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vSAN Witness Appliance 9.0

You have probably run into the same problem I did: a freshly deployed 9.0 Witness Appliance that ignores its configuration and reports an expired licence.

Storage 2.62 Cloud 1.94 +1

vSAN Data Protection

vSAN 8 Update 3 brought the Data Protection feature, which closes the last gap against conventional block storage. You can now snapshot workloads on production storage directly.

Storage 2.62 Backup and Recovery 2.18 +1

vSAN Snapshot Service Appliance for vSAN Data Protection

VMware released with vSAN 8 Update 3 the data protection feature which enables based on the tremendous power of ESA's snapshotting engine an all new levels of data protection and agility.

Storage 2.62 Backup and Recovery 2.18

Storage performance testing with vdbench

IOmeter is quick, but its data patterns do not suit a modern storage array. vdbench is the better tool, and this is how to configure it.

Storage 2.62

Storage performance testing with IOmeter

Every successful storage project ends with a storage performance test during system acceptance, checking the array, the storage area network and the hosts.

Storage 2.62

iSCSI Datastore Not Consumed

On a customer project running current vSphere 8.0 U2, some hosts recognised their iSCSI devices but reported them as “not consumed”, so the ESXi host saw no iSCSI datastores at all.

Storage 2.62

RAID controllers

If you have configured an HPE ProLiant server, you have almost certainly met a Smart Array or SmartRAID controller. Since Gen10 there is another option: the MegaRAID controllers.

Storage 2.62

HCI with StorMagic

StorMagic SvSAN is a software-defined storage solution that suits small virtualisation environments with two nodes, turning the SSDs, disks and memory of two servers into a virtual SAN.

Storage 2.62

How to skip vSAN HCL Checks for ESXi Upgrades

A short blog about how one can disable vSAN HCL Checks in VCF SDDC manager.

Cloud 1.94 Virtualization 1.37 +1

Setting up a greenfield vSAN cluster on 6.5 Update 1

Recently I had the pleasure of doing a vSAN project for one of our customers. The project scale was very small but nonetheless very interesting.

Storage 2.62

Tips and Tricks for vSAN troubleshooting

Today I attended a Web-Session from VMware with the topic vSAN troubleshooting tips and tricks and I wanted to share those tips and tricks with you.

Storage 2.62