vsan
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vSphere 6.7
Upgrade Stretched VMware vSAN Cluster to vSphere 6.7 Update 1
In the home lab I am running a Two-Node Streched vSAN cluster using two physical nodes and the ESXi witness node appliance running on a third ESXi host outside of the cluster for differing fault domains for home lab learning,…
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VMware
Runecast Analyzer 2.0 Released with History and VMware PCI-DSS Scanning Features
In the realm of automating VMware vSphere best practices, scanning for configuration issues, and helping organizations running on top of VMware vSphere stay on top of compliance concerns – Runecast is killing it! With each new version of the Runcast…
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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…
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VMware Cloud on AWS
What is VMware Cloud on AWS?
One of the most exciting new offerings from VMware is certainly the VMware Cloud on AWS offering that allows customers to run VMware SDDC on top of AWS infrastructure. If you have heard about this new offering from VMware and…
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VMware
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 product for obvious reasons and following what they document as…
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vSAN
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. The HCI Bench utility is the “gold standard” if you…
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vSAN
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 all-flash clusters with deduplication enabled. This fit my environment in…
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Storage
Create ScaleIO Volume ESXi datastore
Recently, we took a look at deploying ScaleIO in a VMware vSphere 6 environment. With the 2.0.1.3 release, vSphere 6.5 is supported. In the previous post, we only looked at the process of deploying the ScaleIO environment including the SDC…
