witness appliance

  • vSANHigh level view of the VMware vSAN stretched cluster

    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…

  • vSANTwo-Node-vSAN-Performance-Tip-Disable-Site-Read-Locality

    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…

  • vSANMessage-that-patch-is-available-for-critical-vSAN-issue-for-all-flash-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 all-flash clusters with deduplication enabled. This fit my environment in…

  • vSANA-look-at-the-configured-virtual-hardware-for-the-VMware-vSAN-Witness-Appliance

    Install and Configure VMware vSAN Witness Appliance in VMware Workstation

    Update 1.30.2018 – Password issues with the vSAN Witness Appliance on legacy VMware Workstation versions One of the really great features starting in VMware vSAN 6.1 was the introduction of the the new 2-node and stretched cluster implementations of vSAN.ย …