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Hello VMware community friends! If you missed vExpert 2025, don't worry at all. Applications open mid-December 2025 and close mid-January 2026, with awards announced in February. The program recognizes contributions from all through 2025, and recent impactful work gets the most attention from reviewers. Even starting now with focused effort, you can build a winning application. This blog explains the journey in simple terms so you understand exactly what vExpert means, why it

Hello friends, if you're a vSphere admin dealing with storage decisions in 2025, you've probably heard the debate: vSAN or vVols? Both are powerful storage options in vSphere 8, but they serve different needs. vSAN gives you hyper-converged simplicity, while vVols brings granular control for enterprise storage arrays. In this post, let's break it down simply so you can pick the right one for your environment. No more confusion about VMware vSAN vs vVols comparison. Whether yo

In the virtual realm of vSAN clusters, security stands tall as a paramount concern. One key aspect ensuring the integrity of your data is...

Hello and welcome back. We have discussed about compression in vSAN in last few blogs. In this blog, let's discuss about the Erasure...

The Express Storage Architecture (ESA) introduced in VMware vSAN 8 revolutionizes the implementation of compression. With ESA, VMware has...

VMware vSAN 8 introduces the revolutionary Express Storage Architecture. This is an alternate storage architecture to the vSAN original...

With the introduction of vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA), VMware has taken storage efficiency to the next level. In this blog...

VMware vSAN, the industry-leading software-defined storage solution, continues to evolve and innovate to meet the demands of modern data...

In this post, let's quickly go through the steps which you need to follow to enable the vSAN File Services. You can enable vSAN File...

File services is a common requirement in today’s enterprise environments. Historically, providing these file-level services meant using...

In the last blog, we discussed about the different options which are available when working with Maintenance mode in vSAN Cluster. In...

Before you shut down, reboot, or disconnect a host that is a member of a cluster, you must put the host in maintenance mode to avoid...

In this section, we will discuss the behavior of the vSAN Stretched Cluster when various failures occur. Understanding failure scenarios...

In this previous blog, we discussed about configuring a stretched cluster manually. Let's talk more about converting the stretched...

In this blog post, let's quickly go through the steps which we need to follow to configure a vSAN Stretched Cluster manually. Please make...