Month: July 2016

Hyperconverge Battle Blogs Recap – Performance Test

Just a recap, these are some public materials, regarding VMware Virtual SAN vs competitor as Hyperconverge battle continues. VSAN vs Nutanix Head-to-Head Performance Testing — Part 1 https://blogs.vmware.com/storage/2015/06/03/vsan-vs-nutanix-head-head-performance-testing-part-1/ VSAN vs Nutanix Head-to-Head Performance Testing — Part 2 https://blogs.vmware.com/storage/2015/06/10/vsan-vs-nutanix-head-head-performance-testing-part-2/ VSAN vs Nutanix Head-to-Head Performance Testing — Part 3 https://blogs.vmware.com/storage/2015/06/12/vsan-vs-nutanix-head-head-testing-part-3/ VSAN vs. Nutanix — Head-to-Head Performance Testing — …

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VSAN Erasure Coding – Storage Based Policy Management

A new policy setting has been introduced to accommodate the new RAID-5/RAID-6 configurations in VSAN (only available in All-Flash configuration). Minimum 4 hosts will be required for RAID5, and minimum 6 hosts will be required for RAID6 configuration. This new policy setting is called Failure Tolerance Method. This policy setting takes two values: performance and capacity. When it is …

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