One of the new enhancements of ControlUp 7.3 is vSAN monitoring support. ControlUp will detect the vSAN cluster(s), objects and displays real-time vSAN specific metrics and metadata. In this blog post I highlight the features of the new vSAN integration in ControlUp 7.3. Installation The vSAN …
Continue ReadingWhen using PCIE/NVMe SSDs in the capacity layer of Virtual SAN, the SSDs are generating a warning for the “Hardware Compatibility – SCSI Controller on Virtual SAN HCL” health check, even when the devices are on the Virtual SAN HCL. The “Hardware Compatibility - SCSI Controller on Virtual SAN …
Continue ReadingFor a new End User Computing (EUC) project I installed a Hybrid Virtual SAN (VSAN) configuration on HP Proliant server hardware. VSAN will be used as storage layer for VDIs. Each HP Proliant DL360 Gen9 server has the following components: HP Workload Accelerator as caching device HP Smart Array P440 …
Continue ReadingVMware has today announced VSAN. Here are some highlights from the Q&A session: VSAN will be GA at March 10 2014 vSphere 5.5 Update 1 will support VSAN GA Beta VSAN upgrades to the GA release are not supported VSAN is not a VSA. Performance is much better than any VSA Pricing and packaging will …
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