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More Money, More Problems: How vSAN Provides HCI Solutions to the Finance Industry

vSAN Team posted Yesterday

No industry plays it safer with money than finance – after all, they’re literally in the business of making cheddar. And yet, many financial providers are plagued by costly, inefficient and antiquated infrastructures and data centers. These outdated technologies are bad for business and can push financial companies into the dreaded red, when the only color Read more...

vSAN and VxRail Take Center Stage at Dell Technology World

Hanoch Eiron posted 3 days ago

In case you missed Dell Technology World the other week, it was clear that Dell EMC VxRail, the market-leading HCI appliance, and VMware vSAN, the market-leading HCI software, took center stage throughout the week. The 14,000 customers and industry people in attendance enjoyed a front row seat to the evolution from traditional storage to hyper-converged Read more...

Understanding vSAN Encryption – KMS Server Accessibility

Jase McCarty posted May 17, 2018

vSAN 6.6 introduced data at rest encryption as a new feature that provides another choice (in addition to VM Encryption introduced in vSphere 6.5) for customers to secure data in vSphere. Despite the fact that these technologies work a bit differently (per datastore for vSAN Encryption or per VM for VM Encryption) these technologies still Read more...

Understanding the vSAN Witness Host – Traffic Tagging

Jase McCarty posted May 16, 2018

With 2 Node and Stretched Cluster vSAN, a vSAN Witness Host is used. This can be a physical vSphere host or a  VMware provided virtual appliance. Using the vSAN Witness Appliance is easy, does not require any additional licensing, and has much of the configuration standardized (sizing, disks, tagged ports). A second VMkernel port (vmk1) Read more...

vSAN ReadyCare: Your World-Class HCI Support System

Tom Nagelmeyer posted May 15, 2018

  Due to increasing IT operational complexity and stagnant budgets, organizations depend on their vendors to provide timely, innovative support. As part of VMware’s commitment to world class support, VMware recently introduced vSAN ReadyCare, which is an overall description of the significant vSAN support investments VMware has made across three key areas: innovative technology, efficient Read more...

Relentless Availability powered by vSAN Stretched Clusters for VMware Cloud on AWS

Glenn Sizemore posted May 15, 2018

Last March we publicly announced a preview of an upcoming feature being developed for the VMware Cloud on AWS Service; Stretched Clusters, and Multi-AZ SDDC Instances.  Yesterday Emad Younis released an overview for this exciting new feature.  Today I would like to explain the underlying technology behind this new type of VMC SDDC, but first, let’s explore Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Episode 78: vSphere 6.7 Core Storage

Pete Flecha posted May 11, 2018

The vSphere 6.7 release offers several new features and enhancements to further the advancement of storage functionality. This week we welcome VMware Core Storage expert Jason Massae to walk us through various features and enhancements. Sitting in for John this week is VMware Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO and good friend of the Virtually Read more...

KB for vSAN Support Insight

John Nicholson posted May 6, 2018

vSAN Support Insight is a next-generation platform for analytics of health, configuration, and performance telemetry. Its purpose is to help vSAN users maintain reliable and consistent computing, storage and network environment. New KB’s have come out outlining how to work with vSAN Support Insight. vSAN Analytics for Skyline – How to locate vCenter UUID (51121) The Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Episode 77: vSphere 6.7 Security

Pete Flecha posted May 4, 2018

VMware recently announced vSphere 6.7, the latest release of the industry-leading virtualization and cloud platform. VMware Security expert Mike Foley recently wrote a blog sharing the new security features available now in vSphere 6.7. In the post he explains “the goals of security in 6.7 are twofold. Introduce more easy to use security features and meet Read more...

vSAN Compatibility with Veeam Availability Suite to be Showcased at VeeamON 2018

Sarah Urbonas posted May 2, 2018

  As businesses look to digitally transform and adapt to modern challenges, they are relying on VMware to build a digital foundation, or ubiquitous software infrastructure control plane, from edge to core to cloud. As a first step in their journey towards a true hybrid cloud, customers are leveraging vSAN, VMware’s vSphere-native storage solution, to Read more...