There are many questions revolving around different layers of vSAN back-end architecture and how we can isolate problems with vSAN or in general approach towards troubleshooting a problem with vSAN . Here is an article which can help you isolate and potentially resolve a problem which involves a vSAN environment by …

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New Blog Post for “How to install , configure and Migrate to SRM 8.2” ,if you are interested to deploy SRM 8.2 instead of SRM 8.1 . SRM 8.2 comes with the appliance edition and is far more easier and faster to deploy and configure . This was just released in May 2019 . Site recovery Manager 8.1 and vSphere Replication …

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I highly encourage you to check out my previous blog to understand how vSAN encryption works before you jump into troubleshooting problems with vSAN and a KMS server . This blog should give you a general approach towards troubleshooting problems with vSAN-encryption and also be able to look at a specific log location …

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At many times we may see issues with webclient reporting a 120 second time out and we are unable to manage vSAN from the configure (Cluster ⇒ Configure ⇒ vSAN ) and monitor (Cluster ⇒ Monitor⇒ vSAN ) for vSAN . However from the SSH the cluster is health with no issues . This is generally indication of problems with the …

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At many times we wonder why we are not able to re-apply policy on a vSAN object or a virtual machine , it may be grayed out and many VMs on the vSAN datastore shows up as non-compliant . Here is a complete guide which helps you understanding the role and importance of the VASA providers in a vSAN environment ,the …

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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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I highly encourage everyone to go thru the Blog/Article about “understanding-vsan-objects-and-component” which explains how components are created based on the policy that you create . So that you understand the fundamentals of Objects and components which will help you “Understanding VM-Storage-Policies” . Lets pick …

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New “Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility” which is GUI based is now available on the VMware-labs This is a boon to many of the administrators , who were earlier using the CLI utility or even the Regular vCenter servers in the same SSO domain . This new tool will allow administrators to XVmotion the VMs between …

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