintaining performance and availability.
60 Minutes – vSAN says “Mai Kan Cheong”
I’m pretty sure I would be (very) rich if I had a dollar every time I had to answer (FUD’s) why we have a delay of 60 minutes before we repair a failed disk on vSAN.
Problem with VM on VSAN – Join this discussion in VSAN on #VMTN
Hi, I’ve got one, maybe two, VMs on my VSAN and apparently there is something wrong with them. Focus on the first one as I have exhausted my knowledge
How to simplify vSAN Support!
Last week I presented at the Tech Support Summit in Cork with Cormac. Our session was about the evolution of vSAN, where are we today but more importantly which directly will we be going. One thing that struck me when I discussed vSAN Support Insight, the solution we announced not to long ago, is that not too many people seemed to understand the benefit. When you have vSAN and you enable CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program) then you have a phone home solution for your vSphere and vSAN environment automatically. What this brings is fairly simple to explain: less frustration! Why? Well the support team will have, when you provide them your vCenter UUID, instant access to all of the metadata of your environment. What does that…Read More
vSAN Degraded Device Handling
Introduction While this blog article focuses more on availability, performance is certainly worth mentioning. A poorly performing application or platform can be the equivalent of being offline. For example, excessive latency (network, drive, etc.) can cause a database query to take much longer than normal. If an end-user expects query results in 30 seconds and The post vSAN Degraded Device Handling appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
VMware vSAN 6.7 Technical Overview
Technical overview of VMware vSAN 6.7
Got vSAN? Take this advanced Hands-on Lab
In this advanced vSAN lab, you will be challenged to troubleshoot performance and availability issues, scale-out a vSAN cluster, and much more!
Slacking Away on vSAN
Have been getting a lot of questions around slack space in recent times and how it affects sizing. Some competitors have taken advantage of the confusion and started classifying it as “overheads” to operate vSAN, and putting us down for it.
Use flash with vSAN, ESXi virtual flash caching and VMFS data stores
To support flash storage, VMware uses vSAN, ESXi virtual flash caching and enables storing Virtual Machine File System data stores on flash media.
vSAN Deployment Considerations
Now more than ever, vSAN deployments are quickly growing in number. There are many vSAN documents available on StorageHub with great content; from design guides to day 2 operations, but a common ask from the field relates to vSAN deployment considerations. While there are many areas we can explore, some of them vary based on The post vSAN Deployment Considerations appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
vSAN and VxRail Take Center Stage at Dell Technology World
In case you missed Dell Technology World the other week, it was clear that Dell EMC VxRail, the market-leading HCI appliance, and VMware vSAN, the market-leading HCI software, took center stage throughout the week. The 14,000 customers and industry people in attendance enjoyed a front row seat to the evolution from traditional storage to hyper-converged The post vSAN and VxRail Take Center Stage at Dell Technology World appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
5 Top Reasons to Choose HCI
Discover how VMware makes Hyper-Converged Infrastructure simple and effective from this tech brief.
Thoughts about upgrading to vSAN 6.7
Recently we have noticed about the new version of vSAN, vSAN 6.7. Anybody has installed/upgraded OK? I have a working solution with: vCSA Appliance
How To Configure Existing vSAN With New vCenter
This post is very useful for vCenter crashed and you are not able to recover it or any special cases we need new vCenter and we have to keep exiting vSAN Cluster .
vSAN Administration with RVC -Windows vCenter 6.5
This post explains how to do vSAN Administration from RVC Console , it is very useful for who all are using RVC with Windows vCenter .
Configure iSCSI target on vSAN 6 .7
Configure iSCSI target on vSAN 6 .7 will help to understand the initial level of requirement and how to start the initial configuration to support vSAN 6.7 new feature WFS
Understanding vSAN Encryption – KMS Server Accessibility
vSAN 6.6 introduced data at rest encryption as a new feature that provides another choice (in addition to VM Encryption introduced in vSphere 6.5) for customers to secure data in vSphere. Despite the fact that these technologies work a bit differently (per datastore for vSAN Encryption or per VM for VM Encryption) these technologies still The post Understanding vSAN Encryption – KMS Server Accessibility appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
Introducing vSAN ReadyCare
Due to increasing IT operational complexity and stagnant budgets, organizations depend on their vendors to provide timely, innovative support. As part of VMware’s commitment to world class support, VMware recently introduced vSAN ReadyCare, which is an overall description of the significant vSAN support investments VMware has made across three key areas: innovative technology, efficient The post Introducing vSAN ReadyCare appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
