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VMworld 2013 recap – Day 1

By admin on August 27, 2013 in VMworld

The day began with meeting up with Aidan Dalgleish and Kamau Wanguhu at the Hilton lobby, with us putting last minute changes to our slide deck for session VSVC7371. Well mainly it was Aidan being the OCD expert he is putting last minute changes to slide deck. We went straight to the speaker lounge and updated the presentation. Keynote After grabbing breakfast it was time to head to the keynote. This was going to be the first keynote Pat Gelsinger presented. I enjoyed this keynote, it was a different angle to what we have seen in the past from Paul Maritz, Pat poked fun at himself, showing off pictures of him as a dragon slayer among others. It was good fun. Then the moment came in the keynote where Pat announced the general availability of vSphere 5.5 and I was able to publish two of my articles I have had […]

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Configure Disk Redundancy VMware VSAN – Virtual SAN

By admin on August 26, 2013 in Storage, VMware Posts

This article demonstrates demonstrates how to configure disk redundancy VMware VSAN and is a follow on post from my How to enable VMware VSAN The previous article showed how to configure a vSphere cluster for use with VMware VSAN. Configure Disk Redundancy in VMware VSAN When we configure Disk redundancy in VMware VSAN we do not setup any hardware based RAID configuration (remember the design consideration, this was a pre-requisite to have Pass-Through RAID Controllers). So how do we ensure data protection? VMware VSAN uses Storage policies to do this. These can be found in vCenter Home -> Rules and Profiles -> VM Storage Profiles. Using VM Storage Profiles you can assign capabilities to storage. In a Cloud environment, we like to use Gold, Silver and Bronze to determine our storage capabilities. We can easily create these policies to now match the capabilities of the storage. We have a number […]

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VMware VSAN – Virtual SAN – How to configure

By admin on August 26, 2013 in Storage

This article shows how to enable a VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) cluster within VMware vSphere. If you are unfamiliar with VSAN, and what it is, I recommend reading the following articles. Duncan Epping’s Tech Preview of Distributed Storage Cormac Hogan’s Distributed Storage Tech Preview Lets start off by looking at the Pre-requisites of VMware VSAN, what do we need in place before we begin the configuration. Pre-requisites There are a number of pre-requisites that are needed, prior to configuring a vSphere cluster to participate as a VSAN. The following list shows the minimum requirements to implement a VSAN. Minimum of three hosts. Each storage* host has a minimum of one SSD and one spindle hard disk. Each storage* host has a Pass-thru RAID controller as specified in the HCL. The RAID controller must be able to present disks directly to the host without a RAID configuration. 10GB Network. (1GB network […]

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