VMware vSAN - A Closer Look [Part 7 - Monitoring and Reporting

VMware vSAN - A Closer Look [Part 7 - Monitoring and Reporting

In the final part of this series covering vSAN I’ll cover some of the features available to monitor capacity, performance and the health of the vSAN cluster.

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VMware vSAN - A Closer Look [Part 5 - Failure Events]

VMware vSAN - A Closer Look [Part 5 - Failure Events]

So far I’ve covered the various methods vSAN uses to protect data within a cluster and even across sites. In this post I will look at how vSAN handles failures and the processes involved to recover data to ensure the virtual machines redundancy requirements are met.

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VMware vSAN - A closer look [Part 3 -Data Availabilty]

VMware vSAN - A closer look [Part 3 -Data Availabilty]

Now I’ve covered the high-level architecture of vSAN it’s time to look at how the data is structured within the vSAN datastore and how vSAN uses multiple hosts within a cluster to provide data redundancy. Not forgetting one of the biggest benefits with vSAN - this is all configured using policies that are configured at the software layer.

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VMware vSAN - A closer look [Part 2 - Architecture and Hardware]

VMware vSAN - A closer look [Part 2 - Architecture and Hardware]

This post will cover vSAN architecture at a high level along with network recommendations and requirements to support vSAN. Finally, I’ll cover some of the hardware recommendations to ensure a vSAN deployment is successful.

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VMware vSAN - A closer Look [Part 1 - Introducing and licensing]

VMware vSAN - A closer Look [Part 1 - Introducing and licensing]

Whilst many of our customers have a good high-level understanding of vSAN this series of blog posts will cover some of the concepts in further detail and hopefully help answer some of the typical questions I get asked.

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[VIDEO] Nimble Storage OS4, Cloud Volumes and much more

[VIDEO] Nimble Storage OS4, Cloud Volumes and much more

I had the opportunity to catch up with Nimble Storage's Nick Dyer, we spoke about changes in the industry, Nimble's latest firmware release and functionality as well as they recently announced cloud volumes technology. 

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