During holdays a disk broke in our lab, thats a great opportunity to review what we need to do when a disk fails in vSAN and how to fix an error when we try to remove the diskgroup. Our platform: Some of the details covered in this articule only apply to traditional vSAN OSA architecture …
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Author:Francisco Tocino Rodríguez
Preparing for the upgrade to vSphere 8.0
On the previous post we learnt what’s new on vSphere 8.0, Its time to get ready to upgrade our platform. vSphere 8.0 brings many new features but we need to take care of new requirements, supported hardware and deprecated OS. Let’s review all requirements and pre-requisites to be ready for the upgrade. Requirements Hardware Check …
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What´s New vSphere 8.0
vSphere 8.0 brings several new features and changes. If you want to have a look to the complete list see core.vmware.com/vmware-vsphere-8 There are five main pillars where vSphere 8.0 is focused: vSphere Distributed Services Engine One of the biggest inclusion in the new version are the compatibility hardware accelerated DPUs into vSphere, a way to …
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vSAN Performance Series – Hardware components (1/5)
In this series we are talking only about performance. Recomendations about configuration, availability or anything non-related with performance is not covered in this series. Today we start with a series of post about different performance aspects of vSAN. We will cover hardware, network, different configurations, IO behavior etc. If you have any suggestion or question …
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