vSAN
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Fix vSAN Build Recommendation Alarm vSAN Release Catalog Up-to-Date
For those of you running VMware vSAN environments, have you seen a pesky error on your vSAN cluster referencing a vSAN Build Recommendation Alarm vSAN Release Catalog Up-to-Date? I have seen this a few times before in the home lab…
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Force Delete vSAN Datastore from ESXi Host
VMware vSAN provides an incredible technology that allows combining local storage from multiple ESXi hosts to form logical storage for both virtual machines and modern technologies such as containers. With VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2, VMware has continued to push…
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Upgrade to VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 Step-by-step
With the release of VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2, many great new features are contained in the VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 release. You can take a look at my post here to see the new features offered by the…
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VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 Top New Features
With the update to vSphere 7.0 Update 2, one of the great new updates contained in this release is vSAN 7.0 Update 2. The new vSAN 7.0 Update 2 release contains a long list of new enhancements and features that…
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Change from vSAN Deduplication and Compression to Compression Only?
VMware vSAN 7U1 provides many options for managing space in the environment. Up until the release of VMware vSAN 7U1, for space efficiency, you only had the option for compression and deduplication. New with vSAN 7U1 there is a new…
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vSAN Daemon Liveness Check Failed – vSAN 7
***UPDATE*** Fix is detailed in the VMware KB below. One of the great things about running the home lab is you get to triage issues just like you would see in production. I came across a new issue for me…
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What is VMware vSAN HCI Mesh?
If you have used VMware vSAN, you would probably agree it is one of the coolest storage technologies in the enterprise. It brings a tremendous amount of flexibility, scalability, performance, manageability, and many other benefits to your enterprise data center.…
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VMware vSAN 7 Update 1 Features and Improvements
Yesterday, VMware made some huge announcements as related to the next release of their flagship products across the board. This included vSphere 7 Update 1, vSAN 7 Update 1, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.1, vSphere 7 with Tanzu, and Tanzu…
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VMware LACP Load Balancing Mode in vSAN
When it comes to VMware vSAN and any other hyperconverged infrastructure, the network is vitally important. I have been doing some reworking of the home lab vSAN environment with the upgrade of my 10 gig network switch. I have been…
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VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster Failover
If you are like me, what is the purpose of spinning up a stretched cluster in the home lab without being able to intentionally break things (queue the Tim Allen grunt). I really like doing this as it helps to…
