Vijay Ramachandran, Author at Virtual Blocks

Better Together: Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Virtual Volumes (VVol)

Vijay Ramachandran posted August 23, 2018

Recently there has been a lot of interest in VMware’s Virtual Volumes (VVols) technology as our shared- storage customers begin to understand the value of deploying vSphere policy-based storage management. As our customers have become more experienced with VVols, many have started to ask how they can implement business continuance and disaster recovery solutions using Read more...

Virtual SAN 6.2: The Evolution of Next-Gen HCI: Part 1 – Space Efficiency

Vijay Ramachandran posted February 23, 2016

With Virtual SAN 6.2, the VMware team delivered the biggest edition of the product since the initial release and the most awaited feature set to date – space efficiency. Virtual SAN 6.2 includes deduplication, compression, and erasure coding. In this post, I’d like to dive a little deeper into each of these features and provide Read more...

Virtual SAN Certification & VCG Update

Vijay Ramachandran posted March 25, 2015

The Virtual SAN product team is pleased to announce that last week we released new certified components (I/O controllers, SSDs and HDDs), new Ready Nodes and a new Hardware Quick Reference Guide for Virtual SAN 6.0 along with a new and improved VCG page. Please see updated links below: Updated Virtual SAN VCG Updated Virtual Read more...

VMware Virtual SAN and Scale IO: Fundamentally Two Different Approaches to Software-Defined Storage

Vijay Ramachandran posted December 19, 2014

There’ s a lot of buzz and excitement around Software-Defined Storage (SDS) and hyper-converged storage solutions. Particularly around VMware’s recently introduced product: VMware Virtual SAN. VMware Virtual SAN is seeing tremendous traction in the market since its release. After only two full quarters of availability, we already have many hundreds of customers happily running a variety Read more...