Unexplored Territory #113 - Procuring hardware for a vSAN based VCF infrastructure - featuring John Nicholson!
Mar 2, 2026
42:45
I've been on the Virtually Speaking podcast several times, so it was time to invite one of the hosts to the Unexplored Territory Podcast and discuss his favorite topic, hardware configurations, and the bill of materials!
John Nicholson goes over all the ins and outs of procuring new hardware and talks about ordering components for existing hardware. We discuss NICs, Switches, Ready Node configurations, Emulated Ready Node configurations, NVMe devices, and much more.
During the discussion, various blogs and videos were mentioned, make sure to check those as well!
- https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2023/07/26/expanded-hardware-compatibility-for-vsan-express-storage-architecture/
- https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/326476/what-you-can-and-cannot-change-in-a-vsan.html
- https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2023/07/27/yes-you-can-change-things-on-a-vsan-esa-readynode/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjen1ER8ASc
- https://www.vmware.com/explore/video-library/video/6360757998112