In this blog I will be walking through the basics of vSAN Data Protection and its deployment. What is vSAN Data Protection? With introduction of vSAN ESA 8.0 U3 VMware by Broadcom also announced vSAN Data Protection. vSAN Data Protection is a feature which is deployed through an OVF appliance that gives you additional …

Introduction I have already talked about HCI Mesh (dHCI) when it was first launched with vSAN 7.0 U1 here, I would encourage you to read thru my previous blog for better understanding of this feature and its capabilities. This feature was originally announced with vSAN OSA for 7.0 U1 with standard vSAN clusters where a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

vSAN 7 U1 brought in significant changes to its method of creating components especially for objects which are larger than 255GB. This change was brought in adapt to minimum slack space requirements which is significantly lower than all previous versions of vSAN. I highly encourage you to read thru blog articles …