More than a year ago, I upgraded my home lab to get started with vSAN. Back then I decided to go for a small hardware upgrade and already feared that the new resources will lack again very soon. And of course that happened after a short time, when I installed the vSAN cluster. Back then I already heard about the Xeon D …

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In 2008 I started working as VMware administrator and thus also began using vSphere at home. You might know this - as an IT person you want to have a lab at home that can be compared with the infrastructure at work. 🙂 The hardware half-life is quite short and especially when virtualizing workloads you can reach memory …

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Especially when playing around with multiple vCenter and VSAN versions in a lab, it might be necessary to rebuild a VSAN cluster. In this scenario, it is sometimes also necessary to also reset the SSD and HDD drives used by VSAN. In my lab I'm often resetting the whole VSAN cluster to have a clear starting point - …

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