Recently I was engaged with a full vSphere migration for one of our customers (both hardware and software). We faced an issue getting Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) to work with the new PowerEdge R730 ESXi hosts. Let’s start with…
Greetings, Great news from DELLEMC for VSAN users today ! I have encountered several limitations in VSAN designs using DELLEMC Poweredge servers where using PERC H730 controllers will enable you to operate either in RAID0 or pass-through mode but not…
In this post, we are going to demonstrate the best practices regarding vSphere HA configuration on a vSAN-enabled cluster. Configuration Order vSAN and vSphere HA must be configured in a specific order: – vSAN must be enabled before vSphere HA…
In one of my VSAN design engagements, we have VSAN 6.6 ESXi nodes with 512GB RAM while ESXi is installed on internal SD-Cards. The customer is planning to scale up RAM to 1TB per host, and to scale over with…
I have been working on a VSAN design and deploy engagement for one of our customers, and we went up having some limitations and decisions that have to be taken into consideration especially with the device selection for ESXi boot,…
Recently, I have been engaged in multiple VSAN HCI projects designs. One of the most interesting decisions to take was the kind of boot devices that will hold the ESXi installation as this will introduce a bunch of discussions that…
Finally, VMware announced the list of vExperts for 2018 on the 9th of March. For me as a first timer, I was really honored and delighted to join such a community that is unlike any other in professional IT. Many…
For those of you who do not know vRealize Log Insight. It is a log collector and analyzer, with a pretty, simple and intuitive GUI. An easy way of managing logs and messages from all your datacenter devices. Best of…
Introduced in vSAN 6.1, stretched clusters can be used in environments where disaster and downtime avoidance is a key requirement. It protects virtual machines across data centers, not just racks. A stretched cluster extends across the following sites: Two active-active…
Introduction: Prior to vSphere 6.5, Windows Failover Cluster and Fault Tolerance (after it was improved to support 4 vCPU in vSphere 6.0) were two applicable methods to protect vCenter. These didn’t provide a real HA for vCenter as FT is…