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VSAN and vSphere Replication Interop
After spending a lot of time looking at the architecture of VSAN, I wanted to spend some time looking at how well it inter-operates with other vSphere products and features. vSphere Replication is a...
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VSAN & VDP Interop
In this post I though it might be useful to share some information about VSAN interoperability with VMware’s flagship backup and restore product, vSphere Data Protection also known as VDP. First a note...
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VSAN with Horizon View Interop
Advertise here with BSAIt should come as no surprise but VMware Horizon View is also supported on VSAN. VMware released Horizon View version 5.3.1 to coincide with the vSphere 5.5.U1 and VSAN release....
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VSAN Part 20 – VM Swap and VM Storage Policies
Advertise here with BSAIn a previous post I spoke in-depth about the different objects which go to make up a virtual machine which resides on a VSAN datastore. To recap, these are the VM Home...
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VSAN Part 21 – What is a witness?
Advertise here with BSAAt this stage, VSAN has only been in GA for a number of weeks, even though many of us here at VMware have been working on it for a year or two (or even more). Sometimes when we...
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VSAN and vCenter Operations Interop
Advertise here with BSAContinuing on my set of posts related to Virtual SAN (VSAN) interoperability, let’s take a look at how vCenter Operations Manager (vC Ops for short) integrates with Virtual SAN....
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VSAN Part 22 – Policy Compliance Status
Advertise here with BSAI thought it might be useful to share some of the various VM Storage Policy status that I have observed whilst testing Virtual SAN (VSAN). I’m sure this is by no means a...
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VSAN Part 23 – Why is my Storage Object Striped?
Advertise here with BSAThose of you familiar with VSAN will know that one of the capabilities which can be placed in a VM Storage Policy is Number of Disk Stripes Per Object (stripe width for short)....
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Nimble Storage revisited – a chat with Wen Yu
Advertise here with BSANimble Storage are another company who have been making a lot of waves in the world of storage in recent years. Based in San Jose, CA, they IPO’ed earlier this year, and have...
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VSAN Part 24 – Why is VSAN deploying thick disks?
Advertise here with BSAIn this post, we talk about a particular behaviour with using the default (or None) policy with VSAN. I have stated many times in the past that when a VM is deployed on the VSAN...
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VSAN Part 25 – How many hosts needed to tolerate failures?
Advertise here with BSAThis is a question that has come up a number of times. Many of you will now be familiar with the VM Storage Policy capability Number Of Failures To Tolerate for VSAN, which...
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VSAN Part 26 – Does Disk Size Matter?
Advertise here with BSAI was involved in an interesting thread recently with one of our VSAN partners regarding disk sizes used in VSAN, and what impact smaller drives may have. In an earlier post, I...
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Make us laugh – win an Essential VSAN eBook. Simples!
Advertise here with BSAA couple of weeks ago the electronic version of Essential Virtual SAN was published and this week the first paper copies started shipping! Because of that, Duncan and I decided...
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VSAN Part 27 – VM Memory Snapshot Considerations
Advertise here with BSAI’ve done a few posts in the past which discuss the VM Home Namespace object. To recap, the VM Home Namespace is where we store all the virtual machine configuration files, such...
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VSAN Part 28 – RVC login difficulties
Advertise here with BSAIt’s interesting how a number of conversations tend to pop up around the same issue in a short space of time. I read a very interesting thread from one of our support guys...
View ArticleA brief overview of new Virtual SAN 6.0 features and functionality
The embargo on what’s new in vSphere 6.0 has now been lifted, so we can now start to discuss publicly about new features and functionality. For the last number of months, I’ve been heavily involved in...
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VSAN 6.0 Part 1 – New quorum mechanism
vSphere 6.0 released yesterday. It included the new version of Virtual SAN – 6.0. I now wish to start sharing some of the new features and functionality with you. One of things we always enforced with...
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VSAN 6.0 Part 2 – v2 On-disk Format Upgrade Considerations
I was heavily involved in the documentation effort for VSAN 6.0, but I know that not everyone likes to RTFM, so to speak. What I thought I would do in this post is give an overview of the upgrade...
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VSAN 6.0 Part 3 – New Default Datastore Policy
One of the most common issues I got questions about in VSAN 5.5 was “why is VSAN deploying thick disks, when all of the documentation stated that VSAN deploys thin disks”? The answer was quite straight...
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VSAN 6.0 Part 4 – All-Flash VSAN Capacity Tier Considerations
In Virtual SAN version 6.0, VMware introduced support for an all-flash VSAN. In other words, both the caching layer and the capacity layer could be made up of flash-based devices such as SSDs....
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