What’s new with vSAN Data Protection (Snap Service Appliance)

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 07:41:33 +0000

In this blog I will be walking through the basics of vSAN Data Protection and its deployment.

What is vSAN Data Protection?

With introduction of vSAN ESA 8.0 U3 VMware by Broadcom also announced vSAN Data Protection. vSAN Data Protection is a feature which is deployed through an OVF appliance that gives you additional local protection to your virtual machines running on vSAN ESA clusters with the help of native snapshots which were already supported in vSAN ESA.

Why and How to Deploy vSAN HCI Bench for vSAN?

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 09:03:23 +0000

After you setup a new vSAN/VxRAIL/VxRACK HCI deployment , you will definitely need to benchmark your cluster before moving it to production . Here is your small guide to “vSAN Performance Benchmark” using a famous useful tool called HCI Bench which is freely available on VMware Labs website .

You may be wondering what is the recommended and correct way to test the performance and review performance on a hyper-converged infrastructure .

If you have not gone thru my previous posts about understanding-vm-storage-policies and understanding-vsan-component-placement-sizing I highly encourage you to go thru that topic which will give you a deep insight on how components are created , placed and how we can view them .

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What’s new with vSAN Data Protection (Snap Service Appliance)

What is vSAN Data Protection?

Why and How to Deploy vSAN HCI Bench for vSAN?