Monthly Archive: June 2023

State of Disaggregated HCI (HCI Mesh)-vSAN 8 U1

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 better understanding of this...

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 the previous releases for...

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 as Stuck-IO, Congestion, slow/no...