How to safely evacuate the node from the vSAN cluster on VMware vSphere? VMware vSAN is one of the low-cost storage solutions for startups and mid-size companies. vSAN eliminates the need of Fibre channel networks. It aggregates the local disks and provides the storage over the network. This article will walk through how to remove […]
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VMware vSAN Lab – How to Create Fake SSD on VMware workstation?
VMware vSAN is a hyper-converged, widely used software-defined storage for a VMware vSphere environment. Using Nested virtualization, Many of us will try to practice vSAN Lab on VMware Workstation. In my old article, I have shared the trick to convert the Non-SSD to SDD disk by enabling the rule on ESXi. But this procedure is […]
How to Create a Fake SSD on VMware ESXi for Testing VSAN ?
I have been trying to test VMware VSAN on my VMware workstation . One of the important requirement for VSAN is solid state drive. So i have been in such a situation to make the virtual harddrive as SSD. After lot research over the internet , i have found trick which has been shared by […]
What is VMware’s VSAN ? How to Implement it ?
VMware is offering different piece of software to utilize the all type of x86 hardwares in the world.Virtual SAN is another great achievement of VMware which helps you to eliminate the costliest SAN network and costlier NAS storage devices. VSAN algorithm is very simple and smart. When you buy a server, by default it will […]
VSAN Deployment issues and Fixes
You can’t successfully deploy any software product in the first shot. I have successfully deployed VSAN in my third attempt . It also differs to person to person and their knowledge but some people will never complete it .Here i would to share the issues what i have faced during the deployment.First thing that, I haven’t […]
How to create VSAN diskgroup on VMware ?
In this article ,we will see how to create VSAN diskgroup on vSphere environment.As a prerequisites, we have already setup the dedicated VSAN network and VSAN cluster setup. To create VSAN diskgroup, you should have minimum one SSD (solid state drive) and one magnetic disk. SSD is very import to improve the read and write speed […]
How to configure VSAN cluster on VMware ?
Once you have set up the dedicated VSAN network, then you can start configuring VSAN cluster.Before proceeding with VSAN cluster , please make sure that ESXi hosts are connected with solid state drives.(SSD). VMware Recommends to have SSD on each VSAN diskgroup to improve the read and write performance.At the time of VSAN cluster creation, […]
How to create a VMware Virtual SAN Network ?
To setup the Virtual SAN cluster environment, you should have the dedicated network for VSAN which provides the inter-cluster communication and also to perform the read and write operation on the remote vSphere systems for virtual machines.Both vSphere Distributed switch and Standard switch supports VSAN network but you need to create dedicated vmkernel adapter. Since […]