Category: vSAN
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Getting Useful vSAN Details with PowerCLI
Reading Time: 4 minutesGetting Useful vSAN Details with PowerCLI aims to get useful vSAN details or information in a vSAN-enabled cluster. Powershell is a powerful tool embedded in the majority of Windows installations. VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell. It provides more than 800 cmdlets for managing and automating VMware vSphere,…
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Checking Thick-Provisioned Disks with PowerCLI in a vSAN Cluster
Reading Time: 4 minutesChecking Thick-Provisioned Disks with PowerCLI in a vSAN Cluster aims to show thick-provisioned disks using the PowerCLI. First and Foremost, What are Thin-Provisioned and Thick-Provisioned Disks? A thin-provisioned disk is a virtual disk that allocates storage space as needed. Initially, it appears as if the full disk size is available, but it…
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Creating an NFS Share in the vSAN File Services
Reading Time: 7 minutesCreating an NFS Share in the vSAN File Services article shows how to create and mount an NFS share. We will create it in the vSAN File Services and mount it in a PhotonOS client VM. First and Foremost, What is an NFS Share? NFS is an acronym for Network File System.…
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What is a vSAN ESA Storage Pool?
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article aims to show some details of the Storage Pool – the logical unit used by the vSAN ESA to group the disk into an ESXi host and store the vSAN components. First and Foremost, What is the vSAN ESA? vSAN ESA is an acronym for Express Storage Architecture. vSAN Express…
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Comparing vSAN Architectures OSA x ESA
Reading Time: 2 minutesComparing vSAN Architectures OSA x ESA is an article comparing both vSAN architectures OSA and ESA. First and Foremost, What is vSAN ESA? OSA is an acronym for Original Storage Architecture. It is the original vSAN architecture released when vSAN was made. ESA is an acronym for Express Storage Architecture. It is…
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Fixing the Stats Primary Election alert on the vSAN ESA Cluster
Reading Time: 3 minutesFixing the Stats Primary Election alert on the vSAN ESA Cluster is an article that explains how to fix the error “Stats Primary Election” detected by the vSAN Skyline Health on a vSAN ESA cluster. Detecting the Issue When you access the vCenter Server through vSphere Client, you can see an alert…
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Configuring MPIO on Windows iSCSI Initiator
Reading Time: 6 minutesConfiguring MPIO on Windows iSCSI Initiator is an article that explains how to configure the MultiPath Input Output in a Windows Client to provide load balancing and failover process to access an iSCSI LUN provided by the vSAN iSCSI Target Service feature. First and foremost, What is MPIO? MultiPath Input Output (MPIO)…
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Using the vSAN iSCSI Target Service
Reading Time: 7 minutesUsing the vSAN iSCSI Target Service is an article that explains how to enable and configure the vSAN iSCSI Target Service. We will show in a basic way how to enable and configure this service. Before starting, I want to share some official links about this service: https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-iscsi-target-usage-guide https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vsan.doc/GUID-13ADF2FC-9664-448B-A9F3-31059E8FC80E.html About the vSAN…
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What are vSAN Durability Components?
Reading Time: 7 minutesvSAN is a software-defined storage solution used a lot in modern data centers. It’s a police-driven technology that provides us the flexibility to apply different policies for each virtual machine (VM) and different policies for each virtual disk (vmdk level). This article aims to provide a basic understanding of the vSAN Durability…
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What are the vSAN Trace Files?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis article will provide an introduction to the vSAN Trace Files and some techniques to customize the maximum size and location to place those files. So, First and Foremost, What are the vSAN Trace Files? vSAN traces are log files that are used for diagnosing and troubleshooting issues with vSAN. These files…
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Increasing the vSAN Datastore Capacity
Reading Time: 4 minutesIncreasing the vSAN Datastore Capacity is an article that shows how to add disks to an existent vSAN Disk Group to increase the vSAN Datastore Capacity. So, if you have a vSAN Cluster, you could receive some alerts related to the Storage Capacity, Disk Capacity, or Capacity Utilization, as we can see…
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Why does the vSAN File Services VM become inaccessible objects during MM?
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Why does the vSAN File Services VM become inaccessible objects during MM” is an article that explains what is the reason for the vSAN File Service VM to stay with inaccessible objects during ESXi’s maintenance mode operation. First things first, so, vSAN is a VMware technology for creating an Object-Based Datastore, totally…