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 blog you will see how we upgrade your VxRail cluster to version 7.x. The pre-requisites and approach to upgrade to VxRAIL 7..x has quite few changes when compared to previous versions/releases. Note: VxRail upgrades is usually done through VxRail support over a remote session or thru onsite VxRail Systems …
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I have been asked about vSAN iSCSI target configuration and how the objects looks within vSAN ? Here is a small guide that gets you going with vSAN iSCSI configuration and how you get to see the actual luns within vSAN as vSAN objects . The iSCSI lun creation and presentation is very simple , I have put together …
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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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“VxRAIL Hosts going Non-responsive” symptoms are seen because of many reason , here we are going to discuss about one such issues seen which is very common lately . The hosts Generally go non-responsive is because the hostd service on the ESXi hosts is non-responsive . The fastest way to fiund is through the iDRAC / …
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