VMware vSphere 7 and vSAN storage is a large topic. In this post, we’ll describe some bases and talk about vSAN. This post is a part of a free Study Guide when preparing to pass the VMware VCP-DCV certification exam. In our free guide, we cover all topics from VCP-DCV 2021 exam that are listed on […]
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 […]
By default VSAN does not show any VM storage policies – How to create them
When I finally accomplished my “homebrewed” VSAN cluster by checking “activate VSAN” check box and manually associated the locally attached disk drives into the disk groups, I thought that’s it, VSAN is up and running. True, but after migrating few VMs to the newly created VSAN datastore I thought hey, there should be some storage […]
My VSAN Journey – Part 1 – The homebrew “node”
VMware VSAN product is nice piece of software which allows using local DAS storage as well as local SSD(s) in each host to configure a pooled datastore. The product shall be released in 2014 and you can find all the necessary info and guides through VMware VSAN community page, where you can currently download public […]
VMware VSAN during VMworld Barcelona
I just wanted to point out to sessions and group discussions that will discuss VMware VSAN. As you know, the sessions are recorded, but the discussions are not. So it’s a probably smart move for some to attend the group discussions instead of the actual session as the recording will be available online after VMworld. […]
Free VMworld 2013 Session – The Next Phase in the Evolution of Enterprise Storage
There is over 22 000 attendees this year at VMworld 2013 San Francisco, for the 10th VMworld! This is a new record, certainly, but I think that there is many more people which still could not attend. For different reasons, financial, time, work, family… I’m trying to cover the event remotely too, as I’m planning […]
VMware VSAN introduced in vSphere 5.5 – How it works and what’s the requirements?
VMware vSAN allows presenting locally attached storage (SSD and HDD) to create clustered datastore. VMware vSAN is a software feature is built into the hypervisor. To be able to leverage VMware vSAN, you’ll need to associate at least one HDD and one SSD in each of the servers participating in the vSAN cluster, where the […]