Understanding the vSAN Witness Appliance – Cluster Membership, Versioning, and Hosting
by The vSAN Witness Appliance virtual machine provides a virtualized ESXi host that acts as a tie breaker for vSAN Stretched Cluster and 2 Node configurations. …
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Secure by Default – Why did it take something like GDPR to do this?
I look at Twitter, and see everyone talking about the massive amounts of emails surrounding the changes companies are having to make as a result …
Understanding vSAN Encryption – KMS Server Accessibility
vSAN 6.6 introduced data at rest encryption as a new feature that provides another choice (in addition to VM Encryption introduced in vSphere 6.5) for …
Understanding the vSAN Witness Host – Traffic Tagging
With 2 Node and Stretched Cluster vSAN, a vSAN Witness Host is used. This can be a physical vSphere host or a VMware provided virtual …
Sample 2 Node vSAN Deployment Script
A couple months back, I published a YouTube video of my deploying/setting up a 2 Node vSAN cluster with nothing but PowerCLI. It got a …