Charles Chow 8/6/18 Charles Chow 8/6/18

Failure Scenarios for vSAN

Had a question recently around the failure scenarios in vSAN. FTT=1 or 2 is great when the cluster is not large, but what if the cluster size increases? Should the FTT tolerance increase accordingly?

Charles Chow 7/12/18 Charles Chow 7/12/18

vSAN Is Lost Without vCenter, or Is It?

There were some confusion from partners and customers that vSAN will fail if vCenter is down. So is it really?

Charles Chow 6/13/18 Charles Chow 6/13/18

Support Me, Support Me Not...

Many vendors are making claims about support on platforms easily these days. Some legit, some with caveats. Let’s discuss what this all means

Charles Chow 5/29/18 Charles Chow 5/29/18

60 Minutes - vSAN says "Mai Kan Cheong"

I'm pretty sure I would be (very) rich if I had a dollar every time I had to answer (FUD's) why we have a delay of 60 minutes before we repair a failed disk on vSAN.

Charles Chow 5/24/18 Charles Chow 5/24/18

Slacking Away on vSAN

Have been getting a lot of questions around slack space in recent times and how it affects sizing. Some competitors have taken advantage of the confusion and started classifying it as "overheads" to operate vSAN, and putting us down for it.

Charles Chow 5/6/18 Charles Chow 5/6/18

New vSAN 6.7 Demo Clips

I was helping the team prepare some clips this week for a workshop we were doing in the office. Thought it would be a good idea to share it on YouTube for those who may be interested in the new workflow on the HTML5 Clarity UI for vSAN.