Month: September 2019

vSan force provisioning

Eknath -

I would like to brief here about one of the rules in vSan storage policy i.e., Force Provisioning, it may sound very easy, but at times can put the environment in trouble. Force provisioning is the rule which can be selected when creating a new storage policy as shown below: I

Power shell script to check dedup status

Eknath -

Deduplication and compression:  How to check if vSan cluster has dedup enabled, though there are many ways to check it, I would show two ways here: From vCenter GUI: Login to vCenter using web client or HTML client , navigate to cluster > Manage > settings > Virtual San > General Deduplication and Compression

Convert a vSan stretched cluster to 3 node and above

Eknath -

Stretched cluster to multi node vSan cluster    I assume most of you are aware about stretched cluster and how the component splits between the hosts/witness appliance. In this blog, I am going to walk you through the steps to convert a 2 vSan stretched cluster to a 3 node vSan cluster. What

Convert multi node vsan cluster to one node vsan cluster

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One node vSan cluster:    Have you tried building a one node vsan cluster ? or convert exiting multi node cluster to one node. Though its not recommended by VMware, it is possible to have one node vsan cluster but with limitations like no data protection as the single node cluster is