VMware VVol Testing with Dell EMC Unity VSA
Recently, I saw a post from Eric Siebert that got me to thinking again about VVols. Eric gives a good explanantion of why we haven’t seen this technology take off…
Runecast Analyzer 1.7 vSAN Support Visualization Improvements and New Web Plugins
When it comes to supporting, maintaining, and operationalizing a VMware vSphere environment, everything needs to be carried out in accordance with best practices. VMware is the expert of their own…
VMware Backup with Vembu BDR Suite v3.9 Virtual Appliance
Deploying VMware solutions via virtual appliances is a great way to quickly get up and running with a preconfigured environment from vendors. To coincide with the recent release of Vembu…
Automate Documenting Used IP Addresses on my Network
When you are running quite a few VMs in your home lab environment, it can get tricky to keep up with the IP address that are in use and which…
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…
Is Meltdown fixed in Intel Xeon D-2100 Processor?
The Intel Meltdown vulnerability and then the more general and broad vulnerability in Spectre have certainly been one of the most talked about hardware security vulnerabilities in modern history. The…
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…
What is HCI Bench VMware vSAN Performance Benchmark utility?
When it comes to benchmarking VMware vSAN, especially with vSphere 6.5 update 1 and higher, there is really one standard tool that is utilized to benchmark proof of concept environments.…
Update VMware vSAN Witness Appliance
I noted a warning on my home lab VMware vSAN environment noting a missing critical patch with vSAN and deduplication environments. The patch was referencing the VMware KB article for…
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…