Tag: vsan
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VCF 9.x Pre-Installation Checklist: What to Verify Before You Start the VCF Installer
A pre-check list for a fresh VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x management domain deployment (9.0 and 9.1), with the command to run for each item plus MTU-per-traffic and password requirement tables.
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VCF 9 Stretched Clusters and Multi-Site Design: Topology, Witness and the Latency Budget (VCF 9 Series, Part 30)
A reference design for stretching VMware Cloud Foundation 9 across two sites: vSAN site awareness, witness placement, the 5ms latency budget, storage policy, and when a single stretched instance beats multi-instance federation.
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Bringing Existing vSAN and NSX Under VCF 9: The Brownfield Import Requirements (VCF 9 Series, Part 14)
The VCF 9 import workflow brings an existing vCenter, vSAN and NSX in as a workload domain, but it switches on the Distributed Firewall and trips over ELM, standard switches and baselines. Here is what actually breaks in the field and how to get ahead of it.
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vSAN ESA vs OSA in VCF 9: Storage Design and When to Choose Which (VCF 9 Series, Part 6)
vSAN ESA vs OSA in VCF 9: single-tier all-NVMe versus two-tier disk groups, the resilience math, the lowered hardware minimums, and a clear verdict on which to choose.
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VCF 9 Licensing Explained: Core Counting, the vSAN TiB Entitlement and 5 Costly Mistakes (VCF 9 Series, Part 3)
VCF 9 licensing looks simple but bites at design time: the 16-core-per-CPU floor, the 1 TiB-per-core vSAN entitlement, and the move of production load balancing to Avi. Five mistakes, with the numbers behind each.
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Learn vSAN Basics – Video Series by Alver
Need to brush up on the vSAN basics? Get back to basics with Alver! Learn about Storage Policy-Based Policy in the vSAN 100 Series. vSAN Basics Video Series with Alver
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VMware Cloud Foundation
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About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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