vSAN 7.0 U3 delivers improved performance with optimisations made to the data path when using RAID-5/6 erasure coding very similar to what was added to vSAN 7.0 U2 Performance enhancements , vSAN 7.0 U3 offers caching capability to the incoming writes who’s workloads are serialised and have sustained high outstanding …

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In this blog I will go over some of the key benefits with vSAN 7.0U2. I got my hands on a 4 node VxRail Cluster, where I was able to run a few HCIBench tests to compare performance difference between vSAN 7.0 U1 and vSAN 7.0U2. I won’t be able to write a performance comparison between 6.7.x / 7.0x and vSAN 7.0 U1 as …

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In this guide we will be looking at how we can use different storage policy on vSAN datastore to fine tune performance for the virtual machines running on a vSAN Datastore . We will look at different tools which can be run from the guest level and also few tests run with HCIBench . Before you start reading thru this …

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We all know that there is a newer version of HCIBench 2.0 which was announced last month I was able to deploy and run this on one of the All-Flash Clusters , all new changes significantly seemed to have improved user experiences from the previous version . I request you to go thru “Detailed Guide for HCIBench-1.6x ” if …

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Here is a detailed guide on how we may approach ways to optimize a vSAN cluster to deliver best performance on a cluster and find your answers to your questions. How do we assess vSAN performance ? What can I expect from a specific hardware? How best can we tweak vSAN clusters to achieve best performance ? What are the …

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After you setup a new vSAN/VxRAIL/VxRACK HCI deployment , you will definitely need to benchmark your cluster before moving it to production . Here is your small guide to “vSAN Performance Benchmark” using a famous useful tool called HCI Bench which is freely available on VMware Labs website . You may be wondering what …

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