vSAN
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Two-Node vSAN Performance Tip Disable Site Read Locality
When it comes to vSAN the solution performs extremely well from a performance standpoint by default. VMware has made many of the settings and tweaks built into the solution function automatically for the benefit of speed and performance. The great…
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New vsantop vSAN Command-Line Troubleshooting Tool
Well, everyone is certainly pumped up after this year’s VMworld event with many great new announcements and features that are coming to VMware vSphere very soon. Just before VMworld however, VMware released vSphere 6.7 Update 3, including vSAN 6.7 Update…
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Replacing VMware vSAN Two-Node Witness Host Checklist
One of the things I love about VMware vSAN is the ease of which you can do things operationally and the resiliency and robustness of the platform to have changes in the infrastructure and still keep running your workloads. The…
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VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3 New Features
With the release of VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3, one of the exciting upgrades that come with the new vSphere release is an updated version of vSAN. VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3 brings great new features to the table that…
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Increase VMware vSAN Space and Performance Add Disks to Disk Group
Running VMware vSAN in the home lab environment rocks. It has allowed me to effectively have a great HCI solution running commodity hardware with the ability to scale storage as needed. I have been running off a pair of NVMe…
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Configure Network I/O Control NIOC with vSAN vSphere Distributed Switch
Recently, in the home lab, I wanted to move to converged networking with vSphere Distributed Switch on my “production” vSAN cluster running my various home lab resources (nested, etc). Prior to this, I was running two vSphere Standard Switches on…
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Troubleshooting vSAN Performance in Five Steps
Software-defined solutions such as software-defined networking and storage have revolutionized the world of virtualization. Abstracting these core areas of architecture away from the actual physical hardware allows robust features and agility that simply can’t be achieved with a hardware-only solution.…
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Replacing VMware vSAN Cache Disk and Resyncing vSAN Objects
In the previous post, VMware vSAN Home Lab Hardware Failure and Resiliency, I covered my first hardware failure in my vSAN home lab environment. The environment has been up and running now for around a year on an all flash,…
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VMware vSAN Home Lab Hardware Failure and Resiliency
Lab Gopher is a great tool to find home lab hardware
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VMware vSAN Beta Native Data Protection Feature with NextGen Snapshots
An exciting new feature that VMware has progressively been releasing information on is the VMware vSAN Beta Native Data Protection feature with nextgen snapshots. This has been shed light on at VMWorld 2018 Las Vegas and now at VMWorld 2018 Barcelona. …
