Staying up-to-date on the latest technological advances can be a difficult feat – there are only so many hours in the day! The SEV Ops trio understands this struggle and have made it their mission to provide educational and entertaining content using YouTube as their social platform of choice.
SEV Ops is comprised of technological aficionados Aaron Buley, Tyler Gates, and Russ Cantwell. Aaron and Tyler both work at DELL EMC. The former is a hyper-converged specialist, and the latter is a systems engineer. Russ is a field solutions executive at SHI International Corporation. In their entertaining and lighthearted YouTube video entitled, VMware VSAN 6.2: Storage Efficiency (Dedupe, Compression, Erasure Coding), the trio take a four-minute deep dive into space efficiency features of VMware vSAN.
- Deduplication and Compression
- Dedupe and compression is enabled on a cluster level and happens during de-staging from the caching tier to the capacity tier
- After blocks are deduplicated, they are then compressed
- As the trio proudly states, it’s great for workloads like VDI and homogenous server operating systems
- You can learn more about vSAN Dedup and Compression here
- Erasure Coding
- This is the process of encoding and partitioning data into fragments so one is able to recover the original data even if some aspects are missing
- In vSAN, RAID 5/6 is controlled through the software using storage policy based management
- You can learn more about RAID 5/6 here
With Dedup, Compression and Erasure Coding, the effective capacity grows and you get more storage for the same cost and your data is protected. We just love how passionate these guys are about vSAN! Ready for a laugh while expanding your knowledge on VMware vSAN? Check out their clever four-minute video here.
