Mar 15

VSAN 6.2 Architectural Overview

Join me and my special guest Steve Tuomey to discuss the VSAN 6.2 architecture, including hybrid and all flash utilization.

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Mar 14

Working with Virtual SAN Storage Policies

This video shows you how to create or modify a Virtual SAN storage policy, how to assign a policy to VMs and other objects, and how to check policy compliance.

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Oct 14

Troubleshooting Virtual SAN on-disk format upgrade to 3.0 failures

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Ramesh B S
This video demonstrates how to troubleshoot Virtual SAN on-disk format upgrade to 3.0, which may fail in small Virtual SAN clusters or ROBO/stretched clusters.

https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2144944

This video demonstrates how to troubleshoot Virtual SAN on-disk format upgrade to 3.0, which may fail in small Virtual SAN clusters or ROBO/stretched clusters.

Attempting an on-disk upgrade in certain VSAN configurations may result in failure. Configurations that can cause these errors are:
– The stretched VSAN Cluster consists of two ESXi Hosts and the Witness Node also called ROBO configuration
– Each Host in the Stretched Cluster contains a single VSAN Disk Group
– A Virtual SAN cluster consists of three normal nodes, with one disk group per node
– A Virtual SAN cluster is very full, preventing the full data migration disk-group decommission mode

During this upgrade, a single point of failure is exposed. Follow all VMware best practices, and your business practices, regarding the backup of important data and virtual machines.

This exposure to additional failure risk is referred to as “reduced redundancy,” and must be manually specified in the Ruby vSphere Console or RVC to allow the upgrade to proceed.

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Apr 13

Virtual SAN 6.2 Automated Deployments with PowerCLI

This demonstration showcases the extensible deployment and configuration flexibility of VMware Virtual SAN through the use of command line interface tools such as PowerCLI by automating the creation of all of the necessary artifacts required to successfully prepared and form an 8 node all-flash VMware Virtual cluster with a single PowerCLI script.

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Jun 18

VMware Virtual SAN Setup

This demonstration showcases the extensible deployment and configuration flexibility of VMware Virtual SAN through the use of command line interface tools such as PowerCLI by automating the creation of all of the necessary artifacts required to successfully prepared and form an 8 node all-flash VMware Virtual cluster with a single PowerCLI script.

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