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Understanding the vSAN Witness Host – Traffic Tagging

Understanding the vSAN Witness Host – Traffic…

With 2 Node and Stretched Cluster vSAN, a vSAN Witness Host is used. This can be a physical vSphere host or a VMware provided virtual appliance. Using the vSAN Witness Appliance is easy, does not require any additional licensing, and has much of the configuration standardized (sizing, disks, tagged ports). A second VMkernel port (vmk1) The post Understanding the vSAN Witness Host – Traffic Tagging appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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Relentless Availability powered by vSAN Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS

Relentless Availability powered by vSAN…

Last March we publicly announced a preview of an upcoming feature being developed for the VMware Cloud on AWS Service; Stretched Clusters, and Multi-AZ SDDC Instances. Yesterday Emad Younis released an overview for this exciting new feature. Today I would like to explain the underlying technology behind this new type of VMC SDDC, but first, let’s explore The post Relentless Availability powered by vSAN Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS – Overview

Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS –…

VMware Cloud on AWS includes resiliency at different layers. We are all familiar with vSphere HA protecting against ESXi host failures. With VMware Cloud on AWS, ESXi hosts reside in an AWS availability zone and are protected by vSphere HA. What about protection for the availability zone the ESXi hosts reside in?

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vSAN Deduplication and Compression – VMARENA

vSAN Deduplication and Compression – VMARENA

Deduplication and compression are the two great space efficiency features on vSAN. Lear more about this features and understand how useful in virtual environments

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on-disk format version 6 on vSAN 6.7 – VMARENA

on-disk format version 6 on vSAN 6.7 – VMARENA

With vSAN 6.7 new on-disk format is available

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Slick HCI trick: VMware smooths off vSAN’s rough edges

Slick HCI trick: VMware smooths off vSAN’s…

“vSAN already dominates the HCI software market…”

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VMware Intros vSAN 6.7 Software-Defined Storage Software, But With Eye Toward Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

VMware Intros vSAN 6.7 Software-Defined Storage…

VMware vSAN 6.7 includes an HTML 5-based user interface, improved compatibility with cloud-native applications, and closer integration with vSphere and vCenter.

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Sample 2 Node vSAN Deployment Script

Sample 2 Node vSAN Deployment Script

A couple months back, I published a YouTube video of my deploying/setting up a 2 Node vSAN cluster with nothing but PowerCLI. It got a few views and several people…Read More

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vSAN Effective Capacity

vSAN Effective Capacity

https://kauteetech.github.io/vsancapacity/

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Performance Checklist now available for vSAN benchmarking

Performance Checklist now available for vSAN…

Hot on the heels of the vSAN 6.7 release, a new performance checklist for vSAN benchmarking has now been published on our StorageHub site. This is the result of a project that I started a few months back with my colleague, Paudie O’Riordan. The aim of this checklist is to get the best possible performance […] The post Performance Checklist now available for vSAN benchmarking appeared first on CormacHogan.com .

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Top 20 vSAN articles for April 2018

Top 20 vSAN articles for April 2018

Component metadata health check fails with invalid state error Best practices for vSAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers vSAN Build Recommendation Engine Health fails Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products “The ramdisk “vsantraces” is full” error reports in vSAN logging Replacing SSD disk on a vSAN cluster […] The post Top 20 vSAN articles for April 2018 appeared first on Support Insider .

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New vSAN 6.7 Demo Clips

New vSAN 6.7 Demo Clips

I was helping the team prepare some clips this week for a workshop we were doing in the office. Thought it would be a good idea to share it on YouTube for those who may be interested in the new workflow on the HTML5 Clarity UI for vSAN.

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KB for vSAN Support Insight

KB for vSAN Support Insight

vSAN Support Insight is a next-generation platform for analytics of health, configuration, and performance telemetry. Its purpose is to help vSAN users maintain reliable and consistent computing, storage and network environment. New KB’s have come out outlining how to work with vSAN Support Insight. vSAN Analytics for Skyline – How to locate vCenter UUID (51121) The The post KB for vSAN Support Insight appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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Quick Fix: vSAN Health Reports iSCSI Target Service Stopped

Quick Fix: vSAN Health Reports iSCSI Target…

A few weeks ago I wrote about using iSCSI as a backup repository target. While still running this POC in my environment I came across an error in the vSAN Health Checker stating the vSAN iSCSI target service was in a Failed state. Drilling down into the vSAN Health check tree I could see a Service Runtime status of stopped The post Quick Fix: vSAN Health Reports iSCSI Target Service Stopped appeared first on VIRTUALIZATION IS LIFE! .

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[Infographic] Why Customers Choose VMware vSAN

[Infographic] Why Customers Choose VMware vSAN

vSAN delivers data center simplification and lower CapEx

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vRealize Operations Migrate to vSAN Dashboard

vRealize Operations Migrate to vSAN Dashboard

https://bit.ly/2GRIBqM Ready to operationalize vSAN or already in the process? Maybe you are in a vSAN pilot? Either way, this dashboard allows you to easily compare vSAN and non-vSAN workloads to ensure your migration is meeting your goals for vSAN storage.

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vSAN Compatibility with Veeam Availability Suite to be Showcased at VeeamON 2018

vSAN Compatibility with Veeam Availability…

As businesses look to digitally transform and adapt to modern challenges, they are relying on VMware to build a digital foundation, or ubiquitous software infrastructure control plane, from edge to core to cloud. As a first step in their journey towards a true hybrid cloud, customers are leveraging vSAN, VMware’s vSphere-native storage solution, to The post vSAN Compatibility with Veeam Availability Suite to be Showcased at VeeamON 2018 appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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VMware vSAN at InteropITX 2018

VMware vSAN at InteropITX 2018

Are you planning to attend InteropITX? So is the vSAN team! This is a great opportunity for you to learn about the exciting capabilities that vSAN has to offer. Find us at InteropITX: THE VMWARE BOOTH #601: Stop by to talk to our vSAN expert and demo the product! Come learn about The post VMware vSAN at InteropITX 2018 appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 SDDC Update Summary – StorageIOblog

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 SDDC…

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 SDDC Update Summary for software defined data center data infrastructure cloud hybrid it virtual

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Adaptive Resync in vSAN 6.7

Adaptive Resync in vSAN 6.7

A key goal of vSAN is to deliver a reliable and consistent computing environment. One challenge to any storage system is making sure that when a device fails that the environment is brought back to full protection levels quickly. vSAN has some unique capabilities in that all free space is treated as “hot spare” capacity The post Adaptive Resync in vSAN 6.7 appeared first on Virtual Blocks .

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