VSAN 6.2 Part 3 – Software Checksum

This next part of the VSAN 6.2 series of posts focuses on an important feature which many customer have been requesting. VSAN 6.2 introduces another new feature, end-to-end software checksum, to help customers avoid data integrity issues arising due to problems on the underlying storage media. In VSAN 6.2, checksum is enabled by default, but may be enabled or disabled on per virtual machine/object basis via VM storage policies. Checksum is enabled by default as we feel customers will always want to leverage this great new feature. The only reason one might disable it is if the application already has…