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Virtual SAN 6.1 available today!

Duncan Epping · Sep 10, 2015 ·

What more do I need to say? vSphere 6.0 U1 was released today and it ships with Virtual SAN 6.1. By now you’ve all seen my posts on what’s new for VSAN 6.1 and you’ve hopefully seen the demo we created for stretched clustering. If you want to play with 6.1 yourself then you can find it here:

  • VSAN 6.1 Product download page
  • VSAN 6.1 Release Notes
  • VSAN 6.1 Administration Guide

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Server, Software Defined, Storage, vSAN 6.1, virtual san, VMware, vsan, vSphere

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  1. Jeff says

    13 September, 2015 at 22:29

    If you are in a stretched cluster configuration and want to vMotion a guest to another site, how do you ensure Read locality at that site(fault domain) afterwards?

    • Duncan Epping says

      13 September, 2015 at 23:12

      “read locality” follows the “fault domain” it is in. Do note that the cache will need to be rewarded unfortunately at that point.

  2. Jeff says

    13 September, 2015 at 23:26

    Thank you. We were looking into some Array stretched cluster solutions before 6.1 came out. We are now interested in this solution.

  3. Manuel says

    2 January, 2016 at 01:06

    I have a 3 hosts cluster with vsan 6.0 but to version have a known problem with dual lsi3008 controllers per hosts.
    With vsan 6.1 this issue is fixed.
    My questions are: is 6.1 ready for a production environment? Is the upgrade safe if I have all in hcl? What’s the best practice for the safest upgrade? Is it better to move all VMs of the cluster outside VSAN datastore, upgrade and after that return them on datastore or is it useless?
    Many thanks

    • Duncan Epping says

      3 January, 2016 at 21:27

      Yes you are okay to upgrade, I would recommend in place upgrade as well in a rolling fashion. No need to move the data off when upgrading. In all my tests the upgrade process worked flawlessly!

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. Besides writing on Yellow-Bricks, Duncan co-authors the vSAN Deep Dive book series and the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive book series. Duncan also co-hosts the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

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