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vSAN Witness Appliance 9.0
You have probably run into the same problem I did: a freshly deployed 9.0 Witness Appliance that ignores its configuration and reports an expired licence.
2025-09-15 · posts/how-to-vsan-witness-9-0.md · 187 words · 1 min · daniel-stadelmann
vSAN Data Protection
vSAN 8 Update 3 brought the Data Protection feature, which closes the last gap against conventional block storage. You can now snapshot workloads on production storage directly.
2025-03-13 · posts/vsan-data-protection.md · 281 words · 1 min · daniel-stadelmann
vSAN Snapshot Service Appliance for vSAN Data Protection
VMware released with vSAN 8 Update 3 the data protection feature which enables based on the tremendous power of ESA's snapshotting engine an all new levels of data protection and agility.
2025-02-19 · posts/how-to-deploy-vsan-snapshot-service-appliance.md · 430 words · 2 min · daniel-stadelmann
Storage performance testing with vdbench
IOmeter is quick, but its data patterns do not suit a modern storage array. vdbench is the better tool, and this is how to configure it.
2024-05-21 · posts/how-to-storage-performance-test-mit-vdbench.md · 2195 words · 11 min · patrick-pletscher
Storage performance testing with IOmeter
Every successful storage project ends with a storage performance test during system acceptance, checking the array, the storage area network and the hosts.
2024-02-12 · posts/storage-performance-test-mit-iometer.md · 608 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
iSCSI Datastore Not Consumed
On a customer project running current vSphere 8.0 U2, some hosts recognised their iSCSI devices but reported them as “not consumed”, so the ESXi host saw no iSCSI datastores at all.
2024-01-24 · posts/iscsi-datastore-not-consumed.md · 245 words · 1 min · dario-doerflinger
RAID controllers
If you have configured an HPE ProLiant server, you have almost certainly met a Smart Array or SmartRAID controller. Since Gen10 there is another option: the MegaRAID controllers.
2023-03-13 · posts/raid-controller.md · 640 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
HCI with StorMagic
StorMagic SvSAN is a software-defined storage solution that suits small virtualisation environments with two nodes, turning the SSDs, disks and memory of two servers into a virtual SAN.
2022-08-18 · posts/hci-mit-stormagic.md · 705 words · 4 min · patrick-pletscher
How to skip vSAN HCL Checks for ESXi Upgrades
A short blog about how one can disable vSAN HCL Checks in VCF SDDC manager.
2021-10-08 · posts/vmware-cloud-foundation-how-to-skip-vsan-hcl-checks-for-esxi-upgrades.md · 417 words · 2 min · dario-doerflinger
Setting up a greenfield vSAN cluster on 6.5 Update 1
Recently I had the pleasure of doing a vSAN project for one of our customers. The project scale was very small but nonetheless very interesting.
2017-09-07 · posts/setting-up-a-greenfield-vsan-cluster-on-6-5-update-1.md · 423 words · 2 min · dario-doerflinger
Tips and Tricks for vSAN troubleshooting
Today I attended a Web-Session from VMware with the topic vSAN troubleshooting tips and tricks and I wanted to share those tips and tricks with you.
2017-07-27 · posts/tips-and-tricks-for-vsan-troubleshooting.md · 602 words · 3 min · dario-doerflinger