Awesome vSAN - A Community List of AWESOME VMware vSAN Resources
#AwesomevSAN - by @homelaber
Last Update: 2019-04-10
A curated list of AWESOME VMware vSAN Resources create by the community to the community.
Index:
- vSAN Product info (VMware Official)
- Documentation
- Downloads
- vSAN Versions Release Notes
- vSAN End Of Support
- VMware Flings - vSAN
- Quick Tips
- Tools
- VxRail
- vSAN on VMware {Code}
- vSAN Home Labs
- vSAN Hands-ON Labs (HOL)
- Virtually Speaking Podcast Episodes (vSAN)
- vSAN Blogs
- vSAN Blogs Series
- vSAN Twitter List
- vExperts vSAN
- vSAN Books
- vSAN Youtube Channels / Videos
- VMworld 2018 - vSAN Presentations & Videos
- Misc
- How to contribute
- Special Thanks
- Disclaimer
- Update Log
- ToDo
vSAN Product info (VMware Official)
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Product Page - https://www.vmware.com/products/vsan.html - English
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Product Page - https://www.vmware.com/br/products/vsan.html - Brazilian Portuguese
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Product Page - https://www.vmware.com/es/products/vsan.html - Spanish
Documentation
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Official vSAN Documentation - https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSAN/index.html
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Technical references - https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/
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Storage Hub - https://storagehub.vmware.com/
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VMware Knowledge Base (KB) - vSAN
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VMTN Community - https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsan/overview
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vSAN Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQ1cSf37ags3wnn9XEOC6Q
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vSAN HCL - https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=vsan
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vSAN Quick Hardware Reference Guide - https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/vsan_profile.html?locale=en
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vSAN Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/vmwarevsan
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vSAN 6.7 Licensing Guide - https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-67-licensing-guide.pdf
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Compare vSAN Editions and Features - https://www.vmware.com/products/vsan.html#compare
Downloads
- Download VMware vSAN - vSAN Product Evaluation - https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=vsan-6
I strongly recommend you to buy a subscription of VMUG EvalExperience to get you hands on VMware software bits including vSAN
- VMUG EVALExperience - https://www.vmug.com/Join/EVALExperience
vSAN Versions Release Notes
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- VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 1 Release Notes
- VMware vSAN 6.7 Release Notes
- VMware vSAN 6.6.1 Release Notes
- VMware vSAN 6.6 Release Notes
- VMware Virtual SAN 6.5 Release Notes
- VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Release Notes
- VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 Release Notes
- VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Release Notes
vSAN End Of Support
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| PRODUCT RELEASE | GENERAL AVAILABILITY | END OF GENERAL SUPPORT | END OF TECHNICAL GUIDANCE |
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| vSAN 5.5 | 2014/03/11 | 2018/09/19 | 2020/09/19 |
| vSAN 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 | 2015/03/12 | 2020/03/12 | 2022/03/12 |
| vSAN 6.5, 6.6 and 6.7 | 2016/11/15 | 2021/11/15 | 2023/11/15 |
VMware Flings - vSAN
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HCIBench Updated on April 04, 2019
HCIBench 2.0 highlights:
- Added fio as an alternative workload generator
- Added Grafana for workload live monitoring
- Switched UI to clarity
- Allow user to select one to four cases while using easy-run
- Bug fixes hopefully without introducing new bugs
Quick Tips
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- Dell VSAN Ready Node: What is the Default VMWare ESXi Root password for 14G Servers? by @DellAjudaPRO
Tools
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vsanmetrics by Erwan Quélin @erwanquelin
vsanmetrics is a tool written in Python for collecting usage and performance metrics and health status from a VMware vSAN cluster and translating them in InfluxDB's line protocol. It can be useful to send metrics in a time-serie database like InfluxDB or Graphite with the help of Telegraf and then display metrics in Grafana.
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vSAN Snippets: Reporting Drive Location & More by Jase McCarty - @jasemccarty https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2019/03/22/vsan-snippets-reporting-drive-location/
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vSAN HCL Viewer Tool by @HaraldRuppert - Source Code Thanks Andrey Timofeev
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vDocumentation by @arielsanchezmor @edmsanchez13 @jpsider Thanks Grahan Barker
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sexigraf by Raphael Schitz @hypervisor_fr and Frédéric Martin @vmdude_fr
SexiGraf is a fully open-source vSphere centric Graphite VMware appliance with a Grafana frontend. It pulls VI and VSAN metrics from VMware vCenter APIs, push them to Graphite and let Grafana produces the gorgeous dashboards we love so much!
VxRail
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Powered by VMware vSAN and Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, VxRail is the only fully integrated, pre-configured, and pre-tested VMware hyperconverged appliance on the market. VxRail transforms HCI networking and simplifies VMware cloud adoption, while meeting any HCI use case, including support for the most demanding workloads and applications.
vSAN on VMware {Code}
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vSAN API
vSAN SDK
- vSAN Management SDK for Java - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-java
- vSAN Management SDK for .NET - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-dotnet
- vSAN Management SDK for Perl - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-perl
- vSAN Management SDK for Python - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-python
- vSAN Management SDK for Ruby - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-ruby
PowerCLI Cookbook
VMware Sample Exchange - vSAN - @ VMware {Code}
vSAN Home Labs
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VMware vSphere 6.7 – Despliegue de tres host ESXi 6.7 y despliegue desde cero de vSAN 6.7 de manera nested (Spanish) by @jorgedlcruz
vSAN Hands-ON Labs (HOL)
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HOL-1908-01-HCI - vSAN v6.7 - Getting Started vSAN delivers flash-optimized, secure shared storage with the simplicity of a VMware vSphere-native experience for all of your critical virtualized workloads. https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/4687
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HOL-1908-02-CHG - vSAN v6.7 - Challenge Lab vSAN is "radically simple" to setup and get going, but how about configuring it for advanced use cases or troubleshooting performance and availability issues? You will be challenged to scale-out a vSAN cluster and to recover from misconfiguration issues. https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/4688
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HOL-1908-91-HCI - vSAN 6.7 Lightning Lab Lightning Labs are an easy way to learn about VMware products in as little as 30 minutes. https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/5418
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HOL-1945-01-SLN - Modernizing Data Centers for Business Transformation Modernizing your Data Center allows you to keep up with the new pace of business innovation. This lab is available in English, Português https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/4669
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HOL-1983-02-HBD - VMware Cloud Partner Program - Tools and Offerings Configure VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers with VMware NSX, VMware vSAN, VMware vRealize Operations, VMware vRealize Log Insight, VMware vRealize Orchestrator, and VMware vCloud Usage Meter. https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/4671
Virtually Speaking Podcast Episodes (vSAN)
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The State of vSAN
http://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/episodes/107 - Mar 1, 2019 • 41 minutes
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Free vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive eBook
http://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/episodes/105 - Jan 28, 2019 • 1 minute
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Elastic vSAN
http://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/episodes/104 - Jan 25, 2019 • 37 minutes
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vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive
http://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/episodes/101 - Jan 11, 2019 • 35 minutes
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All episodes
vSAN Blogs
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- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/
- http://www.cormachogan.com/
- http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/
- http://www.virtu-al.net/?s=vsan
- http://thenicholson.com/
- https://storagemojo.com/
- http://storagegaga.com/
- http://silvertonconsulting.com/blog/
- https://www.penguinpunk.net/blog/
- https://digitalirl.com/
- http://www.dcig.com/blog
- http://www.datacenterdude.com/
- https://d8tadude.com/
- https://www.chriscolotti.us/
- http://www.50mu.net/
- https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/
- http://virtuallysensei.com/
- https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/category/virtualization/vmware/vsan/
- http://vsphere-land.com/vsphere-links/vsan-links.html (Collection of old vSAN links by ) @ericsiebert
- https://vmiss.net/2018/04/05/the-cheap-and-easy-way-to-get-started-with-vmware-vsan/ (The Cheap and Easy Way to Get Started with VMware vSAN by) @vmiss33
vSAN Blogs in Spanish
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vSAN related posts @ VMware LATAM Blog https://blogs.vmware.com/latam/vsan
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Consideraciones para ejecutar cargas de trabajo de Microsoft SQL en VMware vSAN by @costaricavmug
vSAN Blogs in Portuguese
vSAN Blogs in Non-English Languages
German
- Virtually Fabian by @fabianwiese - http://fabianwiese.de/category/vsan/ - German
vSAN Blogs Series
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- vSAN 6.7U1 Health Checks Explained by Harikrishnan - @hari5611
- Part 1 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/01/30/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-1/
- Part 2 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-2/
- Part 3 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-3/
- Part 4 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-4/
- Part 5 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-5/
vSAN Twitter List
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vSAN People you should follow on Twitter
vSAN Chat
https://twitter.com/hashtag/vsanchat?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash
vSAN Who To Follow by Diego Flaborea
https://twitter.com/flaborea/lists/vsan-who-to-follow
VMware vSAN @vmwarevsan - Twitter Official VMware vSAN is a software-defined, enterprise storage solution powering industry-leading hyperconverged infrastructure systems. #vSANChat
Captain vSAN @CaptainVSAN It is clobbering time... FUD Fighting, Knowledge Spreading, vSAN Super Hero!
Duncan Epping @DuncanYB Chief Technologist Hyperconverged Infrastructure @VMware, focus on Edge and Hybrid Cloud. Author of http://Yellow-Bricks.com , vSAN and Clustering Deep dive books
Cormac Hogan @CormacJHogan Office of the CTO, Storage and Availability BU at VMware. Author and Blogger.
John Nicholson @Lost_Signal vExpert 2013-2016, Veeam Vanguard. Technical Marketing VSAN @ VMware - Storage and Availability. vSpeaking Podcast - tweets are my own
Pete Flecha @vPedroArrow Technical Marketing for VMware's Storage and Availability products. Host of the vSpeaking Podcast @virtspeaking vExpert 2014-2019 | Veeam Vanguard
Yanbing Li @ybhighheels High Tech Girl in High Heels, SVP/GM Storage and Availability @VMware, Mom of 3. Determined to have a positive outlook on life.
Ron Singler @rsingler_ Director of Technology, Storage & Availability @VMware - My views/opinions are my own…
Christos Karamanolis @XtosK Fellow @VMware. CTO, Storage & Availability. VSAN architect. Building software products, not just technologies. Opinions are mine.
Josh Fidel @jcefidel Global Senior Systems Engineer, #HCI, #vSAN at VMware. #VCP #EMCIE #EMCISAv2 #MCSE #CCA #CEH #vbeard #CreativeSavage. All tweets poorly formed opinion only.
Tony Reeves @importcarguy Christian, Husband, Father, Virtualization geek, VCP5-6.5DCV, 3x #vExpert & #vSANvExpert @WIVMUG Leader, Co-host of the @vGigacast, Tech Field Day delegate
Luciano Patrão @Luciano_PT Blogger, vExpert 4*, VCP6.5- DCV, vSAN Specialist 2*, Veeam Vanguard, TechLead Virtualization & Storage, ICT Senior Infrastructure Engineer. Backups specialist.
Tyler Gates @TSGates_ SE @vmware || Co-Host @S3Vops || Passionate about HCI, data center automation, & transforming business processes || Brewer, Maker, & 3D Printer || Go Build!
Aaron Buley
@aaronbuley
Global Director, @VMware HCI Engineering @DellEMC for @VxRail (#VxSEALs) | #BuleyStrong Cancer Survivor | Dad⁴ | YouTuber (link below
Ken Werneburg @vmKen Group Manager of Technical Marketing for VMware's storage and availability products.
Pete Koehler @vmpete Tech Marketing | Storage & Availability BU @ VMware. All comments mine. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pekoehler
Dave Morera
Darin Zook @darinzook Christian | Husband | Father | Sr. SE vSAN/HCI @VMware - Tweets are my own. #vExpert
Jeff Hunter (vmware) @jhuntervmware VMware Group Manager, #vSAN Technical Marketing. Christ follower. Husband. Dad. Jeep owner. Tweets are mine, not the official position of my employer.
Myles Gray @mylesagray Sr. Technical Marketing Architect @VMware. Writes https://blah.cloud . All things networking and storage.
Jason Massae @jbmassae @VMware, vSAN vExpert, vExpert, Christian, Family man, Scout Leader, Maker. All-Flash vSAN Pioneer, Tweets are mine
Lee Caswell @leecaswell Storage enthusiast, VMware Exec, classical trumpeter, table tennis threat, all tweets my own
Jase McCarty @jasemccarty TM @VMware. HCI/storage/code. Engineer/Architect & @usairforce MSgt (Ret)- Cyber Systems/ Maintainer - Christian/Husband/Dad/@Jeep-er. Life is a Big Yellow Taxi
Paul Braren @paulbraren Dad. VMware Sr. Systems Engineer, vSAN/HCI. vExpert. All views my own. Founded TinkerTry IT @ home: efficient virtualization, storage, backup, & more...
Myles Gray @mylesagray Sr. Technical Marketing Architect @VMware. Writes https://blah.cloud . All things networking and storage.
Glenn Sizemore @glnsize Technical Marketing for VMware's Storage and Availability products. All things Storage in VMware Cloud on AWS. tweets are my own.
Ron Scott-Adams @Tohuw Christian. Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Storage & Availability @VMware. @vExpert. Devout optimistic curmudgeon. Views are mine alone.
Luigi Danakos @NerdBlurt I have a lot of interests but mainly Tech, Video games and stuff to do w/my Family. #vExpert Work doing Social Media Marketing & Host of TechStandup Podcast
Erwan Quélin @erwanquelin Build stuff and then fix issues... @OVH #VMware #vExpert #Dev #Automation
Mr vSAN @MR__vSAN
Hareesh K G | vExpert @virtuallySensei Technical Support Engineer-II at VMware |vExpert 2018 | VCAP-6/5.5 DCV| vSAN-specialist |Blogger at http://virtuallySensei.com
Harikrishnan T @hari5611 Systems Development Engineer @ #DellEMC R&D. VMware #vExpert 2019, #CiscoChampion 2019, Vmware VTSP-Network Virtualization, HCI & vCloud Foundation.
Brandon Lee @vspinmaster vExpert 2018, IT Pro for 20+ Years, Virtualization enthusiast, geek, home labber, father
Harald Ruppert @HaraldRuppert vSAN Escalation Engineer @vmwarecork. May contain non-work related posts. All tweets are my own
Alan Renouf @alanrenouf Sr Product Line Manager for XR (VR/AR/MR) at VMware
Ricardo Conzatti @RicardoConzatti vExpert, VCAP6-DCV, VCP5/6/6.5-DCV, VCP6/7-CMA, MCSE, @vBrownBagBrasil host, @vmugpr and @vugbrasil leader #vExpert #Blogger #VMUG #vCommunity #ScriptLover
Fabian Wiese @FabianWiese Senior HCI Specialist SE @VMware | VCP-DCV | VCAP-DCD | vSAN Specialist | vExpert 2019 | Tweets are my own
vExperts vSAN
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List of vExperts on the vExpert vSAN Subprogram.
https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory
vSAN Books
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- vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive book
- Essential VSAN
- vSAN Essentials 6.2 by @cormacjhogan and @duncanyb on gitbooks.io
vSAN Youtube Channels / Videos
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- VMware vSAN Youtube Channel
- Introduction to VMware vSAN
- VMworld 2017 - vSAN Playlist by @duncanyb
- Introdução VMware vSAN - PT-BR by John Costa
- Tech Stand Up Episode 20 – Getting Started with VMware vSAN for Free by Luigi Danakos @nerdBlurt
- vBrownBag vSAN videos @vBrownBag
VMworld 2018 - vSAN Presentations & Videos
VMworld US
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| HCI1338BU | vSAN: An Ideal Storage Platform for Kubernetes-controlled Cloud-Native Apps | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1145BU | Why VMware vSAN Is the Best Solution for Cloud Provider Environments | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1998BU | Enable High-Capacity Workloads with Elastic EBS-Backed vSAN on VMware Cloud | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1099BU | Real-World Deployment Considerations with vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1246BU | Optimizing vSAN for Performance | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1272BU | vSAN Data Placement and Availability | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1330BU | Enabling Microsoft Failover Clustering with vSAN iSCSI Service | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1468BU | Building a Business Case for HCI and VMware vSAN | NO Stream POSTED | NO DOWNLOAD POSTED | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1469BU | The Future of vSAN and Hyperconverged Infrastructure | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1473BU | The vSAN I/O Path Deconstructed: A Deep Dive into the Internals of vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1475QU | Demystifying vSAN Management for the Traditional Storage Administrator | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1476BU | Mixed-Workload Versus Single-Purpose vSAN Clusters | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1477BU | New Ways to Use vRealize Operations and Log Insight for vSAN Environments | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1552BU | Deploying vSAN to 300 Stores in 2 Weeks: An Automation Story | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1583BU | vSAN Myth Busters: Busting the Common Misconceptions About vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1603BU | Tech Preview of vSAN Data Protection: Safeguarding VM Data on vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1615PU | vSAN Technical Customer Panel on vSAN Experiences | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1691BU | Architecting at the Tactical Edge with VMware vSAN and vRealize | NO Stream POSTED | NO DOWNLOAD POSTED | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1768BU | What's New in vSAN: Technical Deep Dive | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1769BU | We Got You Covered: Top Operational Tips from vSAN Support Insight | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1960BU | Why HCI Solutions Powered by vSAN Work Best for Your vSphere Environments | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI1993BU | vSAN Technical Deep Dive | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2001BU | Best Practices for Deploying DataStax Workloads using vSAN Host Affinity | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2019BU | Running SAP HANA on HCI Powered by vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2032BU | Successful vSAN for Remote Offices and Branch Offices | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2038BU | Best Practices for Deploying Hadoop Workloads on HCI Powered by vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2040BU | vSAN Deployment Topology and Availability Deep Dive: What You Need to Know | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2041BU | vSAN Encryption Deep Dive | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2061BU | Forget Click, Click, Click: Manage vSAN at Scale with PowerCLI | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2088BU | vSAN Stretched Clusters Technical Deep Dive | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2110BU | Top Reasons Why vSAN Is the Best Hyper-Converged Solution | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2180BU | vSAN Support Insight: Inside Out | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2208BU | vSAN Hardware Guidance on Performance and Configuration | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2427BU | Managing vSAN Resiliency and Performance at Scale | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2476BU | Tech Preview: RDMA and Next-Gen Storage Technologies for vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2501BU | Accelerating Digital Transformation with InterSystems IRIS and vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2513QU | Using vSAN Native Data Protection in the Real World | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2522BU | Getting Started with vSAN Automation | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2617BU | Best Practices for Deploying Business-Critical Oracle Workloads on vSAN HCI | NO Stream POSTED | NO DOWNLOAD POSTED | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2681BU | The Latest and Greatest with VMware vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2736BU | Lessons Learned from Real-World vSAN Operations | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2909QU | VMs on vSAN - An end to end view | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI2993BU | The Story of How Deloitte Migrated to vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI3000BU | Extreme Performance Series: How To Estimate vSAN Performance | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI3041BU | Introducing Scalable File Storage on vSAN with Native File Services | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI3104BU | vSAN Hosted POC: The Smoothest and Fastest Way to Test vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI3149BU | Conquer Your Storage Demands with vSAN and Intel Technologies | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI3291BU | vSAN: Data Placement Deep Dive | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI3452BU | Achieving a GDPR-Ready Architecture Leveraging VMware vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| HCI3697BUS | Enhance your vSphere and vSAN implementations w/ Persistent Memory and SSDs | NO Stream POSTED | NO DOWNLOAD POSTED | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI3819QU | Get the Edge on vSAN Innovating Hyper-Converged Infrastructure | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | |
| WIN3450BU | Best Practices for Deploying Horizon on vSAN and VxRail | STREAM | DOWNLOAD |
VMworld Europe
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| HCI2208BE | vSAN Hardware Guidance on Performance and Configuration | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HYP3286BE | Enabling High Capacity Workloads with Elastic EBS-backed vSAN on VMC | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1094BES | Enhance Your vSphere and vSAN implementations w/ Persistent Memory and SSDs | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1246BE | Optimizing vSAN for Performance | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1329BES | Lessons Learned from Real-World vSAN Operations | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1338BE | vSAN: An Ideal Storage Platform for Kubernetes-controlled Cloud-Native Apps | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1364BE | Conquer Your Storage Demands with vSAN and Intel Technologies | NO Stream POSTED | NO DOWNLOAD POSTED | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1469BE | The Future of vSAN and Hyperconverged Infrastructure | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1477BE | New Ways to Use vRealize Operations and Log Insight for vSAN Environments | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1552BE | Deploying vSAN to 300 Stores in 2 Weeks: An Automation Story | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1583BE | vSAN Myth Busters: Busting the Common Misconceptions About vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1603BE | Native vSAN Data Protection: Safeguarding Virtual Machine Data on vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1615PE | vSAN Technical Customer Panel on vSAN Experiences | NO Stream POSTED | NO DOWNLOAD POSTED | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1768BE | What's New in vSAN: Technical Deep Dive | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI1993BE | vSAN Technical Deep Dive | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2019BE | Running SAP HANA on HCI Powered by vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2032BE | Successful vSAN for Remote Offices and Branch Offices | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2038BE | Best Practices for Deploying Hadoop Workloads on HCI Powered by vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2041BE | vSAN Encryption Deep Dive | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2088BE | vSAN Stretched Clusters Technical Deep Dive | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2180BE | vSAN Support Insight - Inside Out | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2513QE | Using vSAN Native Data Protection in the Real World | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2522BE | Getting Started with vSAN Automation | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2617BE | Best Practices for Deploying Business-Critical Oracle Workloads on vSAN HCI | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2681BE | The Latest and Greatest with VMware vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2909QER | VMs on vSAN - An End to End View | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI2997BE | Scaling Beyond Big Data: HealthCare and Financial Data on vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI3041BE | Introducing Scalable File Storage on vSAN with Native File Services | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| HCI3452BE | Achieving a GDPR-Ready Architecture Leveraging VMware vSAN | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| PRV1429BE | vSAN Stretched Clusters & Disaster Recovery simplified by Cloud Foundation | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
| WIN3450BE | Best Practices for Deploying Horizon on vSAN and VxRail | STREAM | DOWNLOAD | NO PDF POSTED |
Misc
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- vSAN Stickers art by @duncanyb - http://www.yellow-bricks.com/stickersshirts/
How to contribute
Read the How to collaborate document
Special Thanks
Special Thanks for all the community members who helped me to come up with this first version. Everything started with this single tweet
- https://twitter.com/Luciano_PT
- https://twitter.com/importcarguy
- https://twitter.com/paulbraren
- https://twitter.com/flaborea
- https://twitter.com/dustinplank
- https://twitter.com/mlydy
- https://twitter.com/mmagbee
- https://twitter.com/arielsanchezmor
Disclaimer
The authors and contributors to this content cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and any persons associated with this content or project. The authors and contributors do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions in the information contained in, associated with, or linked from this content, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.
TL/DR - Tweets are mine and don't represent my employeer.)
Update Log
- 2019-03-20
- added tools section
- added vsanmetrics
- added @erwanquelin
- 2019-03-21
- added rsingler_
- 2019-03-22
- added @virtuallySensei
- added @hari5611
- added vSAN Blogs Series section
- added vSAN Health Checks Explained by @hari5611
- addes list of vExperts vSAN
- 2019-03-23
- added Temporary Resources section
- added vSAN Snippets: Reporting Drive Location & More by Jase McCarty
- added VMware vSAN: Performance Best Practices for Geeks webinar
- 2019-03-26
- added vSAN Home Lab section
- added VMware Knowledge Base (KB)
- added @vspinmaster
- added vSAN links from @ericsiebert
- added vSAN KB
- 2019-03-27
- added @XtosK
- added @jorgedlcruz vSAN lab
- added @vmiss33 vSAN links
- added @vBrownBag vSAN videos
- added new links to vSAN Home Lab section
- removed vSAN Temporary resources section
- 2019-03-28
- added @HaraldRuppert - Twitter section
- added vSAN HCL Viewer Tool - Tools section
- updated TOC
- 2019-03-29
- added vSAN 6.7U1 Health Checks Explained Pt 5 by @hari5611
- added #vDocumentation by @arielsanchezmor @edmsanchez13 @jpsider Thanks @VirtualG_UK
- fixed How to Contribute Link
- added Sexigraf in tool's section
- 2019-04-01
- added Quick Tips section
- added Dell VSAN Ready Node: What is the Default VMWare ESXi Root password for 14G Servers? by @DellAjudaPRO
- 2019-04-02
- added vSAN API section - thanks @lamw
- added vSAN post at @alanrenouf blog (how did I miss that one?)
- added vSAN in Portuguese, Spanish and Non-English sections
- added Consideraciones para ejecutar cargas de trabajo de Microsoft SQL en VMware vSAN by @costaricavmug
- added @alanrenouf and @ricardoconzatti to twitter section
- added solutionsforcrowds to PT-BR blog section
- updated ToC
- 2019-04-03
- added @fabianwiese
- added Virtually Fabian by @fabianwiese
- added vmw latam blog by @GreatWhiteTec
- 2019-04-08
- updated HCIBench 2.0
- 2019-04-09
- added VxRAIL section - tks @harikrishnant
- 2019-04-10
- added blog Ignacio Errea - @inatoerrea
ToDo
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Create the Table of Contents links2019-03-20 -
Improve the community update process
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Tweet new commits- need to automate this -
Create a Twitter account for the project
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Add new section - vSAN vExpert List -
Write better commit messages)