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vSAN ROBO 2-node 10GbE direct/cross connect is now officially supported in vSAN 6.5 release as well as vSphere 6.0 patch#04.

It solves various problems for ROBO solutions –

• High speed switching is not needed

• Reduced complexity

• Reduced Opex & Capex

• Granularly scalable capacity, compute or performance in same model

• Single upgrade/maintenance procedure

How?

• Uses any 2 vSAN ready nodes

• Connect 10G i...

An easy way of checking your hosts compatibility against vSAN HCL as per VMware.

• Connect to vCenter

• Download latest VSAN HCL details (json file)

• Compare controllers of each host against the VSAN HCL

• Report the state of your infra

Below script is also available on VMware Developer Center as well –

Connect-VIServer myvcenter -user Administrator -password MyPass23

Function Get-CompatibleVSANController {

    if (-...