VMware Runs on vSAN – in a Big Way!
vSAN has had tremendous customer adoption since its release, and of course people are often quite interested to hear about environments that have had great success and done deployments at a very large scale. What about VMware itself? Do we use vSAN for mission critical environments? Absolutely. One of the larger deployments of vSAN into The post VMware Runs on vSAN – in a Big Way! appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
How to configure Dell PERC H730 mini RAID Cards for VMware VSAN
I was facing some issue with VSAN cluster and after troubleshooting with the help of VMWare we found that our Dell PERC H730 mini RAID card is not in HBA pass-through mode. It was in RAID Mode and …Read More
vSAN Encryption, vSphere Replication and SRM – It just works !
I’ve seen a few questions around this and I wanted to put together a quick post to put them to rest. Long story short, vSphere Replication and SRM work together the same with vSAN Encryption turned on as they do with it turned off. The reason for this is that vSAN encryption happens at the last/lowest layer or stage of the I/O path, . . .
vSAN ReadyNodeâ„¢ Sizer: Size and Deploy vSAN for the workload of your choice
The new All Flash vSAN ReadyNodeâ„¢ Sizer is now available and is accessible here: https://vsansizer.vmware.com/
VMware’s VM encryption implementation guide
In this technical white paper, you will learn how to use VM Encryption from vSphere 6.5 along with Veeam® encryption to make sure your virtual machines and backups are encrypted.
What are the different vSAN Stretched Cluster configuration options?
VMware increased flexibility in vSAN 6.6 with the addition of new stretched cluster configuration options. What are these options, and how do they improve availability?
vSAN Operations Guide: Converting a Hybrid to All-Flash vSAN Cluster
This video demonstrates the process for converting a hybrid to an all-flash vSAN cluster.
vSAN Operations Guide: Migrating from hybrid to all-flash vSAN
This video demonstrates the process for migrating a hybrid vSAN cluster to an all-flash vSAN cluster.
New vSAN 6.6.1 upgrade guide now available
With the release of vSAN 6.6.1 or vSphere 6.5 U1 we have put together a new upgrade document to assist you with upgrading to vSAN 6.6.1 from previous releases. The guide provides prescriptive guidance and clarity on vSAN upgrade steps. it also includes step by step guide for new vSAN and vSphere Update Manager integrations. The post New vSAN 6.6.1 upgrade guide now available appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
vSAN 6.6.1 Performance Diagnostics Demo
Advertise here with BSA I was playing in my lab this morning and figured I would record a demo of a new feature which is part of vSAN 6.6.1. The Performance Diagnostics feature is aimed to help those running benchmarks to optimize their benchmarks, or optimize their vSAN configuration to reach their expected goals. Note that it is a […] ” vSAN 6.6.1 Performance Diagnostics Demo ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.
View 7.1 and vSAN 6.6.1 interop – nice fix
Last week, I was rolling out Horizon View v7.1 on my new vSAN 6.6.1 all-flash configuration in the lab. Now, one of the pet peeves a few of us have had with this configuration was that a warning was always reported around read cache reservations on all-flash vSAN. Of course, read cache is irrelevant to […] The post View 7.1 and vSAN 6.6.1 interop – nice fix appeared first on CormacHogan.com .
World’s First Close Look at Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X Series – PCIe NVMe arrives with 375GB of 3D XPoint!
This SSD is on brief and temporary loan from Intel, and it appears to be an engineering sample, in the 375GB size that is planned for product launch. This loaner was made with no formal expectations or stipulations, just a brief chance to TinkerTry this datacenter technology in my own VMware vSphere home lab. Remember this site’s tagline – TinkerTry IT @ home. Efficient virtualization, storage, backup, and more.Completely New Type of Storage Such an opportunity doesn’t come along often. If…Read More
vSpeaking Podcast Episode 54: vSAN Stretched Cluster
One of the most distinguishing features of VMware vSAN is the availability of stretched cluster deployment. Stretched clusters allow vSAN customers to configure two geographically located sites, while synchronously replicating data between the two sites. This provides high availability and protection against a single site failure. Not a new concept with traditional storage…. or is The post vSpeaking Podcast Episode 54: vSAN Stretched Cluster appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
NVMe Wont Replace Flash By Itself They Compliment Each Other
NVMe is the interface and protocol for accessing NVM based storage. NVMe wont replace NVM based flash by itself (at least yet) as they compliment each other.
How big should my vSAN or vSphere cluster be? – Virtual Ramblings
This is a topic that comes up quite a bit. A lot has been written previously about how big should your vSphere clusters be and Duncan’s musings on this topic are still very valid. It generally starts with: “I have 1PB in my storage frame today, can I build a 1PB vSAN cluster?” The short response …Read More
Getting More Out of vSAN Webcast
Have vSAN, but want to know more about monitoring health & performance? Join experts Jeff Hunter & Peter Koehler for demos, Q&A, & more in our 8/17 webcast. RSVP here.
Some nice new features in vSAN 6.6.1
For those of you who may have missed it, vSphere 6.5U1 was released very recently. This new release of vSphere also brought along a new release of vSAN, version 6.6.1. Included in this release are a few really nice features that did not make it into the major 6.6 release of vSAN that we had […] The post Some nice new features in vSAN 6.6.1 appeared first on CormacHogan.com .
Oracle on vSAN HCI – VMworld 2017
Interested to find out how VMware HCI vSAN solution provides high availability, workload balancing, seamless site maintenance, stability, resilience, performance and cost effective hardware required to meet critical business SLA’s for running mission critical workloads? Come attend our session at VMworld 2017 Las Vegas on Wednesday, Aug 30, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. where Sudhir […] The post Oracle on vSAN HCI – VMworld 2017 appeared first on Virtualize Business Critical Applications .
Silence vSAN Health Checks
With the release of vSAN 6.6 the feature to silence vSAN Health Checks was added. Very cool for all the homelab users, where the hardware is not really 100% on the compatibility list. With the inte…Read More
vSAN Performance Diagnostics
I am excited to announce that launch of vSAN Performance diagnostics. This feature will enable faster performance troubleshooting and when burning in a cluster with performance tests to understand how you can increase the IOPS or lower the storage latency and what is your bottleneck within the host. Performance diagnostics analyzes previously executed benchmarks. It The post vSAN Performance Diagnostics appeared first on Virtual Blocks .
