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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe vExpert vSAN program is a specific VMware vExpert (sub)programs focused on the vSAN product. The idea to have specialized groups of vExpert was to bring again (like at the origins) the vExpert program as an “elite” program. After the vExpert vSAN 2016 and 2017 lists, now VMware has just announced the vExpert vSAN 2018 new list. I was honored to part of this list again, and that’s pretty exciting, considering that I’m there from the first list.
Reading Time: 5 minutesJust one year ago, VMware has announced vSAN 6.6… now it’s the turn of vSAN 6.7, contextually of the release of vSphere 6.7 GA. VMware vSAN is the VMware’s Software Defined Storage (SDS) solution that also fits in the hyper(visor)-converged model to build a simple (to be managed) and scalable HCI solution. Although is a separate product, the core functions to implement it are already present in the vSphere versions making really easy to deploy and enable it.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRunecast Analyzer is a proactive issue detection software for VMware vSphere environments, powered by the largest database of automated VMware KB articles which feed its internal archive of known issues. With the new release version 1.7 the analysis is now extended also to vSAN environments and can really help not only during the infrastructure validation but also for the maintenance and operation of the infrastructure itself.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRunecast announces the new release version 1.7 of its proactive issue detection software, Runecast Analyzer. After the Meltdown and Spectre detection added in the previous releases, this latest version brings other interesting news. Runecast Analyzer is powered by the largest database of automated VMware KB articles which feed its internal archive of known issues. The interesting aspect of this tool is that it’s very easy and fast to be deployed and that it can work fully in offline mode!
Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware vSAN should manage better VM snapshots compared with traditional storage and VMFS datastores. The reason is the new (v2) on-disk format in VSAN 6.0 and the new filesystem that is used: VirstoFS. VirstoFS is the first implementation of technology that was acquired when VMware bought a company called Virsto a number of years ago. Also there is a new sparse format called vsanSparse. These replace the traditional vmfsSparse format (redo logs).
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware vSAN provides both enterprise-class scale and performance supporting a wide variety of use cases and businesses of all types and sizes. One of the popular use cases for VMware vSAN is running Business-Critical Applications (BCA). But in this case it’s not only running some workload in a virtual environment, but it’s also provide reference architecture, proven configurations and also the ability to use specific functions, like guest clustering.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter replacing the SAS card on some ESXi 6.5 nodes, I’ve got a strange issue in the vSAN cluster. The vSAN was healthy and apparently working, but when I try to build new VMs wasn’t working at all, saying that there weren’t enough resources. But there was a lot of free reported space. The reason was that single node, the capacity disks where simply “not Healthy”, but reported as mounted.
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