WHAT IS IT? The on-disk format version of vSAN is much like a VMs Hardware Version or a Distributed Switches Version. In which to take advantage of the updated features of the updated release of vSphere, these versions must be upgraded aswell in order to match the vSphere version you are running. As a note,…
Category: vSAN 6.x
vSAN – SPBM
What is SPBM, how are vSAN policies used and what are the options for each setting within a new policy. That’s what I’ll be attempting to explain using this post which was created with vSAN 6.6 and will be updated as future revisions are released. vSAN policies can be applied to either the vSAN datastore,…
Certified: vSAN Specialist 2017!
Yesterday, I took and passed VMware’s vSAN Specialist 2017 certification exam! It was a 60 question 105 minute exam which I was able to complete with 40 minutes to spare. The specialist exams aren’t related to the typical VCP, VCAP, or VCDX exams in the sense that it tests the knowledge someone has in the specific…
vSAN – Disk Group rebalancing
For vSAN, the definition of balancing is to spread out resources (in this case, disk utilization) across the disk nodes that make up the group. This can be done manually or automatically. In either case some performance degradation can occur. Rebalancing can take up to 24 hrs so be patient when its triggered. Post a…