So today I took awhile to sort out some FT-related questions. Some questions asked are... what does the 8 vCPU mean when someone purchases the vSphere Enterprise +? Does it mean the primary VM can be configured 8 vCPUs or does it mean both the Primary and the Secondary must be configured to a total …
Why vSphere Distributed Switch on vSAN?
For those who are not aware, vSphere Distributed Switch (or abbreviated as vDS) is included as part of the vSphere Enterprise Plus edition license. What exactly is a vDS? In some sense, the vSphere Distributed Switch is pretty similar to a vSphere Standard Switch (vSS). It provides the connectivity between your virtual machines and …
Introduction to vSAN Storage Policies
As mentioned in my previous vSAN post here, I talked about how important Storage Policies are when it comes to vSAN. Storage Policy-based Management, or SPBM for short is the secret sauce that binds everything together in vSAN today. With this, you will not need to go through the very manual and inefficient way of …
