stretched cluster
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vSAN
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
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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vSAN
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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vSAN
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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vSAN
Two-Node vSAN Performance Tip Disable Site Read Locality
When it comes to vSAN the solution performs extremely well from a performance standpoint by default. VMware has made many of the settings and tweaks built into the solution function automatically for the benefit of speed and performance. The great…
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vSAN
Replacing VMware vSAN Two-Node Witness Host Checklist
One of the things I love about VMware vSAN is the ease of which you can do things operationally and the resiliency and robustness of the platform to have changes in the infrastructure and still keep running your workloads. The…
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vSAN
Move VMware vSAN 6.7 Stretched Cluster to Different vCenter Server
In my home lab I have had several projects going on that have been slowly taking place over the past few weeks. One of those projects was getting my “prodution” vSphere vSAN cluster upgraded to vSphere 6.7 across the board…
