
Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
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Yellow Bricks is a personal Blog about virtualization(mostly VMware related) maintained by Duncan Epping.
Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
5M ago
At VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas I had many customer meetings. Last year my calendar was also swamped and one of the things we spend a lot of time on was explaining to customers where vSAN Max would fit into the picture. vSAN Max was originally positioned as a “storage only vSAN platform for ..read more
Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
8M ago
Last week I posted a blog about how to get vSAN Data Protection up and running, but I never explained why you may want to do this in the first place? Before we dive into it, it probably is smart to also mention that vSAN Data Protection leverages the new snapshotting capability which is part of the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (vSAN ESA). vSAN ESA has a snapshotting capability that infinitely…
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Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
8M ago
The first time I deployed vSphere/vSAN 8.0 U3 I immediately looked for the vSAN Data Protection UI. I always get excited about new features, and simply want to test it. I mean who doesn’t like scalable snapshots and a great way of managing snapshot schedules? Finally available within the vSphere Client! Of course, I could not find it, but I figured that was because I was on some weird alpha build…
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Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
8M ago
Last week I received a question about vSAN Stretched which had me wondering for a while what on earth was going on. The person who asked this question was running through several failure scenarios, some of which I have also documented in the past here. The question I got is what is supposed to happen when I have the following scenario as shown in the diagram and the link between the preferred site…
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Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
8M ago
I’ve been doing this for as long as I can remember, creating a list of my personal favorite sessions for our yearly event, VMware Explore. Of course, I created one for 2024 in Las Vegas as well. Typically these are the sessions I am going to try to attend personally, that is if they are not full. Yes, the list is focussed on areas I am interested in, and is not necessarily a representation of the…
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Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
8M ago
Recently I presented a keynote at the Belgium VMUG, the topic was Innovation at VMware by Broadcom, but I guess I should say Innovation at Broadcom to be more accurate. During the keynote I briefly went over the process and the various types of innovation and what this can lead to. During the session, I discussed three projects, namely vSAN ESA, the Distributed Services Engine…
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Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
9M ago
About 7-8 months ago I shared with you that I would be participating in the ROPA RUN for charity. As explained, the ROPA RUN is a charity relay running event where you start near Paris and run back to Rotterdam. Each team that participates has 8 runners which are divided in 2 groups, and each group runs 4-5 hrs in a relay fashion. Last weekend I participated in the event, and what an experience…
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Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
11M ago
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 a different version is used of RDT than with…
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Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
11M ago
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 partners) want to prevent the use of these hosts…
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Yellow Bricks - Duncan Epping
1y ago
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 to digest for you (the listener) as well.
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