A quick reference to vSAN content
vSAN is VMware’s Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) platform, offering both compute and distributed storage in a single solution.
Books
- vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage Architecture book – paper / kindle (released 25 April 2023)
- vSAN 7.0 U3 Deep Dive book – paper / kindle (released 09 May 2022)
- A link to the vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive book
Posts
- New Book: VMware vSAN 8.0U1 Express Storage Architecture now available
- Dynamic RWX volumes now supported in TKC in vSphere with Tanzu
- vSAN Data Persistence platform (DPp) Revisited
- Announcement! vSAN Deep Dive book updated for 7.0 U3
- vSAN File Service and K8s PV quota (Video)
- Adding network permissions to K8s PVs backed by vSAN File Share
- vSAN File Service and K8s PVs with implicit quota
- AND and OR rules in storage policies (Video)
- AND and OR rules in storage policies
- vSAN 7.0U2 – What’s new?
- vSAN DPp – MinIO Object Store Supervisor Service [Video]
- vSAN 7.0U1 – Object Format Health Warning after Disk Format v13 upgrade
- vSAN 7.0U1 – File Service SMB support
- vSAN 7.0U1 – Persistent Volume Placement in HCI-Mesh
- vSAN 7.0U1 – Capacity Management
- vSAN 7.0U1 – What’s new?
- vSAN 7 – File Services and Cloud Native Storage Integration (Video)
- vSAN 7 – Using Velero to backup/restore File Services RWX volumes
- vSAN 7 – Read-Write-Many Persistent Volume with File Services
- vSAN 7 – Track vSAN Memory Consumption
- vSAN 7 – Native File Services
- A holiday promo for the vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive book
- vSAN 6.7U3 – New Advanced Options
- vSAN 6.7U3 – What’s new?
- vSAN 6.7U1 – Deep Dive book now available in traditional Chinese
- Celebrating 20,000 #vSAN customers – thank you
- Degraded Device Handling (DDH) Revisited
- vSAN Erasure Coding Failure Handling
- vSAN 6.7U1 – Deep Dive book now available
- vSAN 6.7U1 – Capacity History – Unable to query charts data
- vSAN 6.7U1 – New Advanced Options
- A closer look at EBS-backed (Elastic) vSAN
- Change policy on a vSAN object via RVC
- vSAN 6.7U1 – What’s new?
- vSAN 6.7 – Stretched Cluster and iSCSI
- VMworld 2018 vSAN roundup – Monday, August 27th
- vSAN 6.7 – Stretched Cluster and Horizon View interop update
- Using PowerCLI SPBM cmdlets to create VMs with storage policies
- Why upgrade vSAN? Here is a list of features, release by release
- Minio S3 object store deployed as a set of VMs on vSAN
- vSAN 6.7 – A deeper dive into Fault Tolerant VMs
- vSAN Performance Evaluation Checklist now available
- vSAN 6.7 – What’s new?
- Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), Sustainability and Green IT
- Which policy changes can trigger a rebuild on vSAN?
- A new vSAN training class – vSAN Production Operations
- Taking snapshots on vSAN when there are failures in the cluster
- A closer look at Scality S3 running on vSAN
- A closer look at Minio S3 running on vSAN
- 2-node vSAN – witness network design considerations
- Supporting Fault Tolerance VMs on vSAN Stretched Cluster
- How many hosts are needed to implement SFTT on vSAN Stretched Cluster?
- New vSAN Stretched Cluster topology now supported
- vSAN 6.6.1 – View 7.1 interop – nice fix
- vSAN 6.6.1 – Some nice new features
- Does enabling encryption on vSAN require an on-disk format change?
- Deploying vSAN with Photon Platform v1.2
- Using tags with Storage Policy Based Management
- vSAN 6.6 – Config Asst incorrectly reports physical NIC warnings with LACP/LAG
- Cloning and Snapshots on vSAN when policy cannot be met
- vSAN and Predictive DRS, Network-aware DRS and Proactive HA
- Why vSAN cannot support cross-witness hosting in stretched clusters
- vSAN 6.6 – What’s new?
- Debunking some behavior “myths” in 3-node vSAN
- Sizing for large VMDKs on vSAN
- 2-node vSAN topology review
- Getting more out of vSAN – webcast series coming to EMEA
- vSphere 6.0 U3 – important update for vSAN
- Another recovery from multiple failures in vSAN stretched cluster
- Understanding recovery from multiple failures in vSAN stretched cluster
- The continued rise of HCI, and especially vSAN
- New management pack for vRealize Operations
- vSAN Stretched Cluster – Partition Behavior Changes
- vSAN 6.5 – Extending an ESXi diagnostic core dump partition
- Storage Challenges with VMware Cloud Native Apps (video)
- Deploying Kubernetes manually on Photon Controller v1.1 and vSAN
- Photon Controller v1.1 and vSAN
- PowerCLI 6.5 Release 1 and vSAN
- vSAN 6.5 – What’s new?
- Docker Volume Driver for vSphere using policies on VSAN (short video)
- My VMworld 2016 presentations on VSAN are now available
- Docker Volume Driver for vSphere on Virtual SAN
- VSAN 6.2 now in the hands-on-labs
- Recovering from a full VSAN datastore
- VSAN 6.2 Part 12 – VSAN 6.1 to 6.2 Upgrade Steps
- VSAN 6.2 Upgrade Fails to Realign Objects
- VSAN 6.2 Part 11 – Support for larger VMDKs with higher FTT
- Component Metadata Health – Locating Problematic Disk
- VSAN 6.2 Part 10 – Problematic Disk Handling Improvements
- VSAN 6.2 Part 9 – Replacing the witness appliance
- VSAN 6.2 Part 8 – Upgrading stretched cluster to 6.2
- VSAN 6.2 Part 7 – Capacity Views
- VSAN 6.2 Part 6 – Performance Service
- VSAN 6.2 Part 5 – New Sparse VM Swap object
- VSAN 6.2 Part 4 – IOPS limit for object
- VSAN 6.2 Part 3 – Software Checksum
- VSAN 6.2 Part 2 – RAID-5 and RAID-6 (Erasure Coding)
- VSAN 6.2 Part 1 – Deduplication and Compression
- An overview of the new Virtual SAN 6.2 features
- VSAN Stretched Cluster – some possible warnings
- VSAN.ClomMaxComponentSize explained
- A new vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for VSAN
- VSAN 6.x – Design and Sizing – Memory Overhead
- VSAN 6.1 – SMP-FT support on Virtual SAN
- VSAN resync behaviour when failed component recovers
- Common VSAN health check issues and resolutions
- Proactive Re-balance not starting
- VSAN 6.1 – DRS and VM/Host affinity rules in VSAN stretched clusters
- VSAN 6.1 – Read Locality in VSAN stretched clusters
- Getting started with HCIbench, a benchmark for hyper-converged infras
- My VMworld 2015 session – VSAN Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- VSAN 6.1 – New Feature: Problematic Disk Handling
- VSAN 6.1 – vSphere HA settings for VSAN stretched cluster
- VSAN 6.1 – Step-by-step deployment of the VSAN witness appliance
- VSAN 6.1 – A closer look at the VSAN witness appliance
- VSAN 6.1 – Supported network topologies for VSAN Stretched Cluster
- My VMworld 2015 session – VSAN Proof-Of-Concept (YouTube video)
- VSAN 6.next beta – A glimpse of the future
- VSAN 6.1 – A brief overview of the new Virtual SAN 6.1
- Handling VSAN traces when ESXi host boots from a flash device
- Is VSAN for you? It’s never been easier to check…
- VSAN Health Check 6.0 Patch 1 Announcement
- SAS expander support on VSAN
- Migrating a VM with snapshots to/from VSAN
- Using NexentaConnect for file shares on VSAN
- Using HyTrust Data Control to encrypt VSAN disks
- vROps Management Pack for VSAN – now in beta
- Heads Up! View 6.1 and All Flash VSAN deployment issues
- VSAN 6.0 Part 10 – 10% cache recommendation for AF-VSAN
- Announcing the Virtual SAN 6.0 Health Check Plugin
- VSAN 6.0 Part 9 – Proactive Re-balancing
- VSAN 6.0 Part 8 – Fault Domains
- VSAN 6.0 Part 7 – Blinking the blinking disk LEDs
- VSAN 6.0 Part 6 – Maintenance Mode behaviour changes
- VSAN 6.0 Part 5 – vsanSparse format snapshots
- VSAN 6.0 Part 4 – All Flash Capacity Tier Considerations
- VSAN 6.0 Part 3 – New Default Datastore Policy
- VSAN 6.0 Part 2 – On-disk format upgrade considerations
- VSAN 6.0 Part 1 – New quorum mechanism
- ESXi 5.5 EP6 is now live. Important patch for VSAN users
- A brief overview of VSAN 6.0 new features and functionality
- VSAN considerations when booting from SD/USB device
- VSAN 5.5 Part 35 – Considerations when changing policy dynamically
- VSAN 5.5 Part 34 – how many disks are needed for stripe width
- VSAN 5.5 Part 33 – Some common misconceptions explained
- VSAN 5.5 Part 32 – Datastore capacity not adding up
- VSAN 5.5 Part 31 – Object compliance and operational status
- VSAN 5.5 Part 30 – Difference between Absent and Degraded
- My VSAN session from the 2014 Nordics VMUG (YouTube)
- Tips for a successful VSAN 5.5 Proof of Concept
- vsan.resync_dashboard only shows VM resyncs, not templates
- VSAN 5.5 and OEM ESXi ISO images
- Heads Up! Incorrect reporting of Outstanding IO
- VSAN 5.5 Part 29 – Cannot complete file creation operation
- VSAN 5.5 Troubleshooting Case Study
- VSAN 5.5 Part 28 – RVC login difficulties
- VSAN 5.5 Part 27 – VM memory snapshot considerations
- VSAN 5.5 Part 26 – Does disk size matter?
- Heads Up! VASA storage providers disconnected – VSAN capabilities missing
- VSAN 5.5 Part 25 – How many hosts do I need to tolerate failures?
- VSAN 5.5 Part 24 – Why is VSAN deploying thick disks?
- VSAN 5.5 Part 23 – Why is my Storage Object Striped?
- VSAN 5.5 Part 22 – Policy Compliance Status
- VSAN 5.5 Part 21 – What is a witness?
- VSAN 5.5 Part 20 – VM Swap and VM Storage Policies
- VSAN 5.5 and vCenter Operations Manager interoperability
- VSAN 5.5 and vSphere Replication interoperability
- VSAN 5.5 and vSphere Data Protection interoperability
- VSAN 5.5 and Horizon View Interoperability
- VSAN 5.5 Part 19 – Common Configuration Gotchas
- VSAN 5.5 Part 18 – VM Home Namespace and VM Storage Policies
- Getting started with Fusion-io and VSAN 5.5
- VSAN 5.5 Announcement Review
- VSAN 5.5 Part 17 – Removing a disk group from a host
- VSAN 5.5 Part 16 – Reclaiming disks for other uses
- VSAN 5.5 Part 15 – Multicast Requirement – Misconfiguration detected
- VSAN 5.5 Part 14 – Host Memory Requirements
- VSAN 5.5 Part 13 – Examining the .vswp object
- VSAN 5.5 Part 12 – SPBM Extensions in RVC
- VSAN 5.5 Part 11 – Shutting down the VSAN Cluster
- VSAN 5.5 Part 10 – Changing VM Storage Policy on-the-fly
- VSAN 5.5 Part 9 – Host Failure Scenarios and vSphere HA interop
- VSAN 5.5 Part 8 – The role of the SSD
- VSAN 5.5 Part 7 – Capabilities and VM Storage Policies
- VSAN 5.5 Part 6 – Manual or Automatic Mode
- VSAN 5.5 Part 5 – The role of VASA
- VSAN 5.5 Part 4 – Understanding Objects and Components
- VSAN 5.5 Part 3 – It is not a Virtual Storage Appliance
- VSAN 5.5 Part 2 – What do you need to get started?
- VSAN 5.5 Part 1 – A first look at VSAN