vSAN 6.6 RVC Guide Part 1 – Basic Configuration
The “vSAN 6.6 RVC Guide” series explains how to manage your VMware Virtual SAN environment with the Ruby vSphere Console. RVC is an interactive command line tool to control and automate your platform. If you are new to RVC, make sure … Read more »
vSAN 6.6: Manual vs Automatic Disk Claim Mode
Advertise here with BSA I received this question on Manual vs Automatic disk claim mode in vSAN 6.6. Someone upgraded a cluster from 6.2 to 6.6 and wanted to add a second cluster. They noticed that during the creation of the new cluster there was no option to select “automatic vs manual”. I think a blog post will be published […] ” vSAN 6.6: Manual vs Automatic Disk Claim Mode ” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com . Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.
What is VMware vSAN Caching Tier?
VMware vSAN as an Hyperconverged infrastructure solution (HCI) has some basic building blocks. One of them is a vSAN Disk group which was detailed in one of our previous posts. As this technology is still very young and many folks seek an information, I thought that it is a good idea to explain this. So […] Read the full post What is VMware vSAN Caching Tier? at ESX Virtualization .
Learn basic to advance vSAN in 80 minutes – Anything Virtual and Cloudy
Purpose: If you are working in Virtualization and Cloud space, then you must have heard about Software Defined Storage (SDS). It is part of Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) (a term coined by VMware). Since VMware started the SDDC journey and is a pioneer in this technology, so, today I am going to cover VMware solution in…Read More
vSAN Storage Policy Assigned to vSphere Replication Replicas
VMware vSphere Replication (VR) is a replication feature that is included with vSphere Essentials Plus Kit and higher editions of vSphere. Replication is configured on a per-VM basis with RPOs as low as five minutes. It is compatible with vSAN, as well as, other datastore types such as VMFS, NFS, and vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVols). VR is often used with VMware Site Recovery Manager to provide a tightly-integrated, reliable, automated disaster recovery solution.
vSAN and Predictive DRS, Network-Aware DRS and Proactive HA
vSphere 6.5 saw the release of a number of improvements in the areas of DRS. I won’t detail all of the improvements here, since my colleague Brian Graf has done a great job of describing the features in a number of different blog posts. He discussed Network-Aware DRS here, Predictive DRS here and Proactive HA […] The post vSAN and Predictive DRS, Network-Aware DRS and Proactive HA appeared first on CormacHogan.com .
vSAN 6.6 Configuration Assist Makes Setup & Updating Easier
Whether setting up vSAN using Easy Install, manually, or through the vSphere Web Client, once the first host is setup, there are some necessary tasks to complete the configuration.
vSAN HCL Warning
A few weeks ago I talked about Identifying your controllers and installing the correct firmware and drivers for a vSAN environment. Even though you follow my recommendations vSAN Health Check still showing a warning for the vSAN cache tier controllers. Don’t be afraid, there’s a bug that prevents Health Check to correctly identify PCIE/NVMe controllers and so the alarm is triggered, even with the certified driver and firmware installed. It took me some time to find this information, so I…Read More
Bootstrap the VCSA onto vSAN 6.6 with Easy Install
If vSAN is configured by vCenter, how do you deploy vCenter on top of vSAN? Sounds a bit like a chicken and egg scenario, huh? vSAN is part of a cluster configuration in vSphere. To create a cluster, a datacenter must first be present, and that must be part of a vCenter instance. At least that’s how we configure it via the vSphere Web Client.
New Technical White Paper – VMware vSAN Network Design
vSAN is a hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage solution for the software-defined data center. It is the first policy-driven storage product designed for VMware vSphere environments that simplifies and streamlines storage provisioning and management. vSAN is a distributed, shared storage solution that enables the rapid provisioning of storage within VMware vCenter Server as part of virtual machine creation and deployment operations. vSAN requires a correctly configured network for…Read More
Announcing the All New vSAN Networking Guide
I’m delighted to announce a brand new vSAN Networking Guide. This is now published on our storagehub site. This new updated guide covers everything from support statements, the basics of NIC teaming on the vSAN network, including what options are available and the pros and cons of each approach, as well as supported topologies for standard deployments, 2-node deployments and stretched clusters.
Toshiba Announces VMware vSAN Certification for PX05S Enterprise SAS SSDs
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC), a committed technology leader, today announces that its PX05S 12Gbit/s2 SAS SSD family has earned VMware vSAN 6.6 certification, furthering options for hyper-converged infrastructure virtual environments.
vSAN 6.6 vMotion Basic Unicast Connectivity Health Check Fails
After upgrading my lab to vSAN 6.6, I noticed that the newly introduced vMotion health check (vSAN Cluster > Monitor > vSAN > Health > Network) showed up as failed for the following checks: Failed – vMotion: Basic (unicast) connectivity … Read more »
vSAN 6.6 Stretched Clusters – Capacity Considerations when using Local Protection or Site Affinity
vSAN’s ability to provide a fully active-active, stretched cluster has already been proven. vSAN 6.6 takes this a step further, allowing for storage redundancy within a site AND across sites at the same time.
vSAN 6.6 Online Health Check and Performance Service Improvements
a5f20f02-4f78-4d58-bdef-8958c371115bThe Native VSAN health UI was introduced with VSAN 6.1. This was an external plugin that could run a number of basics checks on a cluster. With vSAN 6.2 this feature and functionality became a core art of the product in the form of the Health UI which can be found within the Monitor Tab, under VSAN and Health. Dozens of proactive configuration and state checks are made. The list of checks has expanded in new versions of vSAN to help proactively alert users to potential risks in their environment.
vSpeaking Podcast Episode 41: vSAN 6.6 Part 2
Last week VMware announced the launch of vSAN 6.6. Even more so than previous releases, this is a feature-packed release with advanced enterprise features that make vSAN faster, more cost effective and more secure than ever before. This week on the vSpeaking Podcast we bring in Peter Koehler for Part 2 of our vSAN 6.6 coverage and walk us through some of the details of this feature packed release.
Disk format change going from 6.x to vSAN 6.6?
Internally I received a comment around the upgrade to 6.6 and the disk format version change. When you upgrade to 6.6 also the version of disk changes, it goes to version 5. In the past with these on-disk format changes a data move was needed and the whole disk group would be reformat. When going from vSAN 6.2 (vSphere 6.0 U2 that is!) to vSAN 6.6 there is no data move needed. The update is simply a metadata update, and on the average cluster will take less than 20 minutes.
VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO
In this post, we’ll explore a new vSAN 6.6 feature allowing you to deploy vSAN via VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) easily to greenfield environments, without the need to allocate a storage space for the VCSA on some temporary local datastore. Note that nested environments are not supported for production environments, but allows a very good learning and homelabbing. So this post will walk you through the VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO.
VMware vSAN 6.6 Released – Configuration DEMO – http://www.vladan.fr
VMware has officially released vSAN 6.6 so you can download your copy and evaluate the product. This post will detail our small lab configuration, which is a 2-Node vSAN cluster with a Witness running on the third host. For the purpose of this post, I have decommissioned my old environment running vSAN 6.5 (vMotioned VMs […] Read the full post VMware vSAN 6.6 Released – Configuration DEMO at ESX Virtualization .
