There are some very basic commands which are really useful in troubleshoting.
Use below esxcli commands to obtain information about Virtual SAN and to troubleshoot your Virtual SAN environment.
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Command |
Description |
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esxcli vsan network list |
Verify which VMkernel adapters are used for Virtual SAN communication. |
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esxcli vsan storage list |
List storage disks that were claimed by Virtual SAN. |
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esxcli vsan cluster get |
Get Virtual SAN cluster information. |
You can use RAID 5 or RAID 6 erasure coding to protect against data loss and increase storage efficiency. Erasure coding can provide the same level of data protection as mirroring (RAID 1), while using less storage capacity.
RAID 5 or RAID 6 erasure coding enables Virtual SAN to tolerate the failure of up to two capacity devices in the datastore. You can configure RAID 5 on all-flash clusters with four or more fault domains. You can configure RAID 5 or RAID 6 on all-flash clusters with six or more fault domains.
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You can disable deduplication and compression on your Virtual SAN cluster.
When deduplication and compression are disabled on the Virtual SAN cluster, the size of the used capacity in the cluster can expand (based on the deduplication ratio). Before you disable deduplication and compression, verify that the cluster has enough capacity to handle the size of the expanded data.You can enable deduplication and compression by editing configuration parameters on an existing Virtual SAN cluster.
You can enable deduplication and compression when you configure a new Virtual SAN all-flash cluster.
Consider these guidelines when you configure deduplication and compression in a Virtual SAN cluster.
Virtual SAN can eliminate duplicate data blocks within each disk group, but not across disk groups.
Capacity overhead for deduplication and compression is approximately five percent of total raw capacity.
Deduplication and compression are available only on all-flash disk groups.
On-disk format version 3.0 or later is required to support deduplication and compression.
You must have a valid license to enable deduplication and compression on a cluster.
You can enable deduplication and compression only if the storage-claiming method is set to manual. You can change the
Consider the following guidelines when managing disks in a cluster with deduplication and compression enabled.
Avoid adding disks to a disk group incrementally. For more efficient deduplication and compression, consider adding a new disk group to increase cluster storage capacity.
When you add a new disk group manually, add all of the capacity disks at the same time.
You cannot remove a single disk from a disk group. You must remove the entire disk group to make modifications.
A single disk failure causes the entire disk group to fail.
The amount of storage
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Virtual SAN can perform block-level deduplication and compression to save storage space. When you enable deduplication and compression on a Virtual SAN all-flash cluster, redundant data within each disk group is reduced.
Deduplication removes redundant data blocks, whereas compression removes additional redundant data within each data block. These techniques work together to reduce the amount of space required to store the data. Virtual SAN applies deduplication and then compression as it moves data from the cache tier to the capacity tier.
You can enable deduplication and compression as a cluster-wide setting, but they are applied on a disk group basis.
… Read The Rest ......This is my First Post in VSAN performance monitoring Series . In this series we will learn how to setup and configure VSAN Observer for your VSAN Cluster.
VSAN Observer is designed to capture performance statistics for a Virtual SAN Cluster and provide access through a web browser and capture the statistics for customer use or for VMware Technical Support.
For any vSphere, Virtual SAN, and storage administrator wanting to dig deeper and analyze performance issues, the virtual SAN observer is a valuable tool. It provides an in-depth snapshot of IOPS, latencies at different layers of … Read The Rest ......