I’ve seen a few questions around this, is it possible, or supported, to use vSAN Datastore Sharing aka HCI Mesh to connect OSA with ESA? Or of course the other way around. I can be brief about this, no it is not supported and it isn’t possible either. vSAN HCI Mesh or Datastore Sharing uses the vSAN proprietary protocol called RDT. When using vSAN OSA...

I’ve had this question twice in about a week, which means that it is time to write a quick post. How do you stop vCLS VMs from running on a vSphere HA Failover Host? For those who don’t know, a vSphere HA Failover Host is a host which is used when a failure has occurred and vSphere HA needs to restart VMs. In some cases customers (but usually Cloud...

You may have noticed it already, but the Unexplored Territory Podcast kind of pivoted. Instead of having two co-hosts we recently decided to only have 1 host and a guest. We noticed that during our conversations with our guests things became a bit more challenging when there were multiple hosts, and we hope that this small tweak makes the content easier...

I had a meeting last week with a customer and a question came up around the minimum number of hosts a cluster requires in order to use. particular RAID configuration for vSAN. I created a table for the customer and a quick paragraph on how this works and figured I would share it here as well. With vSAN ESA VMware introduced a new feature called “Adaptive...

For episode 065 of the Unexplored Territory Podcast I invited Jatin Purohit to discuss Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, and what was introduced since we had Richard Garsthagen on as a guest. Jatin went over all the details, and shared some great use cases with us. Make sure to listen to the episode via your favorite podcast app, or the embedded player...

Holidays are coming, so we figured it was time to lower the price of the vSAN ESA 8.0 U1 book! Haven’t bought it yet? The paper edition is around $ 19.99 and the ebook is $ 4.99 (or less, depending on where you live). It’s a lot of great content for a really low price, and as said we made sure the ebook is priced extremely aggressively as we prefer...