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3 Million Reasons Why All-Flash Virtual SAN is Business Critical Ready

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I’m pleased to offer a guest post from one of our highly-valued partners on a number of initiatives, including Virtual SAN and vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO): SanDisk. This post talks about new reference architectures and solutions that SanDisk has built—in collaboration with VMware and other partners—to demonstrate how all-flash Virtual SAN systems are business Read more...

Virtual SAN licensing and Packaging for Virtual SAN 6.1

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Over the last couple of weeks we have received various questions on Virtual SAN licensing and Packaging for Virtual SAN 6.1. A lot of the questions were around the “ROBO” and the “Stretched Cluster” use case. We are hoping that the below table will clarify any confusion / questions you may have. Before you go Read more...

Virtual Volumes with Fujitsu ETERNUS Storage

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In another of the series of Virtual Volume information from our partners, today I am pleased to offer a post by Manuel Lange, product manager for the ETERNUS storage systems at Fujitsu.  Thank you Manuel for the material, our customers always appreciate the details on how things work in real implementations! Read more...

Ready for Any VMworld Europe?

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As you know, VMworld Europe 2015 is returning to Barcelona, Spain on October 12-15. The Storage and Availability solutions team is looking forward to seeing many of you in a few weeks. We wanted to take this opportunity to welcome you to Barcelona once again and thank you customers and partners for being an integral Read more...

Help us with the future direction of SIOC

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Storage I/O Control (SIOC for short) has always been one of my favorite core storage features in vSphere. It was introduced way back in version 4.1, and has been instrumental in helping us address the pesky “noisy neighbor” virtual machine problem. These are virtual machines that from time to time generate a huge amount of Read more...

VMworld Recap: What’s New in Storage & Availability

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VMworld 2015 US offered another strong performance for storage and availability solutions. The conference was flooded with more than 23,000 attendants eager to hear about the latest solutions VMware was cooking. If you attended the conference, you know that the message was loud and clear: One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device. The VMware Storage and Read more...

Stretch Across Metro, Replicate Across Geo… Go VSAN!

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  This week I was talking to a customer and they were wondering if it would be possible to both stretch VSAN across metro distance and at the same time replicate VMs to a third site, geo distance. I realized it isn’t something we have really spoken about so far, but it actually was part of our Read more...

EMC Storage and Virtual Volumes

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In another guest post, Daniel Chiu, a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at EMC will offer us an insight into using Virtual Volumes with their newly announced vVols initiatives, particularly in the VNX platform. Really appreciate the technical details in this post! —– Curious how the EMC storage systems will integrate with VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols)?  Well, the Read more...

Talk Storage with the Pros – Join #VSANchat 9/22!

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Are you in search of a radically simple, enterprise-class shared storage solution for hyperconverged infrastructure optimized for vSphere? Your search ends today. VMware Virtual SAN 6.1 has arrived.     With that, the Virtual SAN team would like to invite you to our #VSANchat on 9/22! This will be a discussion featuring VMware Virtual SAN experts Read more...

SAP IQ Performance Study on VMware Virtual SAN

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One of the primary goals of the Storage and Availability team at VMware is to validate business critical application running on Virtual SAN continuously. It is of the utmost importance for us to deliver the necessary information to customers, so they feel confident about the storage platform they are considering or plan to use to Read more...