vSANTraces are generally used to troubleshoot and debug critical performance issues in vSAN(OSA and ESA) and also in some cases they are used to troubleshoot vSAN data-path related problems such as Stuck-IO, Congestion, slow/no de-stage etcetera. vSANTraces are not require to troubleshoot/debug all kinds of issues …

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Introduction vSAN-ESA has introduced this concept of Storage Pools where all the disks in a given storage-pool contributes towards total capacity available for consumption. This initial release of vSAN ESA supports compression and encryption however doesn’t support Deduplication. vSAN ESA also introduced this concept …

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I have already briefly talked about vSAN-ESA’s Log Structured File System(LFS) in my previous blog, it advised to go over it once before you continue reading here. This blog talks about the overview and architecture of LFS and how erasure coding is benefited when LFS was introduced into vSAN ESA architecture. How LFS …

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vSAN-8 launched with a brand new storage architecture for vSAN called VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture or ESA along side with a few enhancements to vSAN-OSA which is the Original Storage Architecture. Users are given an option at the beginning of vSAN Cluster setup with vSphere-8 to choose either of the …

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