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Quick Tip - NVMe Tiering configured but not working?

09.13.2024 by William Lam // 10 Comments

Since publishing my NVMe Tiering in vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is a Homelab game changer blog post, the feedback and responses have been absolutely phenomenal!

It will be just a matter of time until we can start using RAID with NVME Tiering !

When it happens, it will be a HUGR game change!

BTW, I'm already using it on my Lab Environment!!

It's F**** awesome! pic.twitter.com/h6Np972RcQ

— Chris ✈️??????? (@crismsantos) September 4, 2024

In fact, during VMware Explore, I had a number of users share with me in person that they not only updated to vSphere 8.0 Update 3 after learning about the feature but they were extremely happy that they could have their hardware was even more capable with just a software upgrade and workloads varied from general infrastructure VMs to the full VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack.

Right before VMware Explore, I did have a couple of users who reported that after successfully configuring NVMe Tiering and rebooting their ESXi host, they noticed the memory capacity did not change. After sharing the details along with vm-support bundles, Engineering has identified the root cause.

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab Tags // ESXi 8.0 Update 3, NVMe

ESXi on SimplyNUC extremeEDGE 3000 Series

09.12.2024 by William Lam // 3 Comments

The folks over at SimplyNUC has recently launched an exciting new Edge-focused product line called the extremeEDGE (EE) Servers and I recently had the opportunity to try out their latest 3000 Series (3rd generation of their EE platform) in my homelab for some testing.

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab Tags // SimplyNUC

Quick Tip - Retrieving vSAN Congestion Health Programmatically

09.05.2024 by William Lam // 1 Comment

While catching up on post-Explore email, I received a question from a customer who has a large number of vSAN deployments spanning their ROBO environment. In one of their environment, they had some physical congestion issue that caused some problems for their vSAN stretched cluster and they were looking for a way to monitor the vSAN congestion health, which is available as part of vSAN Health.


Since this information is available as part of vSAN Health, we can certainly leverage the vSAN Health API to retrieve this information programmatically but we can also look at using the PowerCLI Test-VsanClusterHealth cmdlet to get this information in a quicker manner for administrators.

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Categories // PowerCLI, VSAN Tags // VSAN

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