VSAN

By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

vSAN 6.7 All Flash Configuration

VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a hypervisor-converged storage solution for your vSphere environment.  In this post, I will explain how to perform a vSAN All-Flash configuration. vSAN All-Flash Architecture In All-Flash Configuration one designated flash device is used for the...

08/06/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

WSFC Configuration with vSAN 6.7 iSCSI Target

In my previous post, I have discussed about iSCSI Target Configuration in vSAN 6.7 and mentioned about new feature Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) using the vSAN iSCSI target service. In this post, you can find the configuration of Windows Server Failover Cluster...

27/03/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Configure iSCSI target on vSAN 6 .7

As we know with vSAN 6.5, VMware released feature iSCSI Target and with new release of vSAN version 6.7, they have enhanced this feature. vSAN 6.7 now supports iSCSI target with SCSI Persistent Reservations for iSCSI shared disks. We can present the...

17/03/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

vSAN Erasure Coding – RAID 5 and RAID 6

First when you hear the term “Erasure Coding”, confused? , Let’s clarify this. what is “Erasure Coding” , Erasure Coding is a general term that refers to *any* scheme of encoding and partitioning data into fragments in a way that...

12/05/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

vSAN Deduplication and Compression

Deduplication and compression are the two great space efficiency features on vSAN. With help of these techniques, you will be able to reduce the overall storage consumption on Virtual SAN. As we all know the concept of the duplication since...

09/03/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

What’s New VMware vSAN 6.7

In my Previous post have mentioned  about new vSAN version , lets find out all the new features availabel with VMware vSAN 6.7 .   4Kn drive support vSAN 6.7 supports 4K Native disk drives.  4Kn drives provide higher capacity densities compared to...

19/04/2018
Published 2 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

on-disk format version 6 on vSAN 6.7

With vSAN 6.7 new on-disk format is available , version 6.0 . And after the upgrade of vSAN infra you can upgrade on-disk format to latest version .In on-disk format version 5.0, no data evacuation is performed as the disks...

19/04/2018
Published 2 weeks ago