Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

Understanding vSAN Storage Architecture-Part 1

March 13, 2025

In today’s virtualized data centers, storage plays a crucial role in ensuring high availability, reliability, and scalability. VMware’s vSAN (Virtual SAN) solution is a software-defined storage solution. It simplifies the management of storage. It integrates seamlessly with VMware’s vSphere environments. Among the key configurations within vSAN are OSA (On-Demand Storage Architecture) and ESA (Elastic Storage Architecture). Each offers unique benefits. These benefits depend on the use case.

In this blog, we’ll explore the concepts of vSAN OSA Single-Site Clusters. We will guide you through the setup process with lab steps. These steps will help you set up these clusters. Capable of supporting three to sixty-four hosts per vSAN cluster.


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Migration of the NSX-V to NSX-T integrated with vRA-Part-2

March 28, 2024

Welcome back! I hope you’ve had the chance to review the first part of the migration process. If not, here is the Part 1 blog on Migration of the NSX-V to NSX-T integrated with vRA-Part-1

A brief recap from part one,
1. Verification of the NSX-V environment for migration readiness.
2. Deployment of the NSX-T appliance with compatibility considerations.
3. Creation of uplink segments and configuration of the uplink profile with a teaming policy for the edges.
4. Deployment of the edges and integration with NSX-T manager.
5. Conducting a ping test between Edge TEP and NSX-V Host VTEP.
6. Establishment of T0 and uplink configuration with BGP neighborship.

In this blog post, we will be examining the Second step of Migration:

Step 1: Add the new NSX-T on vRA.

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