Awesome vSAN - A Community List of AWESOME VMware vSAN Resources

#AwesomevSAN - by @homelaber

Last Update: 2019-04-11

A curated list of AWESOME VMware vSAN Resources create by the community to the community.

Index:

• vSAN Product info (VMware Official)
• Documentation
• Downloads
• vSAN Versions Release Notes
• vSAN End Of Support
• VMware Flings - vSAN
• Quick Tips
• Tools
• VxRail
• vSAN on VMware {Code}
  • vSAN API
  • vSAN SDK
  • PowerCLI Cookbook
  • VMware Sample Exchange - vSAN - @ VMware {Code}
• vSAN Home Labs
• vSAN Hands-ON Labs (HOL)
• Virtually Speaking Podcast Episodes (vSAN)
• vSAN Blogs
  • vSAN Blogs in Spanish
  • vSAN Blogs in Portuguese
  • vSAN Blogs in Non-English Languages
    • German
• vSAN Blogs Series
• vSAN Twitter List
• vExperts vSAN
• vSAN Books
• vSAN Youtube Channels / Videos
• VMworld 2018 - vSAN Presentations & Videos
  • VMworld US
  • VMworld Europe
• Misc
• How to contribute
• Special Thanks
• Disclaimer
• Update Log
• ToDo

vSAN Product info (VMware Official)

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• Product Page - https://www.vmware.com/products/vsan.html - English

• Product Page - https://www.vmware.com/br/products/vsan.html - Brazilian Portuguese

• Product Page - https://www.vmware.com/es/products/vsan.html - Spanish

Documentation

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• Official vSAN Documentation - https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSAN/index.html

• Technical references - https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/

• Storage Hub - https://storagehub.vmware.com/

• VMware Knowledge Base (KB) - vSAN

• VMTN Community - https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsan/overview

• vSAN Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQ1cSf37ags3wnn9XEOC6Q

• vSAN HCL - https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=vsan

• vSAN Quick Hardware Reference Guide - https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/vsan_profile.html?locale=en

• vSAN Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/vmwarevsan

• vSAN 6.7 Licensing Guide - https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-67-licensing-guide.pdf

• Compare vSAN Editions and Features - https://www.vmware.com/products/vsan.html#compare

Downloads

• Download VMware vSAN - vSAN Product Evaluation - https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=vsan-6

I strongly recommend you to buy a subscription of VMUG EvalExperience to get you hands on VMware software bits including vSAN

• VMUG EVALExperience - https://www.vmug.com/Join/EVALExperience

vSAN Versions Release Notes

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• VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 1 Release Notes
• VMware vSAN 6.7 Release Notes
• VMware vSAN 6.6.1 Release Notes
• VMware vSAN 6.6 Release Notes
• VMware Virtual SAN 6.5 Release Notes
• VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Release Notes
• VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 Release Notes
• VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Release Notes

vSAN End Of Support

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Source - https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/support/product-lifecycle-matrix.pdf

VMware Flings - vSAN

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• vSAN Hardware Compatibility List Checker

• HCIBench Updated on April 04, 2019

  HCIBench 2.0 highlights:

  • Added fio as an alternative workload generator
  • Added Grafana for workload live monitoring
  • Switched UI to clarity
  • Allow user to select one to four cases while using easy-run
  • Bug fixes hopefully without introducing new bugs

Quick Tips

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• Dell VSAN Ready Node: What is the Default VMWare ESXi Root password for 14G Servers? by @DellAjudaPRO

Tools

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• vsanmetrics by Erwan Quélin @erwanquelin

  vsanmetrics is a tool written in Python for collecting usage and performance metrics and health status from a VMware vSAN cluster and translating them in InfluxDB's line protocol. It can be useful to send metrics in a time-serie database like InfluxDB or Graphite with the help of Telegraf and then display metrics in Grafana.

• vSAN Snippets: Reporting Drive Location & More by Jase McCarty - @jasemccarty https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2019/03/22/vsan-snippets-reporting-drive-location/

• vSAN HCL Viewer Tool by @HaraldRuppert - Source Code Thanks Andrey Timofeev

• vDocumentation by @arielsanchezmor @edmsanchez13 @jpsider Thanks Grahan Barker

• sexigraf by Raphael Schitz @hypervisor_fr and Frédéric Martin @vmdude_fr

  SexiGraf is a fully open-source vSphere centric Graphite VMware appliance with a Grafana frontend. It pulls VI and VSAN metrics from VMware vCenter APIs, push them to Graphite and let Grafana produces the gorgeous dashboards we love so much!

VxRail

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Powered by VMware vSAN and Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, VxRail is the only fully integrated, pre-configured, and pre-tested VMware hyperconverged appliance on the market. VxRail transforms HCI networking and simplifies VMware cloud adoption, while meeting any HCI use case, including support for the most demanding workloads and applications.

• Dell EMC VxRail Hyperconverged Infrastructure

• Dell EMC VxRail Appliance

• VxRail Appliance Techbook

• VxRail Quick Start Guide

• VxRail Network Guide

• VxRail Stretched Clusters Planning Guide

• VxRail vCenter Server Planning Guide

• VxRail Xpress Sizer

• VxRail Customer Success Stories

• VxRail HOL

• Dell EMC VxRail DECN Community

• VxRail Xpert Community

vSAN on VMware {Code}

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vSAN API

• vSAN Management API - v 6.7
• vSAN Management API - v 6.6.1
• vSAN Management API - v 6.5

vSAN SDK

• vSAN Management SDK for Java - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-java
• vSAN Management SDK for .NET - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-dotnet
• vSAN Management SDK for Perl - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-perl
• vSAN Management SDK for Python - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-python
• vSAN Management SDK for Ruby - https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U1/vsan-ruby

PowerCLI Cookbook

• PowerCLI Cookbook for VMware vSAN - vv1.4
• vSAN API Cookbook for Python

VMware Sample Exchange - vSAN - @ VMware {Code}

• All vSAN Code

vSAN Home Labs

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• VMware vSphere 6.7 – Despliegue de tres host ESXi 6.7 y despliegue desde cero de vSAN 6.7 de manera nested (Spanish) by @jorgedlcruz

• Create a VMware vSAN 6.7 U1 Nested ESXi Lab

• VMware vSAN Home Lab Hardware Failure and Resiliency

• How I designed my VMware vSAN based Home Lab

• HOMELABS? THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE CHOSEN FOR 2018

• My vSAN LAB

• Homelab Setup Part 2 – vSAN Configuration

• vSAN Home Lab

• VMware vSAN Homelab with Tony Reeves (@importcarguy)

vSAN Hands-ON Labs (HOL)

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• HOL-1908-01-HCI - vSAN v6.7 - Getting Started vSAN delivers flash-optimized, secure shared storage with the simplicity of a VMware vSphere-native experience for all of your critical virtualized workloads. https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/4687

• HOL-1908-02-CHG - vSAN v6.7 - Challenge Lab vSAN is "radically simple" to setup and get going, but how about configuring it for advanced use cases or troubleshooting performance and availability issues? You will be challenged to scale-out a vSAN cluster and to recover from misconfiguration issues. https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/4688

• HOL-1908-91-HCI - vSAN 6.7 Lightning Lab Lightning Labs are an easy way to learn about VMware products in as little as 30 minutes. https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/5418

• HOL-1945-01-SLN - Modernizing Data Centers for Business Transformation Modernizing your Data Center allows you to keep up with the new pace of business innovation. This lab is available in English, Português https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/4669

• HOL-1983-02-HBD - VMware Cloud Partner Program - Tools and Offerings Configure VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers with VMware NSX, VMware vSAN, VMware vRealize Operations, VMware vRealize Log Insight, VMware vRealize Orchestrator, and VMware vCloud Usage Meter. https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/lab/4671

Virtually Speaking Podcast Episodes (vSAN)

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• The State of vSAN

  http://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/episodes/107 - Mar 1, 2019 • 41 minutes

• Free vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive eBook

  http://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/episodes/105 - Jan 28, 2019 • 1 minute

• Elastic vSAN

  http://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/episodes/104 - Jan 25, 2019 • 37 minutes

• vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive

  http://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/episodes/101 - Jan 11, 2019 • 35 minutes

• All episodes

  http://www.vspeakingpodcast.com/episodes?tag=vSAN

vSAN Blogs

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• http://www.yellow-bricks.com/
• http://www.cormachogan.com/
• http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/
• http://www.virtu-al.net/?s=vsan
• http://thenicholson.com/
• https://storagemojo.com/
• http://storagegaga.com/
• http://silvertonconsulting.com/blog/
• https://www.penguinpunk.net/blog/
• https://digitalirl.com/
• http://www.dcig.com/blog
• http://www.datacenterdude.com/
• https://d8tadude.com/
• https://www.chriscolotti.us/
• http://www.50mu.net/
• https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/
• http://virtuallysensei.com/
• https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/category/virtualization/vmware/vsan/
• http://vsphere-land.com/vsphere-links/vsan-links.html (Collection of old vSAN links by ) @ericsiebert
• https://vmiss.net/2018/04/05/the-cheap-and-easy-way-to-get-started-with-vmware-vsan/ (The Cheap and Easy Way to Get Started with VMware vSAN by) @vmiss33

vSAN Blogs in Spanish

• vSAN related posts @ VMware LATAM Blog https://blogs.vmware.com/latam/vsan

• Consideraciones para ejecutar cargas de trabajo de Microsoft SQL en VMware vSAN by @costaricavmug

• Blog Ignacio Errea by @inatoerrea

vSAN Blogs in Portuguese

• https://solutions4crowds.com.br/?s=vsan by @ricardoconzatti

vSAN Blogs in Non-English Languages

German

• Virtually Fabian by @fabianwiese - http://fabianwiese.de/category/vsan/ - German

vSAN Blogs Series

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• vSAN 6.7U1 Health Checks Explained by Harikrishnan - @hari5611
  • Part 1 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/01/30/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-1/
  • Part 2 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-2/
  • Part 3 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-3/
  • Part 4 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-4/
  • Part 5 - https://serveritpro.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/vsan-health-checks-explained-part-5/

vSAN Twitter List

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vSAN People you should follow on Twitter

vSAN Chat

https://twitter.com/hashtag/vsanchat?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash

vSAN Who To Follow by Diego Flaborea

https://twitter.com/flaborea/lists/vsan-who-to-follow

VMware vSAN @vmwarevsan - Twitter Official VMware vSAN is a software-defined, enterprise storage solution powering industry-leading hyperconverged infrastructure systems. #vSANChat

Captain vSAN @CaptainVSAN It is clobbering time... FUD Fighting, Knowledge Spreading, vSAN Super Hero!

Duncan Epping @DuncanYB Chief Technologist Hyperconverged Infrastructure @VMware, focus on Edge and Hybrid Cloud. Author of http://Yellow-Bricks.com , vSAN and Clustering Deep dive books

Cormac Hogan @CormacJHogan Office of the CTO, Storage and Availability BU at VMware. Author and Blogger.

John Nicholson @Lost_Signal vExpert 2013-2016, Veeam Vanguard. Technical Marketing VSAN @ VMware - Storage and Availability. vSpeaking Podcast - tweets are my own

Pete Flecha @vPedroArrow Technical Marketing for VMware's Storage and Availability products. Host of the vSpeaking Podcast @virtspeaking vExpert 2014-2019 | Veeam Vanguard

Yanbing Li @ybhighheels High Tech Girl in High Heels, SVP/GM Storage and Availability @VMware, Mom of 3. Determined to have a positive outlook on life.

Ron Singler @rsingler_ Director of Technology, Storage & Availability @VMware - My views/opinions are my own…

Christos Karamanolis @XtosK Fellow @VMware. CTO, Storage & Availability. VSAN architect. Building software products, not just technologies. Opinions are mine.

Josh Fidel @jcefidel Global Senior Systems Engineer, #HCI, #vSAN at VMware. #VCP #EMCIE #EMCISAv2 #MCSE #CCA #CEH #vbeard #CreativeSavage. All tweets poorly formed opinion only.

Tony Reeves @importcarguy Christian, Husband, Father, Virtualization geek, VCP5-6.5DCV, 3x #vExpert & #vSANvExpert @WIVMUG Leader, Co-host of the @vGigacast, Tech Field Day delegate

Luciano Patrão @Luciano_PT Blogger, vExpert 4*, VCP6.5- DCV, vSAN Specialist 2*, Veeam Vanguard, TechLead Virtualization & Storage, ICT Senior Infrastructure Engineer. Backups specialist.

Tyler Gates @TSGates_ SE @vmware || Co-Host @S3Vops || Passionate about HCI, data center automation, & transforming business processes || Brewer, Maker, & 3D Printer || Go Build!

Aaron Buley @aaronbuley Global Director, @VMware HCI Engineering @DellEMC for @VxRail (#VxSEALs) | #BuleyStrong Cancer Survivor | Dad⁴ | YouTuber (link below ⤵️)

Ken Werneburg @vmKen Group Manager of Technical Marketing for VMware's storage and availability products.

Pete Koehler @vmpete Tech Marketing | Storage & Availability BU @ VMware. All comments mine. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pekoehler

Dave Morera 🦈 @GreatWhiteTec Solutions Architect (SABU) @VMware - #vExpert, CrossFit, Sharks, ⚽️ . Opinions = all mine

Darin Zook @darinzook Christian | Husband | Father | Sr. SE vSAN/HCI @VMware - Tweets are my own. #vExpert

Jeff Hunter (vmware) @jhuntervmware VMware Group Manager, #vSAN Technical Marketing. Christ follower. Husband. Dad. Jeep owner. Tweets are mine, not the official position of my employer.

Myles Gray @mylesagray Sr. Technical Marketing Architect @VMware. Writes https://blah.cloud . All things networking and storage.

Jason Massae @jbmassae @VMware, vSAN vExpert, vExpert, Christian, Family man, Scout Leader, Maker. All-Flash vSAN Pioneer, Tweets are mine

Lee Caswell @leecaswell Storage enthusiast, VMware Exec, classical trumpeter, table tennis threat, all tweets my own

Jase McCarty @jasemccarty TM @VMware. HCI/storage/code. Engineer/Architect & @usairforce MSgt (Ret)- Cyber Systems/ Maintainer - Christian/Husband/Dad/@Jeep-er. Life is a Big Yellow Taxi

Paul Braren @paulbraren Dad. VMware Sr. Systems Engineer, vSAN/HCI. vExpert. All views my own. Founded TinkerTry IT @ home: efficient virtualization, storage, backup, & more...

Myles Gray @mylesagray Sr. Technical Marketing Architect @VMware. Writes https://blah.cloud . All things networking and storage.

Glenn Sizemore @glnsize Technical Marketing for VMware's Storage and Availability products. All things Storage in VMware Cloud on AWS. tweets are my own.

Ron Scott-Adams @Tohuw Christian. Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Storage & Availability @VMware. @vExpert. Devout optimistic curmudgeon. Views are mine alone.

Luigi Danakos @NerdBlurt I have a lot of interests but mainly Tech, Video games and stuff to do w/my Family. #vExpert Work doing Social Media Marketing & Host of TechStandup Podcast

Erwan Quélin @erwanquelin Build stuff and then fix issues... @OVH #VMware #vExpert #Dev #Automation

Mr vSAN @MR__vSAN

Hareesh K G | vExpert @virtuallySensei Technical Support Engineer-II at VMware |vExpert 2018 | VCAP-6/5.5 DCV| vSAN-specialist |Blogger at http://virtuallySensei.com

Harikrishnan T @hari5611 Systems Development Engineer @ #DellEMC R&D. VMware #vExpert 2019, #CiscoChampion 2019, Vmware VTSP-Network Virtualization, HCI & vCloud Foundation.

Brandon Lee @vspinmaster vExpert 2018, IT Pro for 20+ Years, Virtualization enthusiast, geek, home labber, father

Harald Ruppert @HaraldRuppert vSAN Escalation Engineer @vmwarecork. May contain non-work related posts. All tweets are my own

Alan Renouf @alanrenouf Sr Product Line Manager for XR (VR/AR/MR) at VMware

Ricardo Conzatti @RicardoConzatti vExpert, VCAP6-DCV, VCP5/6/6.5-DCV, VCP6/7-CMA, MCSE, @vBrownBagBrasil host, @vmugpr and @vugbrasil leader #vExpert #Blogger #VMUG #vCommunity #ScriptLover

Fabian Wiese @FabianWiese Senior HCI Specialist SE @VMware | VCP-DCV | VCAP-DCD | vSAN Specialist | vExpert 2019 | Tweets are my own

vExperts vSAN

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List of vExperts on the vExpert vSAN Subprogram.

https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory

vSAN Books

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• vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive book
• Essential VSAN
• vSAN Essentials 6.2 by @cormacjhogan and @duncanyb on gitbooks.io

vSAN Youtube Channels / Videos

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• VMware vSAN Youtube Channel
• Introduction to VMware vSAN
• VMworld 2017 - vSAN Playlist by @duncanyb
• Introdução VMware vSAN - PT-BR by John Costa
• Tech Stand Up Episode 20 – Getting Started with VMware vSAN for Free by Luigi Danakos @nerdBlurt
• vBrownBag vSAN videos @vBrownBag
• Sanjay Poonen (VMware) & Thomas Kurian (Google) Next 2019 keynote comments by @spoonen

VMworld 2018 - vSAN Presentations & Videos

VMworld US

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Source by @lamw

VMworld Europe

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Source by @lamw

Misc

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• vSAN Stickers art by @duncanyb - http://www.yellow-bricks.com/stickersshirts/

How to contribute

Read the How to collaborate document

Special Thanks

Special Thanks for all the community members who helped me to come up with this first version. Everything started with this single tweet

• https://twitter.com/Luciano_PT
• https://twitter.com/importcarguy
• https://twitter.com/paulbraren
• https://twitter.com/flaborea
• https://twitter.com/dustinplank
• https://twitter.com/mlydy
• https://twitter.com/mmagbee
• https://twitter.com/arielsanchezmor

Disclaimer

The authors and contributors to this content cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and any persons associated with this content or project. The authors and contributors do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions in the information contained in, associated with, or linked from this content, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.

TL/DR - Tweets are mine and don't represent my employeer.)

Update Log

• 2019-03-20
  • added tools section
  • added vsanmetrics
  • added @erwanquelin
• 2019-03-21
  • added rsingler_
• 2019-03-22
  • added @virtuallySensei
  • added @hari5611
  • added vSAN Blogs Series section
  • added vSAN Health Checks Explained by @hari5611
  • addes list of vExperts vSAN
• 2019-03-23
  • added Temporary Resources section
  • added vSAN Snippets: Reporting Drive Location & More by Jase McCarty
  • added VMware vSAN: Performance Best Practices for Geeks webinar
• 2019-03-26
  • added vSAN Home Lab section
  • added VMware Knowledge Base (KB)
  • added @vspinmaster
  • added vSAN links from @ericsiebert
  • added vSAN KB
• 2019-03-27
  • added @XtosK
  • added @jorgedlcruz vSAN lab
  • added @vmiss33 vSAN links
  • added @vBrownBag vSAN videos
  • added new links to vSAN Home Lab section
  • removed vSAN Temporary resources section
• 2019-03-28
  • added @HaraldRuppert - Twitter section
  • added vSAN HCL Viewer Tool - Tools section
  • updated TOC
• 2019-03-29
  • added vSAN 6.7U1 Health Checks Explained Pt 5 by @hari5611
  • added #vDocumentation by @arielsanchezmor @edmsanchez13 @jpsider Thanks @VirtualG_UK
  • fixed How to Contribute Link
  • added Sexigraf in tool's section
• 2019-04-01
  • added Quick Tips section
  • added Dell VSAN Ready Node: What is the Default VMWare ESXi Root password for 14G Servers? by @DellAjudaPRO
• 2019-04-02
  • added vSAN API section - thanks @lamw
  • added vSAN post at @alanrenouf blog (how did I miss that one?)
  • added vSAN in Portuguese, Spanish and Non-English sections
  • added Consideraciones para ejecutar cargas de trabajo de Microsoft SQL en VMware vSAN by @costaricavmug
  • added @alanrenouf and @ricardoconzatti to twitter section
  • added solutionsforcrowds to PT-BR blog section
  • updated ToC
• 2019-04-03
  • added @fabianwiese
  • added Virtually Fabian by @fabianwiese
  • added vmw latam blog by @GreatWhiteTec
• 2019-04-08
  • updated HCIBench 2.0
• 2019-04-09
  • added VxRAIL section - tks @harikrishnant
• 2019-04-10
  • added blog Ignacio Errea - @inatoerrea
• 2019-04-11
  • added @spoonen talk @ #GoogleNext19

ToDo

• Create the Table of Contents links 2019-03-20

• Improve the community update process

• Tweet new commits - need to automate this

• Create a Twitter account for the project

• Add new section - vSAN vExpert List

• Write better commit messages)