vSAN

  • HCIBench – Speedtest for VMware vSAN storage

    If you work with VMware vSAN and are looking for a benchmarking tool for your vSAN datastore, the HCIbench tool is the de facto standard for testing out your vSAN storage performance. It uses test VMs to generate load on…

  • Configure vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture ESA

    The new VMware vSAN 8 Express Storage Architecture is one of the most revolutionary advancements in vSAN technology since vSAN 6.2 came along. The new vSAN Express Storage architecture ESA provides a radically new architecture allowing businesses to realize the…

  • Original Storage Architecture vs Express Storage Architecture

    vSAN 8 Original Storage Architecture vs Express Storage Architecture differences

    VMware vSAN 8 is revolutionary on many fronts and represents the most modern and technilogically advanced vSAN to date for running producton critical workloads. One of the new advancements with vSAN 8 is the new Express Storage Architecture. It is…

  • New Log Structured file system in vSAN 8

    VMware vSAN 8 – What’s New? Technical Deep Dive

    VMware vSAN represents one of the most significant improvements of VMware vSAN since it was introduced in 2014. The industry has evolved in storage and across the board from a technology perspective. With the hardware of today and the focus…

  • VMware vSAN direct high level overview of architecture

    VMware vSAN Direct configuration and requirements

    VMware continues to evolve the VMware vSAN solution, giving organizations even more storage options with their VMware vSAN configurations in a vSAN cluster. One of those options is the VMware vSAN direct capability as part of the vSAN data persistence…

  • High level view of the VMware vSAN stretched cluster

    vSAN Witness Appliance Deployment

    One of the powerful deployments of VMware vSAN is the vSAN stretched cluster configuration. With vSAN stretched cluster, the vSAN data nodes have a vSAN stretched cluster datastore between them, making your data highly available at both locations or fault…

  • vSAN File Service architecture overview

    vSAN File Share with vSAN File Service Configuration and Setup

    I am a huge fan of VMware vSAN. It is a rock-solid solution to run mission-critical workloads. I also use it to power my VMware home lab. However, one of the features you may not readily think about with VMware…

  • Maintenance mode exited and cluster data resynchronized

    Change IP ESXi for vSAN host with VDS

    I am doing a bit of network redesign in the home lab (a new post to come on that soon), for better manageability and security practices. With that being said, I had the need to move ESXi management IPs to…

  • Second site down and witness host down with the virtual machine still accessible

    vSAN Stretched Cluster Enhancements in vSAN 7.0 Update 3 – Simulating Failure!

    One of the really nice enhancements of the newest version of vSAN, found in vSphere 7.0 Update 3, has to do with vSAN stretched clusters. VMware vSAN stretched clusters are a configuration that I have blogged about in previous posts.…

  • Use file and block based persistent volumes in vSphere with Tanzu

    VMware vSAN 7 Update 3 New Features

    With the release of VMware vSphere 7 Update 3, this also means there is a new version of vSAN as well. VMware vSAN has been trailblazing in the world of HCI for several years now and with over 30,000 customers…