vSAN Management Pack for vRealize Operations
vSAN Management Pack for vRealize Operations is embedded on vROps 6.6. The vSAN management pack is specifically designed to accelerate time to production with vSAN, optimize application performance for workloads running on vSAN and provide unified management for the Software … Continue reading →
Translating vSAN VM Object IDs (UUID to VM and VM to UUID)
I was working on one of my vSAN Clusters a few weeks back and I had noticed a bunch of vSAN Objects being listed under the “Other” category within the vSAN Virtual Objects Health view as shown in the screenshot below. I could not figure out what files or VMs these vSAN objects were actually […]
Understanding vSAN Rebuilds and Repairs: Establishing Foundational Concepts
vSAN is an object-based distributed storage system that uses physical storage devices on each ESXi host in a cluster to contribute to the storage system.
Using PowerCLI & vSAN Management API to list VMs w/Thick VM swap
Earlier this year, I had put together a Python script using the vSAN Management API to help customers easily identify Virtual Machines which have Thick VM swap while running on vSAN. You can find the full details in Duncan’s blog post here. The reason I had chosen Python over something like PowerCLI, which I frequently […]
Useful tools to troubleshoot Virtual SAN (vSAN)
During VMworld in Las Vegas, I attended at nice session on vSAN troubleshooting tips. There are some tools that help us to find a root of problem: esxcli RVC Health Check vSAN Observer vRealize Operations Manager vRealize Log Insight esxcli There are some commands as below examples: esxcli vsan network list – Verify which VMkernel adapters are used… Read More »
VMware vSAN 6.6 Witnesses, Components and Votes
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vSAN Adaptive Resync and capacity reporting improvements
With the release of vSAN 6.2 Patch 06, there are a few new features and bug fixes that you can take advantage of to simplify and automate operations. I am going to talk about two of those elements below: Adaptive Resync and Capacity Reporting improvements. Adaptive Resync: A new adaptive resync throttling mechanism has been The post vSAN Adaptive Resync and capacity reporting improvements appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
Part 2 – vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack Dashboard Overview
In my previous post, we discussed the design, architecture, installation and configuration of the federation MP. In the second part, I will share the dashboards available with this management… Click on the title to continue reading the post..
Celebrating 10,000 Businesses Powered by VMware vSAN
Companies like Uber, AirBnB, Amazon, Alibaba and Facebook have completely changed consumer expectations and created an on-demand economy where goods are purchased at the push of a button. The digital systems powering these major industry shifts must be reliable, secure, and scalable in order to keep up with the new expectations of our digital world. The post Celebrating 10,000 Businesses Powered by VMware vSAN appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
Get Started with vSAN 6.6 in This Hands-on Lab
https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2017/10/23/get-started-vsan-6-6-hands-lab/
VMware Welcomes the Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series
Lenovo and VMware are transforming the storage business together and the ThinkAgile VX Series makes it possible to modernize a data center with every server refresh. Lee Caswell talks about how this joint collaboration will bring value to customers at half the cost of an all-flash storage array.
Understanding vSAN Rebuilds and Repairs
Recently a customer shared a story with me about a routine patch upgrade that resulted in several production VMs becoming inaccessible. The only way to bring them back online was to get the host out of maintenance mode. This was very confusing for him because DRS safely migrated the VMs to other hosts so the The post Understanding vSAN Rebuilds and Repairs appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
vSAN Operations Guide: Component Repair and Rebuild
This video walks through the process of vSAN component rebuilds and demonstrates the immediate repair option.
vSAN Operations: Add a Host or Fault Domain for Maintenance
Preparing a host for maintenance is quite simple in a vSphere cluster. With vSphere DRS enabled, you click a host in the vSphere Web Client, select Maintenance Mode, and click Enter Maintenance Mode. vSphere automatically migrates running virtual machines off of the host and places the host in maintenance mode. This effectively removes access to The post vSAN Operations: Add a Host or Fault Domain for Maintenance appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
VMware Celebrates 10,000 vSAN Customers
Learn how 10,000 organizations are now leveraging the revolutionary possibilities and solving traditional IT challenges with a new IT/storage approach delivered by VMware vSAN.
Updating a vSAN Cluster using VUM
I wanted to shed some light on what some may think is a mystery. How do I update a vSAN cluster using VMware Update Manager (VUM)? The quick…Read More
Migrating vSAN vmkernel ports to a new subnet
After deploying a vSAN cluster, the need sometimes arises to make changes to its network configuration, such as migrating the vmkernel network of the cluster to a new subnet. This requirement may appear for example when changing the network in which the vSAN cluster is running, or even, in a more complex scenario such as […]
Global Customers Shift to HCI with vSAN and Hitachi
We are pleased to offer a guest post from one of our valued vSAN partners, Hitachi Vantara. This post highlights the joint work from our two companies and showcases customers deploying hyper-converged infrastructure powered by vSAN. By: Dinesh Singh, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager, Hitachi Vantara Since last year’s launch of the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform The post Global Customers Shift to HCI with vSAN and Hitachi appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
Guest OS space reuse on vSAN
This post came about after a brief discussion with my pal, Lee Dilworth. Although the outcome of this test has really nothing to do with vSAN, the behaviour was observed on certain Guest OS which were running on vSAN. I guess the first thing that needs to be made clear is that there is no […] The post Guest OS space reuse on vSAN appeared first on CormacHogan.com .
vSAN 6.6 Rebalance & Resync Operations
In this post I will delve a little bit into day 2 OPS here with vSAN. Suppose you have had a maintenance window for rebooting and patching h…Read More
