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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
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Missing vSAN Proactive Tests in vSphere 6.5

I have shared a post about whats new with vSAN  6.6.1  but i have not mentioned  due to new features  what will happen to old . Recently I was looking in to proactive test feature and i was able to find only...

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

vSAN 6.7 Announced

As we all know vSphere 6.7 is released  and there is one more update as vSAN 6.7 is also released .This release offers features and capabilities that enable improved performance, usability and consistency. There are many  improvements to the management...

18/04/2018
Published 2 weeks ago