With 5 minutes on the clock – it's time for another "Feature In Five"! If you joined us last time, we video-profiled SQL Cluster on vSAN; in this edition, we'll get the inside scoop on vVols Space Reclamation. Let's get started! Today, our experts – Cody Hosterman and Jason Massae – take a closer look Read more...
This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast it's all about Home Labs. Our good friend William Lam has been aggregating an amazing collection of Home Labs in the IT Community. On this episode we welcome William, Max Abelardo and Johan van Amersfoort do discuss this new Home Labs aggregated list and things to consider when Read more...
Ensure your data when a host is in maintenance mode What happens when you place a host from a vSAN cluster in maintenance mode? Let’s dive in and give some insights on this matter, especially as there have been a few changes in the way vSAN handles this in recent versions. First and foremost, I Read more...
This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we kick off a new series entitled vSAN Deconstructed. In this series, we drill down to individual parts of vSAN and dive a little deeper. Kicking off this new series we start with the topic of vSAN Space Efficiency. In this episode, we take a closer look at Deduplication Read more...
Delivering the highest levels of performance in a data center is a challenge that has many facets. Determining which discrete hardware or software component is the most important, or a potential bottleneck is difficult to answer because all of the variables have an indelible tie to one another. This is one of the reasons why Read more...
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...
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...
VMware is pleased to announce that vSAN, the only vSphere-native storage software, is a finalist in Storage Magazine’s Product of the Year competition for the newly created Hyper-converged and composable infrastructure category. We believe vSAN was chosen in part because of our significant investments in supporting cloud-native applications, enhancing vSAN performance and intelligent operations. According to Read more...
As GSS’ most common storage issue, iSCSI Port Binding seems to be a pain point for many customers. Why is this— why so many calls and misconfigurations? I did a test session breaking out the iSCSI section from Cody Hosterman and my Core Storage Best practices session from VMworld, and I was amazed at the attendance! Read more...
Among the types of resources that administrators manage, storage may be the most challenging. The demand often increases beyond forecasted levels and addressing the matter with older architectures typically meant adding large capital costs and complexity. Space efficiency and storage reclamation techniques can potentially delay when capacity thresholds are met, but eventually, storage capacity concerns Read more...
