With the new P5800X and PMem 200 launch, the Intel Optane DC P4800X and accompanying Memory Drive Technology Plans are being discontinued

The purpose of this article is to explain vSAN "Proactive Rebalance and  Automatic Rebalance " when it may be applicable.   If disks report errors in the health

In this video, I quickly demonstrate where you can find the new performance/network metrics that were added in vSAN 7.0 U2.

VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 is officially released, and with it comes a feature that closes an observed resiliency gap during unplanned outages.

I was recently working in an environment where my vCenter server was managing two vSAN clusters, each with its own datastore. I wanted to be able to choose which datastore to provision to via storage policy, but came across some unexpected behaviour. When I configured my vSAN Rule and my Tag Rule, it seems that both datastores would appear as compliant to the policy. I found out the reason, and decided to write it up as I had never known this was how policies AND and OR rules behaved until now. Setting up Tags I created a Tags Category called…

Last week, I wrote an article which described how to use a combination of vSAN Availability Rules with Tag Based Placement Rules in vSAN Storage Policies to select one specific vSAN datastore for object placement when many vSAN datastores might appear as compatible candidates. I create this short 3m30s video to show how to do this in practice.

Monitoring vSAN capacity is easier than ever in VMware vSAN 7 Update 2

For More information on this topic, see the vSAN Design Guide found at core.vmware.com vSAN cache recommendations for vSAN 5.5 were 10% of used capacity. With the addition of all-flash in 6.0 it stayed at 10% and Cormac here explains the math behind this. Now if you look closely you’ll notice a few issues as vSAN … Continued

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