To understand vSAN component placement and sizing , we should be proficient in creating storage policy and understand the parameters you choose while creating a storage policy . I recommend you to read the vm-storage-policy guide before proceeding . Please note the following Section “Understanding Component Placements” …

“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 / …

How to silence warnings on vSAN health Plugin? There are many situations that you may be aware of a particular warning which is not very critical and which is something you are already aware of , however you would like to have the warning silenced or disabled and would like to see the health check come clean every-time …

How to Login into RVC? , I have been asked this question multiple times and there is no default KB and direct link explaining the steps to login to RVC for vCenter servers . This article explains steps to login into RVC for both vcenter Server Appliance and Windows based vcenter server . How to log into RVC on a VCSA …

How to perform vSAN cluster maintenance activities? You may be wondering what should be the Steps to reboot vSAN hosts and pre-checks before attempting a host reboot which is participating in a vSAN cluster , here is your guide to make sure your are not affecting your production in the process of a vSAN node upgrade . …

How to Upgrade to vSAN 6.6 ? How to Upgrade vSAN cluster through Update manager? There is significant improvement when it comes to performance and the way things are handled in vSAN 6.6 , you are allowed to perform upgrades for the hosts using Update Manager available on the latest vCenter server 6.5 update 1 as VUM is …

Here are the troubleshooting Steps to resolve Unicastagent issues on vSAN cluster post upgrade usually from vSAN 6.1 / 6.2 / 6.5 to vSAN to 6.6 6.50d and below as we no longer use multicast from version 6.7 and unicastagent list is not updated with correct details on one or more hosts and you also vSAN network …

Here is your simple “How to Upgrade vSAN with best practice guide ?” . I have been asked by a lot of people recently regarding vSAN upgrades sequence , questions will generally be like ,what are my threats? , what are the prerequisites ? , Should I perform upgrades on all hosts together or one node after another ? what …