vmware vsan
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vSAN
Upgrading VMware vSphere vSAN 6.6 to 6.7
As we covered previously, there are certainly a number of great improvements contained in the vSphere 6.7 release in regards to VMware vSAN. VMware vSphere 6.7 in general is a vastly improved platform all across the board that brings even…
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vSAN
VMware vSAN Learning Resources
With the wealth of resources available on the Internet, we all have a ton of learning resources at our fingertips when taking a technology and pulling it apart to see how it works and learn how to administer and operationalize…
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vSAN
Configuring Veeam Virtual Appliance Mode for VMware vSAN
When backing up VMware vSAN, data protection solutions can still take advantage of VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection as they do backing up virtual machines from any type of VMware storage as it is storage agnostic. There are…
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vSAN
Selected host is an external witness for another vSAN Stretched cluster
As VHT readers have seen lately, I have been doing a lot of home lab work with VMware vSAN and thoroughly enjoying it. The advancements that have been made in vSAN 6.6 and patch levels have truly made vSAN a…
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vSAN
Configure HCI Bench for VMware vSAN Performance Testing
In the previous post, we took a look at what the HCI Bench utility is and how it is installed for testing VMware vSAN performance. It is the preferred tool for VMware vSAN performance testing and is at least the…
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vSAN
VMware vSAN Witness Host Not Found
In continuing to work with the 2-node VMware vSAN stretched cluster in the home lab, I ran into a little issue with the network showing as partitioned and the witness host showing it was in STANDALONE mode when I could…
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vSAN
Configure vSAN Error Disk with VSAN uuid failed to appear in CMMDS
In configuring a 2-node VMware vSAN cluster with a Witness host I ran into a strange issue that took a bit of head scratching and Googling to figure out. However, the solution was actually fairly simple. In attempting to configure…
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vSAN
Install and Configure VMware vSAN Witness Appliance in VMware Workstation
Update 1.30.2018 – Password issues with the vSAN Witness Appliance on legacy VMware Workstation versions One of the really great features starting in VMware vSAN 6.1 was the introduction of the the new 2-node and stretched cluster implementations of vSAN. …
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Software Defined Storage
Install ScaleIO 2.0 in VMware vSphere 6
In talking about software defined storage, most are familiar with VMware vSAN. However, there is another extremely powerful SDS solution available for free from EMC called StorageIO. StorageIO is free in the context of a lab or development environment. Otherwise…
