vSAN
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Configure VMware vSAN 7 Stretched Cluster
One of the coolest features in my opinion with VMware vSAN is the vSAN stretched cluster. The stretched cluster allows you to have an environment that is extremely resilient to failure and where you have all of your data on…
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VMware vSAN Home Lab 10 gig Network Switch Upgrade
Like any virtualized architecture, the network is an extremely integral part of VMware vSAN. With the software-defined architecture of vSAN, all storage activities take place across the network for the most part. If you are running an all-flash vSAN environment,…
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Upgrade VMware vSAN 6.7 U3 to vSAN 7.0
There are many great advantages of the new VMware vSAN 7 with VMware vSphere 7.0. I have been running vSAN 6.7 U3 in the home lab for quite a long while now. Once backup vendors started announcing their support for…
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vSAN NFS Share Configuration in VMware vSphere 7.0
VMware vSAN 7.0 has brought forward a powerful set of new features and capabilities that will take HCI in your environment to the next level. VMware vSAN 7.0 is the most capable vSAN to date and it contains really great…
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VMware vSAN 7.0 New Features and Capabilities
More great release details coming from the announcement of vSphere 7 is the announcement of VMware vSAN 7.0 which also brings about great new features and functionality compared to previous releases of the vSAN HCI stack. VMware leads the HCI…
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The Stretched Cluster Feature is Not Supported On This Cluster
In the last post covering how to Migrate 2-Node VMware vSAN to 3-node Configuration, I touched on an issue I ran into where I was not able to disable the stretched cluster configuration of a two-node cluster using the vSphere…
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Migrate 2-Node VMware vSAN to 3-node Configuration
One of the upgrades that I have had planned for the home lab environment has been to migrate my 2-node VMware vSAN configuration to a 3-node configuration. Since I wanted to add more compute strength and resources to my vSAN…
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Rebuild Failed vSAN ESXi Host
Just within the last couple of days, I had the USB device that one of my home lab ESXi servers was booting from become corrupt. I had noticed an issue the last time I had attempted to run VMware updates…
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How to Install VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN is arguably the most popular software-defined storage solution available in the enterprise datacenter today. While Microsoft has made great strides with Storage Spaces Direct, it is still a bit rough around the edges, especially from a management perspective. …
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Configure VMware vSAN iSCSI for Windows Server Failover Cluster WSFC
VMware vSAN has had some very interesting developments in the past several releases with many great new features and functionalities added. One of the very interesting use cases with VMware vSAN is using the storage for other things besides storing…
