vSAN Troubleshooting
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
vSAN Troubleshooting
vSAN will declare the disks as permanently unavailable , dead or unmounted for multiple reasons . You will have further investigate on the logs to find out the case for such unmounts . Here is a small guide which should enable you to isolating the problem . It is always good to start looking
vSAN Troubleshooting
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
vSAN Performance
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
vSAN Troubleshooting
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 up
General-vSphere
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
vSAN-general
Hello all here is a table to compare the versions of different VxRAIL manager with VCenter server / vSAN and ESXI build . If you were planning to upgrade your vcenter /ESXI or vSAN release to address any known problems , you will have to upgrade this from the VxRAIL manager and not
vSAN Troubleshooting
To understand vSAN component placement and sizing , we should be proficient in creating storage policy and understand the parameters you choose while creating a storage policy . I recommend you to read the vm-storage-policy guide before proceeding . Please note the following Section “Understanding Component Placements” will not apply to
VxRAIL
“VxRAIL Hosts going Non-responsive” symptoms are seen because of many reason , here we are going to discuss about one such issues seen which is very common lately . The hosts Generally go non-responsive is because the hostd service on the ESXi hosts is non-responsive . The fastest way to
vSAN Troubleshooting
At many times we may wonder while managing multiple vSAN clusters in a production environment , what are my”Things to know for vSAN management” you may ask yourself ?,a Complete guide for your every day tasks while managing vSAN clusters and things to know which can cause potential disaster without
vSAN Troubleshooting
How to silence warnings on vSAN health Plugin? There are many situations that you may be aware of a particular warning which is not very critical and which is something you are already aware of , however you would like to have the warning silenced or disabled and would like to
vSAN Troubleshooting
How to Login into RVC? , I have been asked this question multiple times and there is no default KB and direct link explaining the steps to login to RVC for vCenter servers . This article explains steps to login into RVC for both vcenter Server Appliance and Windows based vcenter server