Convert Thick-Provisioned VMs to Thin on vSAN and Reclaim Storage

In this post, I’ll explain how easy and non-distrustfully it is to convert Thick disks to Thin on vSAN. Firstly you should understand that objects on vSAN are all thinly provisioned by default and there is no real concept of Thick disks. Instead, vSAN has the concept of Space Reservation, defined by the Storage-Policy ruleset Object…

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vSAN Performance Monitor VMware Fling

In this post, I demonstrate the VMware Fling “vSAN Performance Monitor” in my home lab. It’s a neatly packaged up virtual appliance which collects and visualises vSAN performance metrics data with a pre-configured Grafana dashboard which is highly inspired by vSAN observer.

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