In the first of the SPBM series, we talked about Tag based Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM). Next, in the series, we will review how you can manage Virtual Volumes (VVols) using SPBM. If you are unfamiliar with VVols, take a look at Storagehub for an overview and more details on what and how Read more...
A stalwart of the Dallas, Texas health care community, Parkland Health & Hospital System has grown to be one of the largest public hospital systems in the country. Parkland is the primary teaching hospital for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Averaging more than 1 million patient visits annually, the hospital has more than Read more...
As one of the top public research universities in the U.S., the University of Minnesota relies on its IT department to provide computing power and ingenuity to drive its mission. VMware vSAN is an integral part of several key IT projects. The first hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) project for the university was to support the Northern Lights Read more...
VMworld 2018 US is a wrap. What a week it has been. From the announcements (see below) to great sessions, networking, and for the Virtually Speaking Podcast crew, lots of great conversations. There is no possible way to recap everything that happened this past week in one episode but we tried our best to cram Read more...
By Paul Miller, HPE VP portfolio Marketing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Tom Herrmann, VP Global Strategic Alliances, VMware Customers tell us their top challenge is to deliver innovation fast enough while controlling cost and risk. This is especially acute when they have to do that across hybrid cloud while trying to ensure security, compliance, Read more...
One of the fastest growing classes of applications running on VMware’s HCI offering (vSphere and vSAN) is next-gen applications, also known as cloud-native apps (CNA). These applications are typically containerized, comprise of many micro-services, they are distributed and often implement their own availability and fault-tolerance features. Running containers on top of virtual machines is not Read more...
Technical writing is writing done for the purpose of educating, informing or directing someone on how to do something. You can find information on VMware technology on official sites like StorageHub, VirtualBlocks, or docs.vmware.com, or you can read the 100+ personal blogs. In addition, there are many publications covering the various VMware technologies. This week on Read more...
Seven technology leaders, all in one place. Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream and of course VMware. With a line up like that its no wonder Dell Technologies is among Fortune’s most admired companies. A few weeks back we had the opportunity to sit down with the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell to hear his thoughts Read more...
vSAN is a scale-out, software-defined storage platform that is the key component of VMware’s Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) offerings, on premises and on VMware Cloud on AWS. vSAN is an enterprise-grade storage product that offers a number of features to ensure the integrity, security and resilience of data. Since the first generally available version of the Read more...
No Problem extending VM disks past 2TB, just upgrade to vSphere 6.5 or above! Many IT administrators have run into the issue of not being able to hot-extend a virtual disk past 2TB without first having to power off the VM. This can be a significant impact on business and may well result in disruptions Read more...
