Day: September 11, 2019

Object Space Reservation

Eknath -

If you are familiar with thin vs thick provisioning disk, this post will help you understand much easier about the OSR (Object Space Reservation). By default, virtual machine storage objects deployed on vSAN are thin provisioned.  OSR is one of the storage policy, that specifies the percentage of the logical size

Disk Stripes in vSAN

Eknath -

Striping is not a new word in storage world. In vSan, Striping splits the data of a given object into multiple stripes (drives), also known as segments but not necessarily multiple hosts. Each stripe is accessed simultaneously, potentially increasing performance in hybrid configurations. vSAN allows for up to 12-way striping although 1

Failures to Tolerate (FTT)

Eknath -

FTT is familiar name when working on vSAN and I consider this as most important policy when designing a vSan cluster. In this post, I am going to quickly walk you through the use of this policy and how it works.. The Number of Failures to Tolerate capability addresses the key