Monitoring vSAN is an important aspect of any operational team leveraging HCI within their environments. As such, there are multiple tools out there to provide detailed metrics, graphs, and reports that a team can choose from. Which one is right for you is a questions you’ll need to answer, based on your technical and business requirements. I want to highlight […]
Recently I have been having conversations around operationalizing SDDC environments, understanding what to monitor, and the most common failure scenarios. There are a myriad of monitoring tools and services out there that can be leveraged to varying degrees to monitor physical and virtual infrastructure. Over the course of my career, I’ve leveraged nearly a dozen different tools for monitoring and […]
I’ve recently had several conversations around whether leveraging thin or thick provisioning within a vSAN datastore is necessary. Although the default vSAN Storage Policy leverages thin provisioning, it is important to understand why it is the default and the recommended best practice. Thin vs Thick Provisioning Let’s start with how vSAN defines a thin or thick provisioned disk. Within a […]
With my new role, I am once again drinking from the firehose. The result of which has primarily seen me go heads-down on all things vSAN related, including a course on the new features included in the vSphere 6.7 U1 release. The latest vSAN release included in vSphere 6.7 U1, includes new functionality to support TRIM/UNMAP guest OS commands to […]
The latest release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 3.0) removed the host imaging functionality. As past of the laundry list of pre-requisites for preparing an environment for VCF, one necessary step in an All-Flash vSAN environment is to mark the appropriate capacity disks. During a POC deployment last week of VCF 3.0, this pre-requisite became evident and required a quick […]
