VMware vSphere keeps evolving. With every new release of VMware vSphere, there is a new VM hardware version introduced and the number increment on regular basis, every two years approximately. Right now with vSphere 6.5 we have the most recent VM hardware version. In today’s post, we will discuss a Three Ways To Determine VM […]
VMware vSAN Upgrade Scenarios For Small Clusters
VMware vSAN, a hyper-converged product from VMware was demoed at VeeamON in New Orleans. I was able to ask few questions Dave Morera from VMware concerning small cluster upgrade options and also about the new protection options for stretched cluster functionality where now it’s possible to specify RAID 5/6 (primary level of FTT) or do not […]
VMware vSAN Pass-Through vs RAID0 Storage Controller
This post is a reflection post on possibilities on different scenarios whether you’re using a VMware vSAN certified storage controller supporting pass-through (or also IT Mode or JBOD mode… all this is the same name) or you’re using a storage controller which uses RAID0 only. I said only as it means that it is limited […]
How To Disable vSphere Web Client Inactivity Timeout
vSphere web client is the principal management tool for VMware infrastructure. It is a flash based solution which is currently the only one providing functionality for configuration all features of VMware vSphere. The new HTML 5 web client is in works, but for now, not all functions are available so this client can’t be used […]
What is VMware vSAN Caching Tier?
VMware vSAN as an Hyperconverged infrastructure solution (HCI) has some basic building blocks. One of them is a vSAN Disk group which was detailed in one of our previous posts. As this technology is still very young and many folks seek an information, I thought that it is a good idea to explain this. So […]
What is VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure?
Normally we would not put such a simple topic on a paper blog, but with so many disinformations around, we thought that this might be just another nontechnical post explaining VMware Terminology. But here it is. This post will explain with simple words What is VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and VMware vSAN. We’re usually writing technical posts […]
StarWind Virtual SAN Linux Version
StarWind is a company which traditionally uses the Windows stack to work with, to build their products. But today I have some news which will interest more Linux users and users willing to save some money on Microsft licensing. StarWind Virtual SAN Linux Version is a topic of today’s post. These days the difference between OS […]
VMware vSAN 6.6 Nested Lab Deployment DEMO
In this post, we’ll explore a new vSAN 6.6 feature allowing you to deploy vSAN via VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) easily to greenfield environments, without the need to allocate a storage space for the VCSA on some temporary local datastore. Note that nested environments are not supported for production environments, but allows a very […]
VMware vSAN 6.6 Released – Configuration DEMO
VMware has officially released vSAN 6.6 so you can download your copy and evaluate the product. This post will detail our small lab configuration, which is a 2-Node vSAN cluster with a Witness running on the third host. For the purpose of this post, I have decommissioned my old environment running vSAN 6.5 (vMotioned VMs […]
What is VMware vSAN Affinity for Stretched Clusters
VMware vSAN 6.6 which has been announced recently, further enhances stretched clusters configuration. The stretched clusters configuration has been part of vSAN since the 2015 release (v6.1). At that time, the stretched cluster configuration was released with fault domain architecture, where Witness is responsible for quorum and voting mechanism during cluster related failures. The Witness […]
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