Virtual SAN 6.2 Ops Guide

VMware Hyper-Converged Software transforms industry-standard x86 servers and directly attached storage into radically simple Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) to help eliminate high IT costs, management complexity, and performance limitations. VMware Hyper-Converged Software enables the lowest cost and highest performance HCI solutions available. The tightly integrated software stack includes VMware vSphere, the market-leading hypervisor; VMware Virtual SAN, radically simple, enterprise-class native storage; and VMware vCenter Server, a unified and extensible management solution.

Virtual SAN is natively integrated with vSphere and it is configured with just a few mouse clicks. Since disks internal to the vSphere hosts are used to create a Virtual SAN datastore, there is no dependency on external shared storage. Virtual machines can be assigned specific storage policies based on the needs of the applications. These workloads benefit from dependable shared storage with predictable performance and availability characteristics.

The new release of Virtual SAN, version 6.2, further reduces TCO by delivering up to 10x greater storage efficiency. Virtual SAN 6.2 is optimized for modern all-flash storage, delivering efficient near-line deduplication, compression, and erasure coding capabilities that enable high performance all-flash systems for as low as $1 per GB of usable capacity—up to 50% less than the cost of lower-performing hybrid solutions from the leading competition.

In this publication we will describe all the relevant procedures for Day 2 operations for Virtual SAN 6.2. We aim to update this material on an on-going basis, and we will incorporate any feedback and or requests we get as soon as possible. If you have any comments, feedback or simply have spotted a mistake or a type, make sure to click the grey "+" sign on the right side of the respective paragraph. We aim to make fixes within 48 hours.

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