vSAN
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
