HPE Solutions with VMware (HPE2-B04)

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QuestionQ22

Design VMware-based Infrastructure Solutions

A customer deployed a VMware vSAN solution on HPE Synergy with assistance from a junior partner. The customer reports poor I/O performance.

Which design guideline should you confirm was followed?

Explanation

vSAN performs its own distributed data placement and protection, so its storage devices should be presented directly through controllers configured in HBA/passthrough mode rather than behind RAID volumes. HPE’s Synergy vSAN best-practices guidance specifies HBA mode with no RAID, and Broadcom identifies passthrough/HBA mode as the preferred vSAN controller configuration.

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