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Tag: software defined storage

StarWind Virtual SAN Software HCI Performance Record
Software Defined Storage

StarWind Virtual SAN Software HCI Performance Record

The market is filled with many different HCI virtual SAN software solutions to choose from with many different vendors and flavors of HCI solutions with various software-defined storage technologies backing…

by Brandon LeeFebruary 28, 2020January 11, 2021
StarWind VSAN for vSphere Virtual Appliances
Storage

StarWind VSAN for vSphere Virtual Appliances

You may have been considering VMware vSAN for your ROBO or Edge environment, however, your budget constraints simply do not allow purchasing a supported configuration for use with a VMware…

by Brandon LeeNovember 15, 2019January 11, 2021
Simulate SAN Storage with FreeNAS 11.2
Storage

Simulate SAN Storage with FreeNAS 11.2

If you are like me, you are constantly labbing various storage solutions and connectivity from virtual hosts and the like in the home lab. Most likely, you don’t have a…

by Brandon LeeSeptember 16, 2019January 11, 2021
New vsantop vSAN Command-Line Troubleshooting Tool
vSAN

New vsantop vSAN Command-Line Troubleshooting Tool

Well, everyone is certainly pumped up after this year’s VMworld event with many great new announcements and features that are coming to VMware vSphere very soon. Just before VMworld however,…

by Brandon LeeAugust 30, 2019January 11, 2021
Increase VMware vSAN Space and Performance Add Disks to Disk Group
vSAN

Increase VMware vSAN Space and Performance Add Disks to Disk Group

Running VMware vSAN in the home lab environment rocks. It has allowed me to effectively have a great HCI solution running commodity hardware with the ability to scale storage as…

by Brandon LeeJune 18, 2019January 11, 2021
Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct Backups with Vembu BDR Suite
Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct Backups with Vembu BDR Suite

Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct represents the latest and greatest software-defined storage solution from Microsoft that can be used with Hyper-V for true software-defined storage backed virtual machines. We…

by Brandon LeeMarch 12, 2019January 11, 2021
Configure VMware vSAN Monitoring with vRealize Operations 7.0
vRealize Suite

Configure VMware vSAN Monitoring with vRealize Operations 7.0

VMware vRealize Operations 7.0 is a great upgrade to the vRealize Operations solution from VMware. VMware has made tremendous improvements across the board to the product and has positioned it…

by Brandon LeeNovember 1, 2018January 11, 2021
Configuring Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct S2D in VMware vSphere
Windows Server 2019

Configuring Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct S2D in VMware vSphere

Software defined storage today is one of the hottest and most desired technology solutions in the enterprise datacenter. Most organizations are looking very seriously at software defined storage solutions as…

by Brandon LeeOctober 8, 2018October 25, 2023
Replace or Change VMware vSAN Witness Host with vSphere 6.7 Appliance
vSAN

Replace or Change VMware vSAN Witness Host with vSphere 6.7 Appliance

VMware vSan is getting more and more powerful with each and every release. With the introduction of vSphere 6.7 and vSAN 6.7, the HTML5 UI has received more functionality, Windows…

by Brandon LeeJuly 9, 2018January 11, 2021
StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN
Computers

StarWind Two Node VMware Hyperconverged VSAN

If you have not heard about StartWind Virtual SAN, it is a highly scalable and powerful virtual SAN solution that allows for a two node hyperconverged configuration for multiple Hypervisor…

by Brandon LeeJuly 13, 2017January 11, 2021

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