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Top 20 vSAN articles for April 2016

Top 20Here is our Top 20 vSAN articles list for April 2016. This list is ranked by the number of times a VMware Support Request was resolved by following the steps in a published Knowledge Base article.

  1. Certification of Dell PERC H730 and FD332-PERC Controllers with VSAN 6.x
  2. Best practices for Virtual SAN implementations using Dell PERC H730 or FD332-PERC storage controllers
  3. VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Requirements
  4. Following maintenance, hosts in a Virtual SAN cluster may erroneously report the error: Host cannot communicate with all other nodes in virtual SAN enabled cluster
  5. Avoiding a known drive failure issue when Dell PERC H730 controller is used with VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 or 6.0
  6. Required VSAN and ESXi configuration for controllers based on the LSI 3108 chipset
  7. vSphere 5.5 Virtual SAN requirements
  8. VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 on disk upgrade fails at 10%
  9. Powering on virtual machines in VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 fails with error: Failed to create swap file
  10. VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 or 5.5 Update 3 Disk Groups show as Unmounted in the vSphere Web Client (DDH)
  11. Upgrading from ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6.x in a Virtual SAN cluster can cause permanent loss of data
  12. VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 on disk upgrade fails due to CBT enabled virtual disks
  13. Requirements and considerations for the deployment of VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
  14. Creating new objects on a VMware Virtual SAN Datastore fails and reports the error: Failed to create directory VCENTER (Cannot Create File)
  15. Support statement for 512e and 4K Native drives for VMware vSphere and VSAN
  16. ESXi 5.5 host in a VMware Virtual SAN cluster reports a warning alarm: Host vendor provider registration
  17. Virtual SAN Health Service – Cluster Health – VSAN Health service installation
  18. Upgrading from VMware vSphere 5.5 EP06 or 5.5 P04 to vSphere 6.0 GA can cause VMware Virtual SAN Data Unavailability
  19. Upgrading the VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) on-disk format version from 1 to 2
  20. Virtual SAN Health Service – Performance Service – Stats DB object check