I created this quick demo last week, and I figured I would share it here. It shows vSAN 7.0 U1 File Services with SMB and NFS support. I wrote about vSAN File Services and what is new in this post here, make sure to read that as well, and of course, it also details all […]
What’s new for vSAN 7.0 U1!?
Every 6-9 months VMware has been pushing out a new feature release of vSAN. After vSphere and vSAN 7.0, which introduced vSphere Lifecycle Manager and vSAN File Services, it is now time to share with you what is new for vSAN 7.0 U1. Again it is a feature-packed release, with many “smaller enhancements, but also […]
Arm Cortex-R82: Combining high-performance 64-bit real-time and applications processing for the next generation of storage devices
Real-time embedded systems, such as Solid-State Drives (SSDs), have relied heavily on the proven, 32-bit Arm Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R8 processors for successful system architectures for generations of products. These systems have historically required less then 4GB of DRAM and addressable space and have not had a need to run Linux. With continually increasing storage capacities […]
Host in vSAN cluster with 0 components while other hosts are almost full?
Internally someone just bumped into an issue where a single host in a cluster wasn’t storing any of the created vSAN Components / Objects. It was to the point where every single host in the cluster was close to the maximum of 9000 components, but that one host had 0 components. After some quick back […]
VCG Notification demo and Changing the Default vSAN Policy Demo
I created two youtube video last week which I just wanted to share with everyone. In these demo’s I am showing the new VCG Notification option. The VCG Notification option is very useful for customers who want to be notified via email when a change to a component of a ready node configuration has occurred. […]
Running ESXi in “Degraded Mode”, what does that mean?
I received a question today, and I didn’t have the answer so I reached out to one of the developers. This person found this line in the ESXi documentation where it states the following, and the question was what does running ESXi in degrade mode actually means, or what is the impact? If a local […]
Inspecting vSAN File Services share objects
Today I was looking at vSAN File Services a bit more and I had some challenges figuring out the details on the objects associated with a File Share. Somehow I had never noticed this, but fortunately, Cormac pointed it out. In the Virtual Objects section of the UI you have the ability to filter, and […]
vSAN File Services: Seeing an imbalance between protocol stack containers and FS VMs
Last week I had this question around vSAN File Services and an imbalance between protocol stack containers and FS VMs. I personally had witnessed the same thing and wasn’t even sure what to expect. So what does this even mean, an imbalance? Well as I have already explained, every host in a vSAN Cluster which […]
vSAN File Services and the different communication layers
I received a bunch of questions based on my vSAN File Services posts the past couple of days. Most questions were around how the different layers talk to each other, and where vSAN comes in to play in this platform. I understand why, I haven’t discussed this aspect yet, but that is primarily as I […]
Enabling vSAN File Services in a vSAN cluster larger than 8 hosts
I noticed something over the weekend, and I want to make sure customers do not run in to this problem. If you have more than 8 hosts in your vSAN Cluster and enable vSAN File Services than the H5 client will ask your for more than 8 IP addresses. These IP addresses are used by […]