Questions tagged [vsan]

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How to combine disks from XEN-hosts into one storage?

We have 4 servers with XenServer 7.x installed. Each server has a large disk (6TB - raid10). How can I combine these disks in one big storage for sharing? This should be an analog of vSAN from VMware.
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EMC ScaleIO vs Starwind Virtual SAN

I'm setting a test lab to evaluate best solution for future production use. The production farm intended for an SMB, so budget is present, but it is also limited. Goal for production: 3 hyperconverged servers with Windows Server 2012 R2 failover…
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Hyper-V cluster migrations / vSAN software

We’re in the process of performing a large physical-layer upgrade with our hypervisors and I am looking for some advice regarding our proposed configuration and VSAN Software. To break things down, here’s a high-level view of our current working…
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Creating a VSAN datastore

I am trying to set up my first HA cluster and I have some hard time digging into VSAN datastores. I have two ESXi hosts both with two 480 SSD hard drives in RAID 1 Can I add the existing hosts' disks to VSAN datastore? As far as I know, the ESXi…
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Intermittent vSAN issue

I have a test lab deployment and am facing some issue in the first vSAN (4 nodes) creation (it works some times, and other times it doesn't) I'm trying to troubleshooting the issue as to when it doesn't work what is going on. Once I have added the…
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iscsi add a new storage machine to the san network and configure as one large disk

I have looked around so much but still couldn't find a practical working answer/example about adding a new storage machine to the iscsi san network and instead increase storage capacity. What I have found and done. I found steps on how to install…
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Unable to Read VSAN Datstore Items using powercli, it is returning UUIDs instead of Name

I'm trying to upload an ISO to VSAN datastore using Powercli. I want to check if there is a folder named ISO, if not, create and upload to that folder. For other DS Types (VMFS), I have not faced any issue. I was mounting the DS on a PSDrive using…