vSAN Archives - Kyle McDonald

Replacing a failed vSAN cache drive

Posted on 2020/02/29 by Kyle McDonald — No Comments ↓

My home lab has been running with primary storage provided via an all-flash implementation of VMware vSAN for almost 4 years now. The underlying drives are consumer-grade Samsung 850 EVO 120gb (cache) and 500gb (capacity) SSD drives. Six months ago, Continue reading Replacing a failed vSAN cache drive→

vSAN and memory usage alerts for home labs

Posted on 2019/01/01 by Kyle McDonald — No Comments ↓

After using NFS-based storage in my home lab for a number of years, I wanted to try out vSAN. This was to play with the technology itself, as well as to make my storage a little faster where needed for Continue reading vSAN and memory usage alerts for home labs→