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vSAN Performance Metrics

Monitoring vSAN Performance

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Determining the root cause of performance issues in any environment can be a challenge, but with environments running dozens, if not hundreds of virtual workloads, pinpointing the exact causes, and understanding the options for mitigation can be difficult for even the experienced administrator. Since a vSAN cluster is made up of locally-attached disks, there are Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 140: Back to Basics vSphere Networking

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Continuing the “Back to Basics” series, this week we welcome back GSS Escalation Engineer Broc Yanda to discuss vSphere networking. Broc explains how to get the best performance out of vSphere hosts networking, failover, and other common networking misconceptions. Follow Broc on twitter. Check out John and Broc’s VMworld session Top 10 things to know Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast ep 139: The Best of 2019

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This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we look back on the best of 2019 and present the first annual SpeakEasy Awards. A few of the SpeakEasy winners are listed below: Best sound byte of 2019 It was no surprise that “LUNs Suck” was a crowd favorite. We brought Ken Werneburg on to discuss his Read more...

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

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Oracle and VMware have announced their collaboration to help joint customers run deployments on Oracle’s cloud without rearchitecting applications or operations. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we discuss the announcement with VMware’s Don Sullivan and Oracle’s G Ruiz and Faisal Hasan. We also spoke to Sudhir Balasubramanian about Oracle RAC on vSAN, changes Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 136: Spatial Computing

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One of the more interesting displayed at VMworld 2019 is a VMware project called VXR. Project VXR is focused on several technologies relating to displaying and manipulating digital information in spatially contextual ways. VMware is calling this Spacial Computing. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Project lead Matt Coppinger and Alan Renouf to Read more...

A Closer Look at vSAN Snapshots

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A frequent conversation I have with customers is how vSAN snapshots differ from standard VMFS Snapshots. In this post, I want to identify the architectural differences and how they significantly enhance vSAN performance when compared to previous virtual machine snapshot implementations. vmfsSparse Snapshots vmfsSparse, commonly referred to as the redo log format, is the original Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 135: Nano Edge Computing

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Edge computing and IoT are playing a key role in transforming our world. Today, organizations in all industries are looking to leverage data originating at the Edge combined with machine learning, analytics and artificial intelligences to help improve operations, become more agile, and to capture next-generation business opportunities. To ensure success, organizations require solutions for the Edge Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast Ep 134: Expert Panel

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Last week at VMworld Europe the vSpeaking Podcast welcomed the Expert Panel (Duncan Epping, Frank Denneman, William Lam and Ken Werneburg) to discuss the shifting IT landscape. Topics discussed 1. ROBO aka “the edge” is being redefined 2. Kubernetes for everyone? 3. What are the customer conversations these days? Links Mentioned Video: Intro from VMware COO Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast ep 133: VMworld Conversations

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This week the Virtually Speaking Podcast is heading to Barcelona for VMworld 2019 and we hope to see you there. Whether you’re going or not we think you will enjoy this compilation of great conversations we had at VMworld US a few weeks back. In this episode we discuss BitFusion with Niels Hagoort and Justin Read more...

vSpeaking Podcast ep 132: Designing and Sizing HCI

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions have been all the rage in the datacenter but when it comes to design and sizing, it’s easy to make some of the same mistakes when moving from physical to virtual. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome VMware’s Matt Northam to help us understand how to assess your Read more...