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Efficiently Scale HCI with vSAN HCI Mesh

vSANVirtuallyWiredMarch 31, 20220

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has solved many challenges with complex cloud infrastructure deployments for IT businesses over the years. Combining virtualised storage, compute, network, and management into a unified system, offers simplified management, streamlined operations, scalability, security, and out-of-the-box infrastructure automation, delivering rapid scalability to meet business-critical demands. However, it can be challenging to right-size the…

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

GuidesVirtuallyWiredOctober 31, 20200

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…

vSAN Storage Policy Advanced Rules Report

ScriptsVirtuallyWiredDecember 15, 20193

Some time ago, I needed to audit all vSAN storage policies over multiple vCenter environments and confirm all the advanced policy rules were all set correctly. The process meant going through dozens of storage policies via the vSphere Web Client and documenting all the rules in a spreadsheet. This task was going to be tedious,…

PowerCLI Script to Download VM Screenshots from Datastore

ScriptsVirtuallyWiredOctober 14, 20190

Occasionally, you may need to download virtual machine files from the Datastore. For example, If vSphere HA resets virtual machines, there is a good chance just before it reset it, vSphere HA VM monitoring took a screenshot of the VM console, storing it with the VM configuration files on the Datastore. Reset by vSphere HA. Reason: VMware…

VSANTOP Command-Line Tool – New in vSAN 6.7 Update 3

MonitoringVirtuallyWiredSeptember 29, 20191

As a vSphere administrator, one of the most common tools I use for troubleshooting performance is ESXTOP, which I’m sure you’ve all heard of. Now with the release of vSphere 6.7 U3 and vSAN 6.7 U3, VMware has added a new VSANTOP command-line tool which runs on ESXi hosts to view real-time vSAN performance metrics….

vSAN Performance Monitor VMware Fling

MonitoringVirtuallyWiredAugust 23, 20195

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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