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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 3 New Features
With the release of VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3, one of the exciting upgrades that come with the new vSphere release is an updated version of vSAN. VMware vSAN 6.7…
Configure Network I/O Control NIOC with vSAN vSphere Distributed Switch
Recently, in the home lab, I wanted to move to converged networking with vSphere Distributed Switch on my “production” vSAN cluster running my various home lab resources (nested, etc). Prior…
Troubleshooting vSAN Performance in Five Steps
Software-defined solutions such as software-defined networking and storage have revolutionized the world of virtualization. Abstracting these core areas of architecture away from the actual physical hardware allows robust features and…
Run Basic Network Speed Bandwidth Throughput Test Between ESXi Hosts
Running tests before putting ESXi hosts into production is a very good idea as you can often flush out problems before hosts go into production which is much easier to…
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…