vSAN and Fault Domains, aka Rack Awareness
Keeping your virtual workloads up and running at all times while also providing the back-end data resiliency is key to any VMware vSphere deployment. This is true if your shared-storage mode consists...
View ArticleMigrating From a 2-Node to a 3-Node vSAN Cluster
A few months back I put together a post outlining the deployment of a 2-node vSAN cluster (located HERE). Well just like in a customer scenario, a 2-Node cluster might just not be enough resources and...
View ArticleNotes from the Field – vSAN Virtual Network Design
vvVirtual networking always takes a significant role in any VMware vSphere design, and even more so if you are leveraging IP-based storage like NAS or iSCSI. If using VMware’s vSAN product, I think it...
View ArticleManaging Veeam Agents in Backup & Replication 9.5U3
Veeam’s Backup and Replication product over the years has set the bar for what backup products could and should be in the virtualization space, whether it be VMware or Microsoft. But as Veeam was a...
View ArticleThinking About Storage Protocols for VSAN
While Software Defined Storage products such as VMware vSAN has moved the industry to thinking less and less about traditional monolithic or dual controller storage systems in the data center and more...
View ArticleNotes from the Field – Tips for Using Storage Policy Based Management with vSAN
One of my favorite aspects about VMware vSAN in an environment is the use of Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM for short) and how you can define the performance or resiliency aspects you want...
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