State of Disaggregated HCI (HCI Mesh)-vSAN 8 U1
admin Introduction I have already talked about HCI Mesh (dHCI) when it was first launched with vSAN 7.0 U1 here, I would encourage you to read thru my previous blog for…
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Large Write Buffer for vSAN 8 OSA Architecture
Introduction In vSAN 8.0, VMware vSAN introduced support for “Large Write Buffer”(LWB) cache disk size of upto 1.6TB can be used with OSA architecture. Although larger disks were supported in…
Native vSAN Trace Object
vSANTraces are generally used to troubleshoot and debug critical performance issues in vSAN(OSA and ESA) and also in some cases they are used to troubleshoot vSAN data-path related problems such…
vSAN-ESA SPBM and Compoment placements
Introduction vSAN-ESA has introduced this concept of Storage Pools where all the disks in a given storage-pool contributes towards total capacity available for consumption. This initial release of vSAN ESA…
vSAN ESA – Log Structured File System
I have already briefly talked about vSAN-ESA’s Log Structured File System(LFS) in my previous blog, it advised to go over it once before you continue reading here. This blog talks…