Category: vSAN
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Useful RVC Commands for Troubleshooting vSAN
Reading Time: 21 minutesUseful RVC Commands for Troubleshooting vSAN is an article that provides some RVC commands to help the vSAN troubleshooting process. Firstly, What is RVC? RVC is an acronym for Ruby vSphere Console. It is an interactive command-line console accessible by the vCenter Server. The RVC is based on the popular RbVmomi Ruby…
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Implementing vSAN HCI Mesh
Reading Time: 7 minutesImplementing vSAN HCI Mesh is an article that explains how to mount a remote vSAN datastore provided by a remote vSAN Cluster. An Introduction About vSAN HCI Mesh The vSAN HCI Mesh is a service that enables administrators to mount the datastore of another vSAN cluster. We have the client cluster that…
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Force provisioning option in vSAN policies
Reading Time: 5 minutesForce provisioning option in vSAN policies is an article that explains in a practical way how the advanced option force provisioning works. Firstly, if you need to know a little bit about vSAN, we have an article that explains what is vSAN (in a basic way) and how to set up a…
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Explaining vSAN’s Free Capacity
Reading Time: 5 minutesExplaining vSAN’s Free Capacity is an article that explains some important points about vSAN’s free space recommendation to maintain your vSAN cluster healthy. What is vSAN Slack Space? vSAN Slack Space is a free space or a free area in the vSAN Datastore reserved for vSAN’s internal operations such as host maintenance…
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Shut Down the vSAN Cluster
Reading Time: 4 minutesShut Down the vSAN Cluster is an article that explains how to shut down the vSAN Cluster correctly for something scheduled maintenance or something like that. Firstly, if you are running vSAN 7.0 Update 3 or later, there is a wizard that helps in this task. The Wizard calls “Shut Down Cluster…
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Adding Hosts into an existing vSAN Cluster
Reading Time: 6 minutesAdding Hosts into an existing vSAN Cluster is an article that explains how to add hosts with minimal impact to an existing vSAN Cluster. In our case, we have a vSAN Stretched Cluster and we need to add more ESXi hosts to expand this cluster. So, we will show how to do…
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Creating a vSAN Stretched Cluster with vSAN 8
Reading Time: 6 minutesCreating a vSAN Stretched Cluster with vSAN 8 is an article that explains in a practical way how to create a Stretched Cluster using the new vSAN architecture called ESA – Express Storage Architecture. vSAN 8 is a new vSAN version released a few months ago. VMware vSAN 8, Introduces the revolutionary Express…
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Creating a vSAN Stretched Cluster
Reading Time: 16 minutesCreating a vSAN Stretched Cluster is an article that explains how to create another type of vSAN Cluster, called vSAN Stretched Cluster. Before we are starting to create a vSAN Cluster Stretched Cluster, I need to share one of the best places to get more details about vSAN. This place is the VMware…
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How to create a vSAN Cluster
Reading Time: 12 minutesHow to create a vSAN Cluster is an article that explains what is vSAN and how steps are needed to create a vSAN Cluster. Before we are starting to create a vSAN Cluster, I need to share one of the best places to get more details about vSAN. This place is the…